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Growing violence a trend?
Are West Chester and Liberty townships becoming more urban?
Students at Lakota schools have sometimes the unfair reputation as being rich kids, but is that trend shifting? Often people assume there are no students of need in the district. Are those kids getting overlooked?
According to officials from Butler County Head Start, Lakota will add a third class to its program to accommodate the growing population of impoverished Lakota students. Those who qualify come from households with an income of $17,000 or less.
How about the crime increase? Do you think the security at the schools is enough to deal with the growing population? Do you think neighborhoods are getting more dangerous?
Last week a home invasion occured in a Liberty Twp. apartment complex, following a fight that occured in the high school. Cheryl Sims, charged for the in-school altercation, said she couldn’t believe a home invasion could take place in the area, especially by the 17-year-old who she said attacked her and the girl’s mother Antina Howard. “It’s out of control,” Sims said. Sims said her family and friends have barred their doors and locked their windows, and she believes the fight at the school was a culmination of harassment and bullying, which included the egging of her home over spring break. Sims met that morning with administrators and her daughter, trying to address the bullying issue, when minutes after the meeting ended, the initial fight occurred. “Kids are scared of her,” Sims said. “I was just trying to restrain her. You restrain children. You don’t fight them back.” Attorney Dwayne Sims said he blames district employees for handling the situation poorly and thinks the schools need better security. “The harassment had been occurring at the school,” he said. “They were forewarned about it.”
I live in Liberty Township, and if I didn’t read police reports on a weekly basis, I would have no idea anything “dangerous” ever happened near my home. I think my community is a perfectly safe area with very few problems. Am I naive?
My small country school had its problems just like Lakota or any other school, but as a high school student, the small incidences didn’t interrupt my daily life. I never felt unsafe. I doubt Lakota students feel unsafe.
What do you think? Is the area changing, or are we as the media just making a mole hill out of nothing?
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