The Enough is Enough program seeks to raise awareness, connect families to resources, and elevate student voices

An empty classroom at Sumner Academy of Arts and Science on July 29, 2021, in Kansas City, Kansas.
An empty classroom at Sumner Academy of Arts and Science on July 29, 2021, in Kansas City, Kansas. The district has a program called Enough is Enough with the goal of preventing student violence and deaths. (Chase Castor/The Beacon)

Sharita Hutton said she left journalism because it was difficult to cover deaths so often.

But during the 2019-20 school year, her first in a new job with the Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools communications department, Hutton wrote 23 letters to the school community to tell them that yet another student had died. Eleven of the deaths were caused by gun violence.

The district’s response, launched in October 2020, is called Enough is Enough, or Ya Basta in Spanish. The initiative seeks to raise awareness of problems and resources, gather input from students and the broader community, and address some of the risk factors leading to deaths.

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