Children Fear For Safty In Immigrant Neighbourhood

The London Free Press published a very worrying article about the gang related violence and crime taking place in the Kipps Lane area of London.

The concerns of these kids nearly seem unrealistic considering their only in the 5th and 6th grade, but once I read that it was in the Kipps area I understood.

That part of the city is a dump. It's been taken over by immigrants and other non-Whites of the city. It is home to low income White families too, many who are just as bad as the immigrants and other non-Whites in the area.

Pupils voice fears of a neighbourhood

By IAN GILLESPIE

...The comments came Monday afternoon in a Grade 5/6 class at Northbrae public school, just east of Adelaide Street, between Kipps Lane and Huron Street.

The pupils recently finished studying a curriculum unit called The Power of One. They read about people who made a difference in the world -- people such as Martin Luther King, Anne Frank and Rosa Parks.

But teacher Gloria Jenkins says that when the pupils finished their assignments, they decided they wanted to do something more. They wanted to tell people about the problems -- like violence, drugs and graffiti -- plaguing their neighbourhood.....

[....]the problems in the neighbourhood -- an area populated with many immigrant and low-income families -- have recently increased.