South Portland school forced to move over tension between protesters & ICE, says director

The Interim Executive Director of the Cottonwood School located next to the ICE facility in Southwest Portland says they’re relocating due to deployments of gas against protesters that has been seeping into their playground.

“Well, in terms of our impact, we have been impacted mostly by chemical weapons that are being used against protesters in the vicinity of our school. So daily, we were finding munitions on our play yard, we were getting footage in the evenings of green gases, and gases being used near our gardens and enveloping our area,” said Laura Cartwright, the Interim Executive Director of the Cottonwood School.

The director says that students started un-enrolling from the school, and that parents were deciding to send their kids back to their neighborhood schools…

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