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joso
Citizen
Username: Joso
Post Number: 87
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2003 - 2:01 pm: | 
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To the Trustees:
Below are two messages excerted from the Education thread. The first was from me, the second a follow-up response. Are the South Orange Police aware of this type of behavior? I do not know if the woman involved has reported this to the police, but either way they should work with Maplewood Police, stake out the area, and arrest these bums, and perhaps lead to their expulsion from the scool.
Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2003 - 10:08 am:
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I was walking our dog down Academy and was stopped by a woman who asked me to sign a petition to the superintendant and the principal of Columbia. Her home and her person have been terrorized by large groups of students leaving the high school at the end of the day, walking towards SO Ave. Perhaps if these kids were brought to task in school, they would leave with less of a sense that they are free to do as they please, without fear of sanction. If detention is not the answer, supension and expulsion can be. Ending the reign of terror inside the school is the responsibility of the administration. Ending it on the streets needs to be that of the Police.
J. Crohn
Citizen
Username: Jcrohn
Post Number: 177
Registered: 3-2003
Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2003 - 10:46 am:
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Well, I signed that petition, Joso, because it was brought to me by one of my neighbors.
An immigrant, alone at home with her baby during the day, she's frightened by mobs of kids who come up from the school to stand on her minuscule lawn, drop trash, remove to neigboring yards the landscaping stones in the small garden she has made, or use them to smash the corners off the steps her husband just installed on the porch last year. When she begs them not to vandalize her property, they sneer at her and aggressively challenge her to call the cops. She's scared that if she does, they'll come back later to get even.
These kids also have a game of walking north from CHS up Academy in troops horizontally deployed across the sidewalk and into the street, deliberately blocking traffic. But usually they eschew the sidewalk altogether. And when they meander across streets, they jaywalk in groups, spreading out at the longest possible angle, again with the obvious intent to block traffic. For a driver, the situation is enraging no less than it's terrifying--the last thing one wants is to turn a corner and run into a clump of adolescents acting like herds of wayward goats.
The street-mob phenomenon seems to peak at the beginning and toward the end of the year. I thought maybe this year, between the police and the school, someone had finally got a handle on things, as the obnoxiousness seemed to wane for a while. But after speaking to my neighbor about what she and others have had to endure this year, and seeing for myself an increase in traffic-blocking during the last few weeks, I realize now I was mistaken. |
mrosner
Citizen
Username: Mrosner
Post Number: 436
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2003 - 3:06 pm: |
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The police are aware and said they were going to take appropiate steps.
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joso
Citizen
Username: Joso
Post Number: 88
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2003 - 3:49 pm: |
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I am glad to hear that they are on top of this. There is no reason this type of behavior needs to happen considering the kids take the same routes, at the same time of day, everyday. |
wnb
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Username: Wnb
Post Number: 41
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, June 15, 2003 - 9:35 am: |
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A few months ago I had a pretty large bunch of HS kids running around on my front lawn, generally making a lot of noise, not respecting "boundaries," wrestling with each other, etc. I walked out the front door and told them to get the hell off of my property. I was quite surprised when they said "Yes, sir" and "We're sorry, sir" and moved along.
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