Well that’s gross. That’s the kind of stuff you’d expect in San Francisco or Seattle, but I’m guessing this is all over in every larger city.

Makeshift homeless shelters causing serious safety concerns at McKinley School in Boston’s South End. See what we found on school grounds TONIGHT ON #Boston25 pic.twitter.com/KRIYBNOH4Q — Drew Karedes (@DrewKaredes) January 13, 2020







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In the school’s garden it didn’t take one of our crews long to find trash, condoms and other waste. It noticeably got worse as they walked through the school’s parking lot.

An environment where kids come to learn is supposed to be a safe place. That is why parents, staff and neighbors living near the McKinley School in Boston’s South End say they’re concerned about who else goes there at night to sleep. Neighbors say they’ve been noticing makeshift homeless camps forming at the first trace of nightfall in the school’s parking lot and garden behind the school. While the folks who sleep there are usually gone before kids arrive, the litter doesn’t always leave with them. “You don’t want fecal matter in a schoolyard,” said Jon Paul Prunier, a Boston resident. “They seem to be spreading out in our neighborhood a lot more, the school here, the park there, it’s startling.” Empty liquor bottles, needle caps and empty food containers are just some of what our crew saw as they walked around school property.

Yeah, seems like a problem. Also this is happening in the same area: