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Originally Posted by OZ_341
Our last year in Atlanta 2010, we were approached 3 times by different characters on the street. All 3 were dangerous situations. I grew up in Philly, so I know the difference.
The last incident happened about 5 blocks from the CNN Center, when two nuts with a Taser approached our group. We circled the wagons and silently stood our ground, so they got bored and left. I swore right then that we would never return to Atlanta as a team. I am ultimately responsible for ensuring the safety of my students.
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You think any city is completely safe? Everybody has different experiences. We never had a problem in Atlanta, but the second we got to St. Louis (quite literally) in 2011 we felt completely insecure based on the number of "characters" that had approached the team.
Here in our little quaint city of Morgantown, I've had some very interesting and scary interactions, but does that mean that Morgantown is a bad place and completely unsafe? No, it doesn't.
The point is, ANY large city is going to have crime, and logistics in such cities as far as keeping the kids safe is going to be extremely difficult. Yes, some cities are better than others (I will never take a group of high school students to NYC, for example, not because of the crime, but other complications I have experienced).
Each and every one of us has had different experiences. Some of us have had problems in STL and not in ATL, and some have had exactly the opposite. If everybody had similar instances in the same city EVERY time they were there, that would be a different story.