Less than 100 metres away from an Elmwood elementary school’s front door, several bike wheels and frames lie around a front yard with garbage piled high in a shopping cart near the home’s fence.

Parents and staff at River Elm School are concerned for student safety due to suspicious activity at the home.

One school staffer, who the Free Press is not naming, has witnessed trucks full with scrap metal, eavestroughs and bikes idle outside the home. He also saw what he believed to be drug deals on and near the property.

“It’s become this twisted joke among staff that all of this is happening and no one is doing anything about it,” he said. “It’s a huge blight on the neighbourhood.”

Some parents of students at the K-6 school declined to speak publicly, but said activity at the address has

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