The protest comes one week after a 17-year-old student was shot while at a bus stop outside the school.
SEATTLE — Dozens of parents protested outside of Garfield High School concerned about ongoing gun violence.“We just wanted to get out here and make it feels safer," said Karen Emmerman Mazner, one of the organizers."For one day maybe everyone in the Garfield building can walk out to the bus stop and not feel afraid."
“We get text from our kids at school saying, 'Hey I’m in shelter in place I was out on the field for lunch there were shots adjacent to the field and we all go pulled inside,'" said Kathleen Lendvay, who has a sophomore at Garfield High School."You don’t get used to it." “Six times now we’ve been in the case where we’re getting a message from the school message system or from other parents saying there’s shelter in place or shots around the school,” Lendvay said.
“I would love to see Seattle Public Schools to better fund groups out here like Community Passageways,” Emmerman Mazner said.
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