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Seattle school board hears emotional public testimony on student safety, ethnic studies and support services
Summary
At its Feb. 11 meeting, the Seattle School Board heard extended public testimony after two students were killed near school grounds. Parents, students and teachers pressed for stronger campus safety measures, trauma-informed services, cameras and mandatory ethnic-studies instruction.
Seattle Public Schools’ board on Feb. 11 heard more than an hour of emotional public testimony focused on student safety, trauma-informed supports and ethnic-studies curriculum following the deaths of two students near school grounds.
Parents described children returning to class frightened and disoriented. "Student safety is not only physical, it's emotional," parent Liz Petersen told the board, urging "strengthen[ed] real gun and campus safety measures," installation of promised cameras and expanded counseling and…
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