By Quentin Gordon-Smith Last week the East High basketball team played a game at Franklin, and we were very skeptical about it. Sometime last week there was an incident about a shooting at Franklin. It was the talk of the town. Then it became an outbreak when people started to see the video of the shooting at the school. One kid hid behind two girls in fear for his life while the other person was at gunpoint range and fired shots. Thank god the person missed and nobody was harmed. We didn’t know if the game was still on because of that incident, people were talking about canceling the game. Then we got the news that the game was still on and we were going to Franklin. Overall the basketball game was a success; East won the game and no harm was caused to anybody but, it made players concerned. What changes are schools making to prevent things like that from happening? Are they increasing security? What are schools doing to make a change to keep students and staff? East High Athletic Director Eric Robinson states, “police are present at schools and they have radios to communicate with them if they need any help and they are here from the start of the school day to the end of the school day. Also increased neighborhood patrol at dismissal to prevent any violence.” This should help. But is it really enough?
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Lynn Girven
1/31/2023 03:47:33 pm
I know, Quentin. I also wonder about this. Perhaps this issue is systemic to the problems in the community, that really needs to be addressed.
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