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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Guys, "one" crossing guard does not help a child cross something like Georgia, or Alaska, or Michigan Colorado or Kansas or Piney Branch, or North Capitol, or any other number of busy streets. And when your child is the only one walking... The issue is compounded. It's not just about cars. Its about peers, it's about the kind of Independence that is formed from having other kids on the street too. Maybe we picked the wrong neighborhood, but, like I said, I look at dtss and I see kids hanging out. Learning how to be independent. I deal with our life in dc and everyone is swept away in their cars from activity to activity. It was cute when we had a six year old; but with a ten year old, I can't stand it.

And the thought of "gangs" in dtss makes me lol. Oh, I'm sure there's some. But most of the rumor about that is just a lot of Bethesda seeing a lot of brown.[/quote]

There aren't gangs roaming downtown SS. There are gangs in and around the apartment buildings on upper Piney Branch, New Hampshire Ave, etc. And some school boundaries, especially middle and high school, include children from DT SS and these areas. That's where the talk comes from.

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It isn't like large gang fights and problems with teenage mobs in DTSS are unheard of or at the flagship High School. Hell there was talk about a curfew it got so bad a few years ago. 
[url]http://kutv.com/news/nation-world/gang-rivalry-sparks-massive-brawl-at-md-high-school[/url]
[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/concerns-about-silver-spring-spur-consideration-of-curfew/2011/07/26/gIQAXiYobI_story.html[/url]
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