Earlier this week, Riverside University High School students had a confrontation with police after dismissal. Nine students were arrested and police officers received broken bones during the confrontation.
Police Chief Ed Flynn said officers were monitoring the area near the school because of fights there recently.
Yesterday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that police are also monitoring dismissal at Bradley Tech High School.
Milwaukee police are monitoring dismissal at Bradley Tech High School today based on information police have received about the need for a presence during this last week of school.
Spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz said there is "no giant-size presence" but noted, "we have received some information that it might be a good idea for us to monitor dismissal. In the last few days of school we know that young people can get excited."
...She said, "We're going to monitor dismissal at Bradley Tech in the next couple of days to make sure all of the students exit safely and they start their summer out the right way."
It's so frustrating that so much money is poured into Milwaukee Public Schools. Students have the opportunity to receive an education. It's there for the taking; but rather than seizing that opportunity, some students are more concerned with fighting than studying.
What's worse, these are the "good kids," the ones still attending school.
It's very discouraging.
There also was an incident yesterday at an MPS elementary school.
An elementary school on Milwaukee's northwest side was on lockdown this afternoon after staff reported shots fired outside Richard Kluge Elementary shortly before noon.
There were no children outside at the time the shots were heard at 5760 N. 67th St., according to MPS spokeswoman Roseann St. Aubin. There are no reports of any injuries at the school, which enrolls students in kindergarten through grade 5.
Milwaukee police are on the scene investigating. A police District 4 sergeant said today that officers have confirmed that shots were fired at a nuisance property about two blocks from the school. Preliminary information indicates that no one was injured.
St. Aubin said that children were moved from the cafeteria - where some were having lunch - away from windows facing the playground to the gym for safety when the shots were heard. Staff initially believed they occurred on the playground, however, police said they did not.
"It was described as some sort of neighborhood disturbance," St. Aubin said of the shots fired.
This was a neighborhood disturbance, not children or their parents firing shots. Still, it's upsetting to think that precautions needed to be taken to protect elementary school kids from gunfire during the school day.
It's a war zone.
What will happen to the children when school is out for the summer?
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