The San Francisco School Sacrificed to Equity

Every morning on their way to school, students at Marshall Elementary School in San Francisco’s Mission District are forced to sidestep clouds of meth and fentanyl smoke, as well as human faeces. The Inner Mission is a neighbourhood plagued by street addiction, homelessness, and untreated mental illness. Emily Glasner, a Marshall mom, told me about the time someone jumped out from an alley screaming at her, “I’m going to kill you”, while she was walking to school with her 10-year-old son. Now, her son has nightmares about being attacked by people on the street.