Dear RESMS Par­ents and Guardians,

I am a con­cerned com­mu­ni­ty mem­ber and par­ent of a stu­dent at RESMS. ICE has stepped up oper­a­tions in Seat­tle with North and South King Coun­ty being impact­ed the most by them. Abduc­tions have occurred along Auro­ra and just a few blocks from the school. A few of us par­ents have decid­ed to estab­lish an ICE Watch school patrol. This is a parent/community orga­nized and dri­ven vol­un­teer ini­tia­tive! It is not a Seat­tle Pub­lic Schools ini­tia­tive.

Par­ent and school com­mu­ni­ties have recent­ly estab­lished ICE Watch school patrols at oth­er schools with­in the dis­trict and there is a need for one at Eagle Staff.

The pur­pose of these ICE Watch school patrols is to imme­di­ate­ly doc­u­ment and report any sight­ings of ICE that are in the imme­di­ate vicin­i­ty of the school. If you have Rapid Response train­ing or are will­ing to attend a Rapid Response train­ing, please con­sid­er vol­un­teer­ing a cou­ple hours of time in the week to pro­vide eyes on the ground and alert sup­port for our RESMS stu­dents, staff, fam­i­lies, and com­mu­ni­ty. We are empha­siz­ing that this is the pri­ma­ry pur­pose of the ICE Watch school patrol and thus min­i­mal inter­ac­tions with stu­dents com­ing to and from RESMS is expect­ed to best ensure child safe­ty pro­to­cols are fol­lowed and to main­tain the focus on the pur­pose of the patrol. The aim is ensure our pres­ence is sup­port­ive, rather than dis­tract­ing.

To share your inter­est and avail­abil­i­ty for join­ing the RESMS vol­un­teer school patrol kind­ly com­plete the fol­low­ing sign up form: https://bit.ly/RESMSpatrol

 

Please send your ques­tions to resmsschoolpatrol@gmail.com.