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Downtown Baltimore To Get Massive Surveillance Network
An anonymous reader writes "The Baltimore Sun has an article on the new 24-hour security cameras to be installed downtown and in the Inner Harbor. 'Under the Inner Harbor plan, the cameras would be able to transmit images to helicopters and, eventually, police cruisers....' How long until that ability is either abused or hijacked?"
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Why are four schools crammed into one building with no A/C, known arsonist children, smoke damage from arson, moldy water-damaged carpeting, children carrying firearms, and children allowed to behave any way they want to with zero threat of every being suspended?
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Four Schools Close Due To Fire In Building
POSTED: 12:48 p.m. EDT May 20, 2004
UPDATED: 12:49 p.m. EDT May 20, 2004
Story by http://theWBALChannel.com
BALTIMORE -- The Baltimore City public school system closed four schools early Thursday afternoon after fire was discovered in the
building housing all the schools.
Samuel L. Banks High School, Abbottston Elementary School, the Stadium School and Highlandtown Elementary School #237, which are all housed
in the same building at 2500 East Northern Parkway, are closing immediately due to a fire in the basement. All students and staff were evacuated.
Fire crews are still on the scene in north Baltimore. There are no reports of injuries.
Stay with TheWBALChannel.com and 11 News for the latest news updates.
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On June 3 the students rioted in the cafeteria turning over the long, heavy tables with attached benches in the presense of the principle and vice principle who were unable to stop them. I could not even find a news story about this one.
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http://www.ebguide.com/seleadarchive.html
School 237, tired of waiting
School promised meeting, didn't deliver, say parents
by Mary Helen Sprecher
newsroom@baltimoreguide.com
We're still waiting.
Parents of students at Highlandtown Elementary School 237 are sending the message loud and clear to the Baltimore City Public School system. The parents, whose children have been bused to a BCPS facility in Northeast Baltimore since 2001 while repairs were supposed to take place at PS 237, were promised a meeting with school officials by early December. Chief among their complaints are the lack of progress on the original building (on which repairs have not yet started), and the problems with the children's interim school facility.
As students enter the second semester of the 2003-2004 school year without the promised meeting, the unrest is growing.
"The parents are getting really angry," says Virginia Glass, president of School 237's PTA. "We're being lied to, lied to, lied to again. There's no meeting. I want a meeting. I demand a meeting. My child deserves a meeting."
School officials claim that a meeting is in the cards, but that its scheduling had to be delayed while the system dealt with its financial crisis and widespread staff layoffs.
"That's not satisfying to me," says Glass. "I mean, come on now."
Highlandtown 237 was originally closed in January 2001 because of the need for widespread renovations, Carlton Epps, COO of Baltimore City Public Schools, told the Guide in November of 2003.
"Generally, we can do a renovation more quickly and at less cost if a building is unoccupied," said. "The idea was to take about two years, maybe two and a half years."
Students were moved to 2500 E. Northern Parkway, a building that houses a professional development center as well as several other schools. From the beginning, there were complaints.
Parents disliked having their children attending a school that was located so far outside their neighborhood. Getting their children out of bed earlier, they said, was difficult. They also complained about problems with buses that came too late to get the children to Northern Parkway in a timely manner.
Many parents who did not have cars also found the new school's location to be a problem. In the event of an emergency such as a sick child who had to be taken