Question for Policemen/Women

[MrCritical]

Tomorrow is the dedication of the Columbine Memorial.

It's located next to the high school at "Rebel Hill".

My friend lost his daughter that day. It was the first day warm enough to eat lunch outside, April 20,1999. She neither made fun of her killers, nor was she a "jock" which they professed to hate.

Her father had to wait all night at an elementary school before they came and told him his daughter was dead.

What can we do (reasonably) that we don't do already to protect our children?

 

[CBDFrontier06]

Homeschool

 

[Pablo]

Learn your school, learn the admin, the teachers and in particular the bus drivers. Get in involved. Find out the attitude of the school district and public offcials. If they slough it off, find out why. Nothing is 100% when it comes to this junk, but a prepared, alert school will be less of a victim than a pushover school.

http://www.schoolsecurity.org/terrorist_response.html

 

[GROUCHO MARX]

My prayer go out to your friend. His daughter was an innocent victim.

If we teach our children to truly respect others, then perhaps situations like these can be minimized. It mirrors sectarian violence.

 

[shortyb]

Pabs said it. Get involved. The more you know, the better prepared you will be. Also, it should go without saying, that getting involved reaps unimaginable benefits. Both now and down the road.

 

[rn2fine]

Support your schools. Talk to, know, and support school teachers and other school personnel. Talk to your kids. Support programs that have police officers assigned to schools (state your support at City Ouncil meetings and back it up with your willingness to have tax $$$ pay for it). Know the officassigned to your school and ask them if they have a plan in case of emergency. Don't live in fear or give into it in any way. Enjoy life. Treasure every moment, especially with your kids. My 2 cents worth.

 

[rn2fine]

!?&%$ pesky keyboard. Reposted without typos below:

Support your schools. Talk to, know, and support school teachers and other school personnel. Talk to your kids. Support programs that have police officers assigned to schools (state your support at City Council meetings and back it up with your willingness to have tax $$$ pay for it). Know the officer assigned to your school and ask them if they have a plan in case of emergency. Don't live in fear or give into it in any way. Enjoy life. Treasure every moment, especially with your kids. My 2 cents worth.

 

[rjundi]

Have faith and understand basic statistics.

Look at the odds of a such an event occurring again and compare to say a fatal car accident(we almost all get into cars). I think you'll realize in the grand scheme of life's tragedy's the odds are beyond low.

 

[Aldaris]

bulletproof vests

 

[JTK]

Stay involved with your kids! Know all their 5 W's. Being a parent, there is no excuse not to on a old.

Joel