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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The IS and the new principal were outside greeting students as they arrived at the school. Compare that to months and months of no one bothering to be there for the kids when they arrived. The one man assigned to the entrance just played on his phone the entire time, sitting inside.

This is not a big thing. But it is telling. Do I care about my kid being greeted? Yes, but mainly because it is correlated with a lot of other things I really care about but cannot observe as easily. [/quote]

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Johnson was asked, time and time again, to have staff greet the students each day to guide them into the school. It is a ritual worth practicing: each student learns "hey, I see you. I'm glad that you're here. Let's go have a good day together." Johnson had no interest. He didn't even bother to make sure Patterson was upstairs, albeit on a chair on his phone.

Likewise, he was instructed time and time again (I can point to personal communications from back in February on this) to have staff out front of Safeway after school. He never bothered to do this until the fight videos started circulating, and even then he didn't do it with any reliability. During the fight two weeks ago, he was standing on the other side of the street, not at the bus stop / safeway as the commotion unfolded. He appears in the background in one of the videos.

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This is me again. Staff were sometimes present at Safeway. I don't want to give the impression that they were never there. But not reliably and certainly not in any manner to prevent it from become a known fighting hotspot after school.

If you see the one video from March, you can see a half-dozen kids with their phones already out while the one subject approaches the other subject. EVERYONE knew the fight was about to occur. How a fight still manages to occur in such a situation is beyond me. 
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