A gaping hole in school security or am I being an over reactive parent?

[Irving]

And what is going to happen when my kid has a question that I don't know the answer to?

[iamhunter]

And what is going to happen when my kid has a question that I don't know the answer to?

Textbooks, internet, friends, etc.

There were plenty of times my teachers didn't know the answers to my questions in both the University and high school setting.

And on a side note,

have you EVER had a question you couldn't find the answer to on the internet?

and I doubt your kids could pose any seriously challenging questions until high school at the minimum.

And by then you could hopefully build a strong enough intellectual discipline in them to counteract the flaws in the public school system.

[Backinblackrifles]

Looking back I would not have gone to public school if you paid me. All my public school friends are in drug rehab or prison. Home school is not hard I graduated at 16 with honors. If your kid can read they can be home schooled it is not your job to give them the answers it is your job to make sure they figure it out and do the work if teachers are simply giving kids the answers these days no wonder there is a STUPID problem with kids. It is your job as a parent to teach your child how to think unlike the schools that are now telling them what to think.

[Backinblackrifles]

Looking back I would not have gone to public school if you paid me. All my public school friends are in drug rehab or prison. Home school is not hard I graduated at 16 with honors. If your kid can read they can be home schooled it is not your job to give them the answers it is your job to make sure they figure it out and do the work if teachers are simply giving kids the answers these days no wonder there is a STUPID problem with kids. It is your job as a parent to teach your child how to think unlike the schools that are now telling them what to think.

FYI My Mother had a 3rd grade education.

[Backinblackrifles]

Another thing I am not socially challenged and neither are any of my other home school friends I have until recently had a full time job ever since I was twelve years old and was the only kid in the neighborhood that could have a real conversation with an adult. And if you don't want your kid to work there is still football, baseball, shooting sports, and so on that you can do with your kids. Another note My grandfather was the lead maintenance and structural engineer at a nuclear power plant for 40 years in south carolina and he can't read, Again I believe it is about teaching them how to think and find information rather than telling them what to think.

ALL of my siblings were home schooled My older brother is a chemist, My older sister is a engineer for lockheed martin, My younger brother is on his way to being a computer technician, and my younger sister is 5 she can read and is enjoying her childhood.

[SA Friday]

Based on a few studies done with pedophiles willing to talk about their pasts, they averaged around 12 molestations before being caught. They AVERAGED.

It's very simple. Any person in authority has an OBLIGATION to challange any stranger in a school. A teacher qualifies as a person in authority. She reacted wonderfully until she failed to challange the stranger and question who he was and why he was there. She felt uncomfortable enough to remove the child immediately, but not uncomfortable enough to question him? Epic failure...

Second mistake was not immediately contacting a law enforcement official. Sooner is better, period. Not calling at all? Seriously? That's one hell of an assumption of innocence with the livelyhood of people meeting the definition of diminished capacity. Yes, children have diminished capacity; they cannot defend themselves to the same level as a normally educated and matured adult. You HAVE to take this into account with security measures. If the stranger has a completely valid and innocuous reason for being there, the cops question him, determine he's not a threat, and everyone goes home after doing the right thing. If the stranger has NO valid reason for being there, and they can't prove he is doing anything wrong, Homie is going to at the very least get cataloged for a suspicious incident in a school. He pulls the same crap in Longmont a couple of months later... Time to start an investigation into his systemic desire to be in schools without a reason. This is simple pro-active law enforcement at this point. If they have a focus of suspicious activity, they can attempt to intervene before the molestation happens.

BTW, schools and prisons are both forms of a sociology theory called 'The Science of Dicipline' derived from a French Criminologist/Sociologist named Michael Foucault. It's a 5 point theory concerning instutionalized social structure, and is quite literally staple food at the doctoriate level in these fields. So complaining about turning schools into prisons is really kinda moot. They are essentially already the same. The only two differences between the them are schools let out their inmates on a daily basis, and schools utilize soft power instead of the hard power used in prisons. Not that long ago, hard power (corporal punishment) was being used in schools still and the differences were even less obvious.

[SA Friday]

BTW, my wife and I currently home school our 7 year old....

[Backinblackrifles]

BTW, my wife and I currently home school our 7 year old....

[Irving]

and I doubt your kids could pose any seriously challenging questions until high school at the minimum.

And by then you could hopefully build a strong enough intellectual discipline in them to counteract the flaws in the public school system.

Maybe you are seriously over estimating me.

[SA Friday]

and I doubt your kids could pose any seriously challenging questions until high school at the minimum.

My seven year old once asked me why his penis was 'all hard and pokie' when he woke up in the morning. I found answering that question to a seven year old kinda challenging.