ReformK12.com: Not In My Back Yard!

Not In My Back Yard!

April 15, 2004

dancing girl at a strip club

Residents in one big American city are up in arms over a proposal to build a certain facility in their neighborhood:

"This will be a total nightmare for all of us," resident Gary Grisafi wrote in a letter protesting the [...] proposal to build on a 21-acre site . . . Grisafi said the [facility] would bring myriad problems including "fights, violence, drug activity, litter, noise, vandalism, loitering on our streets and steps, car and bus traffic, sex acts, no parking for residents."

Pop Quiz: The facility under consideration is:

A) A shopping mall

B) An amusement park

C) A minimum-security prison

D) A casino

E) A combination strip club / bar / adult bookstore

F) A public high school

The answer (of course) is F.

A new public high school is proposed for the Crescentville neighborhood in the "great northeast" of the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia.

But doesn't it say something about Philly high schools that they prompt fears of sex acts, drug activity and vandalism?

Not in my backyard, indeed.

Posted by ceb into Humor
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Comments

As an assistant principal at a suburban high school I have found that the neighborhood school tends to be the safest area in the community. I work in a school with a small gang presence and you are a lot better off hanging out on campus than walking down to the local strip mall.

Dan Winters April 17, 2004 01:43 PM

Dan, your school's situation sounds like a case of effective leadership to me. There's no reason why city schools can't be the same. (Actually, I work at an inner-city school that is very safe, but I can't vouch for what happens outside the front door.)

ceb April 17, 2004 04:32 PM

Man, that guy on the left looks just like me... scary. By the way, I never go to places like that, it's bad for you.

David Ross April 18, 2004 10:57 PM