Students Endangered at Pike Street School
A concerned parent calls for the relocation of a primary school housed in a building where children must play on a busy, car-filled street.
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To the editor: I wish to call the attention of the school directors to a danger to which some of our school children are exposed. There are two stories in a building on Pike street used at present as public school rooms for a number of small children. The rooms face Pike street, and the children, when out between lessons, have no other place to play but the street, with its busy electric cars passing continually. That under these circumstances no accident has yet happened to any of the children is surprising. A few of the parents whose children visit these school rooms are filled with anxiety for the welfare of those dear little ones. The question therefore arises if the school directors will not look into this matter of unfit locations of these school rooms, and allay the fear of the parents and prevent danger to the children by selecting school rooms more fitting.
“The children, when out between lessons, have no other place to play but the street, with its busy electric cars passing continually.”
This letter highlights the persistent friction between urban infrastructure and public safety, a precursor to modern debates over 'Safe Routes to School' programs and pedestrian-friendly urban planning in downtown Seattle.
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