Safe Passage Routes "Put to Test"

Of course, they leave out the fact that most of the "safe passage" shootings are occurring at night when the schools are closed and the kids are home sleepi....we mean, getting shot on their own front porches:

• The eyes of the city were on Chicago Public Schools “Safe Passage” routes Monday morning as a 28-year-old man was shot along one of the routes and a 14-year-old boy was shot to death near another one, the day before school starts.
  
  The 14-year-old boy was shot and killed within a block of a welcoming elementary school, Melody Stem School , 3937 W. Wilcox. It’s at least the third fatal shooting along or near a Safe Passage route since mid-August.
  
  About 12:20 a.m. Sunday, the boy, Lavander Hearnes, was standing outside in the 4000 block of West Wilcox Street with several other people when he was shot, authorities said.
  
  He was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital at 9:04 a.m. Sunday, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office said.

Gee, another kid out past curfew.....seems like a trend.

In the meantime, how do you compete with neighborhood attitudes like this?

• At Melody Stem School, several parents didn’t seem overly alarmed at the news of the shooting.
  
  Some parents said shootings aren’t unexpected in the neighborhood, while others weren’t ready to judge Chicago Public Schools’ plans on the first day of school.
  
  “I don’t really feel too threatened,” said Vicki Brown, 29, a parent with two kids at Melody. “It’s a relative thing. You can’t control the violence.”
  
  Kaylyn Williams, the children’s father, agreed.
  
  “I feel the kids are relatively safe,” he said, as sirens wailed in the distance.
  

Words to live by....or die by we suppose.