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Keeping Our Kids Safe
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Discussion Started: 08-29-2000, 6:39 AM
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For many metro Detroit students, the school year is now underway. What tips do you suggest to keep our kids safe?
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mbarnett
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04-25-2005, 6:45 AM
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This illustrates the importance of kids staying in groups. This guy may have been stalking these girls waiting for the two to split up. He needs to be found. His activities are going to escalate until he hurts someone. Unfortunately even when you are with someone, even your parents, there are no guarantees, e.g. the rape of that 16 year old at SC4 who was with her mother at the time.
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millstkid
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05-30-2001, 5:32 PM
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To keep your child safe is to be there with him/her. Plain and simple! An adult should be with those kids while going to or leaving school. It's a community effort. Talk with neighbors and set up a schedule so it's fair for all kids and parents in the neighbor hood. Talk with employers to be mors leinient in letting workers off during certian hours to make sure the kids are safe. As a villiage we can do this.
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xtrabigg
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05-30-2001, 12:36 AM
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Start with making the neighborhoods around our schools safer. Then, identify and intercept troublemakers and criminals before they create a problem in the school. Finally, don't focus so much in the media on school violence- focus instead on programs and individuals that are doing positive things to promote learning and personal growth amongst students. Positive examples and positive reporting will promote positive results.
Thaddeus S. Kaczor, Jr.
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Twotonecat
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05-29-2001, 2:03 PM
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In gym class, the girls can be taught some self defense moves. You don't have to be strong or big to defend yourself. I would think that the police department would have some sort of program that could teach the gym instructors to pass on to the kids. And, as I have always told my children, it may be icky, but take out an eye. They scoop out pretty good and it will stop these guys in their tracks. Shove a fingernail up the nose. It doesn't have to be karate, just some techniques like these that are easy and dibilitating.
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ssiriani
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08-31-2000, 8:26 AM
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I posed this question to Mayor Archer back in 1994 when my oldest daughter first started attending public school: Why can't all the schools have latchkey programs? The complaint is that the welfare moms need to work, unfortunately some still have children under the school age, let them work these few hours until their children are of age to attend school, the building is already available 2 hours in the a.m. and 2 hours in the p.m. This is so sad that we as working parents, some single parents have to scramble every school year to find a school that has latchkey provisions. My daughter could not attend the school in the neighborhood because I had no way of getting her there and picking her up. Sounds so simple to me, parents who don't work can man the latchkey program in the morning and in the afternoon. Parents can drop off their precious cargo in one place and know that they will be in one place all day. This can eliminate the walking in the early hours and unaccompanied in the afternoon. I now have another one to go through the ritual of what to do? We hear the comment support the city schools, the schools are not equip for our convenience or the children. Latchkey fees are ridiculous I'm paying $70 for a child soon to be 11. When she was born I paid $55 for her daycare (SHE NEEDED MORE ATTENTION THEN, NOW I PAY MORE FOR HER NOW, AND SHE CAN MAINTAIN HERSELF - WHERE'S THE LOGIC). If there was a latchkey in the school the fee would not be as much or at least I wouldn't have to pay for transporation to and from school. Maybe I've missed something. I plan to move out of the state because as a single parent I have a very hard time, I have no transportation now and this is VERY DIFFICULT FOR ME, IT'S A STRESSFUL SITUATION DAILY.
Kindest Regards, Sandra Siriani
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