Would your newspaper be interested in a story that needs to be published? This is a problem long overdue that requires resolution.

Cascade Middle School has a traffic mess when 700 students emerge after the school day ends, with eight school buses and 50 parents’ vehicles converging along two-lane 10th Avenue Southwest between Southwest 112th and Southwest 114th streets.

Parents are parking in front of fire hydrants, on 10th Avenue Southwest -- causing one-lane traffic, and in resident’s driveways. Well, you get the picture.

Students run across the street to their parents’ autos and other parents jockey to get as close to the entrance of the school as possible. It is an accident or a fatality just waiting to happen as there seems to be no enforcement to control the traffic.

My concern is for the safety of these children as the parents with their poor driving habits are not thinking clearly of the circumstances they are causing or the danger to students -- even their own.

The lackluster commitment of the Highline School District to resolve this is very concerning.

I wrote to the Superintendent of the Highline School District on Dec. 12 pertaining to the above. And several follow up letters since that time. The short unresponsive emails from the assistant superintendent were quite discouraging.

I received a phone call yesterday from the Highline School District to meet on April 19 with the assistant superintendent at Cascade, and after this length of time I see little hope of resolution.

Dick Thurnau

North Highline