No Fence at Best Elementary After Two Children Abduction Attempts in December of 2021
The district has more police presence at Alief ISD School Board Meetings each month, to protect adults, than they do at Best Elementary to protect our children against a known threat of abduction.
Furthermore, the district has a chain link fence, 3,960 feet long (.75 of a mile), surrounding the entire new Alief Pre-K building on the corner of Bellaire and Howell Sugarland Rd., but won’t put a fence up at the front of Best Elementary School (Centre Parkway and Sugar Branch Dr), where the playground is to protect our kids. The width of that distance is 264 feet long (.05 of a mile).
On April 11, 2022, a teacher from Best Elementary, Marie Cortes, stated on Channel 13 News that she left the district due to safety concerns for staff and students, regarding the multiple child abduction attempts during recess at the campus playground during school hours.
Ms. Cortes and the parent of a student whom was attempted to be abducted came to the April 19, 2022 school board meeting and spoke to address the School Board Trustees and the Superintendent. The school district has done nothing to protect our kids since the two abduction attempts in December 2021, and the two patron presentations during the April 19, 2022 school board meeting; today is June 13, 2022 (more than 6 months later).
Nor was either of the incidents spoken of during the districts February 08, 2022 Safety and Security Meeting. Leadership Matters.
Damon Barone, Alief Parent, Taxpayer, and Alumnus