SPECIAL EDUCATION / 3RD GRADERS / 4TH GRADERS:

WRITING QUESTION: What don't you like about your street or your neighborhood?

“I don't like cars when they come and go.” – Rowaida Al-Wagh

“Violence and gun shooting” – Kevin Melton, Jr.

“I don't like all the cars by my street.” – Amia Jamison

“Animals who eat our trash.” – Nathaniel Brown

“People get shot in my neighborhood, so that why me and my family are moving to a different neighborhood.” – Christiana Lee-Shay Williams

“What I don't like about my street is it has a dead end so I can't go far for a short cut.” – Christopher Mordica

“I get to play with my friend.” – Mackenzie Gallaty

“Shooting” – Rayvon Becoats

“I don't like when my neighborhood is really quiet all the time. I don't like when my neighborhood always have police and police cars.” – Jaylen Price

“People keep on fight and stealing from the stores.” – Karya Veal

“Nothing.” – Bri'Asia Bain

“I don't like people shooting other people.” – Franklin Allen

“The people who live by me cause trouble.” – Jaleel John Kelley

“People litter a lot in our neighborhood.” – Victory Phifer

“I don't like that my sidewalk in front of my house is cracked and the sidewalk pieces come off a lot.” – Nasjeria Thomas

“The people that cause trouble, the train y my house, people getting shot, braking out of jail, people cursing, people who have their music up very loud.” – Vanessa Richiez

“Sometimes during the year I hear gunshots.” – Aaliyah Ellison

“Abandoned houses.” – Amariana Williams

“I don't like when people take their dog and walk on our sidewalk and make it dirty.” – Bashra Albrati

“When my friends move.” – Dyemesheann Hoyle

“I don't like the gun shots I hear at night.” – Tabari Elerson

“Somebody have a gun.” – Lee Jackson

“Guns.” – Montae Terry

“I don't like that when I go to sleep I hear a train every night. I go to sleep and it wakes me up. And I don't like the abandoned houses next to my house because it seems scary at night.” – Jonah Kemp

“People try to break us apart and troublemakers.” – Alanna Smith

“There is too much gangsters and too much trouble.” – Jaden Starks

“The train wake me up at night.” – A'laryn Banks

– Simiyah Moore

“Stay late to the train comes by.” – Jaron Houston, Jr.

“It's a lot of fighting.” – Khalil Bashir

“I hate the dogs on my street.” – Jaryn Turner

“It is not big.” – Maurion Fransioli

“Gangbangers walking up and down the street laughing and look at people all crazy and dogs off the leash.” – Amina Smith

“There is nobody but adults.” – Kendi Perdue

“I hear gun shots in my neighborhood and I don't like that.” – Aidan Johnson

“I don't like my park.” – Imani Keyes

“It is too loud.” – Dejon Hogle

“The stop lights because it causes accidents. The concrete because it messes up cars, trucks, MTA buses.” – Maleah Nolen

“Too much violence.” – Kentrell Broadnax

“Too quiet.” – Reana Thompkins

“Neighbors.” – Deonna Morin

“What I don't like is the train. When I be sleep the train be beeping.” – London Thompson

“People breaking in houses and shooting.” – Demonte Thomas

“I don't like how the people from across the street always park their car in the street making it hard for our dad to pull out.” – Caitlyn Fordham

“Gun shot.” – TK Thomas

“Trash all over the streets. Hearing the train.” – Cierra Davis

“That we have like a thousand potholes.” – Joy Prince

“I do not like the river.” – Ja'Vontay Moore

“How neighborhood watchers peek in my window. Or how many gangsters walk in my neighborhood knocking on doors and running away.” – Nahemiah Brown

“That we have a raccoon house.” – Darsha'e Hubbard

“That so much people are out.” – Preslie Riggs

“Trains wake me up.” – Kaleb Crane

“When people shooting and that scares me and wakes me up.” – Kaleigh Smoots

“Noise.” – Sincere Mason

“There are bugs everywhere.” – Michael Harris

“Fire crackers pop at night.” – Jaylon Collins

“I hate the gunshots, fires, and my mom watching TV too loud.” – Ameerah Bashir

“There's people who get into accidents.” – McKenzie Montgomery

“Some houses.” – La'Ron Cooper