Students at Williamsburg Charter High School are circulating a petition for more communication with the NYPD; more violence interrupters in schools; more funding for on-site social workers and psychologists; and more year-round jobs for young people.
Donate NowStudents at a Brooklyn high school rallied for an end to gun violence this week, about a month afterhas dominated headlines in recent days, Williamsburg Charter High School students called for more attention to the gun violence that punctuates their daily lives but rarely makes national news.
Tucker remembers grabbing her coat to walk out the door when she and other students were told to go to the cafeteria for a lockdown. She said she wasn’t too alarmed until the lockdown ended, when police escorted her out, and she learned that she knew the people who were shot. Students and staff are circulating a petition that calls for more communication with the NYPD; more violence interrupters in schools; more funding for on-site social workers and psychologists; and more year-round jobs for young people. More than 1,400 people have already signed.
Multiple teens have been shot outside of city schools in recent months. Two were shot near different schools on the same day earlier in March — one in East Harlem and one on the Upper West Side. Another teen was shot outside Williamsburg Charter High School in December, and two were shot near a school about a mile away in February.
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