I grew up in a major city and was only mugged four times and assaulted (like hit or abused) four times by randos on the street before graduating high school, st

I grew up in a major city and was only mugged four times and assaulted (like hit or abused) four times by randos on the street before graduating high school, starting in second grade. All with racial overtones, very explicitly so on the assaults. Yet we (me, my parents, my educators) wouldn’t have dreamed of behaving like these school workers. I don’t think it’s the suburban white folks, though it might be. I think it’s people who buy into an everything is too dangerous mindset. That they go to suburbs is effect, not cause. Figured the author was a dude from the title, totally surprised it wasn’t. I too suffer from the fear that if I’m around anyone’s kids other than my own, especially at a park, I’m at risk.