Plan announced to support Seattle school safety and student mental health [Video]

The patience is wearing thin for some Seattle Public School parents as the new school year draws closer. For Jessica Marquardt, she wanted to see the plan to address safety across the district straight from the Superintendent Dr. Brent Jones and Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell.

“I’m cautiously optimistic.” she said following the meeting that took place at Rainier Beach High School Thursday Morning.

She questioned Harrell and Jones expressing the frustration she has heard from her daughter’s friends in the wake of the shooting that killed a 17-year-old student outside Garfield High School last June. Her daughter was at the playfield that day and heard the gunshots.

“A lot of feedback from the students was it didn’t feel good, it’s all performative, and it felt reactionary.” Marquardt said to the leaders, “A lot of kids asked where have these people been before today, before we had to lose one of …