Reply #173: The problems are community problems

[proud2BlibKansan]

I've taught in many of these kinds of communities. One summer I was at a school where not a day went by that one of the teachers' cars wasn't messed with - about one a week was stolen, we had breakins almost daily and slashed tires were frequent also. (This was before car alarms were common or inexpensive.) I finally began paying another teacher for a ride - her husband was unemployed and he took us both back and forth to school. I loved that school but I was very glad when that summer ended. And no, I would NOT have wanted to work there. You bet I would have used any advantage I had to transfer from there if I was there during the regular school year.

At another school, a local gang began breaking into our cars and the neighborhood set up a watch program for the school. They watched our parking lot and called the police when they saw the gang members anywhere near our cars. I gladly stayed there.

You bet something else is going on. That's a no brainer.