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Rainbow44
11th February 2011, 02:03
Are parents with kids dealing with the "new" parent/guest ID requirements in schools where they ask for your drivers license, put it into a system to check if you are dangerous or trouble for the school?

Imagine for example the implications of parents who are divorced who hate each others guts, file restraining orders against each other (it's been in the news so it has happened). How is the school going to deal with that? I mean what if one parent or family memeber has been hospitalized, institutionalized for various reasons and they decide the child isn't safe fwith them? Who are they to decide what is safe and how safe is the info in the system? How do we as parents know what the state or govt. is doing at any given time? What if they don't allow any parents to take thier kids and have a lock down for a multitude of reasons outside immediate danger? How much control are they taking away from us as parents?

There is nothing like walking down a hallway of your students school and seeing police officers there to what, "police" them or keep them from harm? Since when is police officers walking down the hallways normal or natural for our kids to see? What is this saying to all of us and what are the implications if we don't question how a school can decide what's safe for our kids "without" asking us.

Where has our privacy gone and how many more ID's are going to be required to do anything in life..........? Who knows maybe we will need an ID to go to the bathroom!

PHARAOH
11th February 2011, 13:00
Rainbow44, unfortunate but true. They lull the masses into accepting all of these intrusions into thier lives under the guise of "Protecting the Children" or the most popular one yet "Saving Lives".

Rainbow44
11th February 2011, 13:33
It seems like they slowly bring in change so no one will notice.
Really kind of scary if you are a parent and I wonder about the parents of kindergardeners and pre-schoolers.........how will school be when these kids grow up?
I agree our kids are our saving graces.......and the PTB know this but what do we do about it?

PHARAOH
11th February 2011, 21:55
It seems like they slowly bring in change so no one will notice.
Really kind of scary if you are a parent and I wonder about the parents of kindergardeners and pre-schoolers.........how will school be when these kids grow up?
I agree our kids are our saving graces.......and the PTB know this but what do we do about it?

Home school through the internet would be great. BTW nice pic.

Rainbow44
12th February 2011, 05:33
Yes it has it's advantages and disadvantages.
Kids want social interaction with their own peer group.
We have done both and it works, part public school and home schooling for the classes we can't teach like sciences. Don't want to blow up my kitchen!
But I must say, it isn't like when I went to school, the trust, the oblivious bliss that was taken for granted doesn't exist anymore. I think this is a good thing but sometimes I miss it.
Being awake and aware takes energy and keeping our kids on a path of enlightenment while still keeping them kids is a teeter/totter experience that changes every day.

Shelfield
12th February 2011, 06:05
Rainbow 44, bravo to you! I agree with everything you have said. I homeschool too and for the reason of finding ways to give my children a few opportunities for oblivious bliss, something they deserve. The teeter totter goes both ways for both parents and children but I feel it is a gift that you are giving each other, the gift of relationship. Having a child to raise is something so special and so rare that many don't even see. I watch all the kids around us, even the smallest of babies go off to institutions everyday and am BAFFELED by it. Please understand, there are some days I wish I could bury my head in the sand and just do the same but I don't and I won't. Just wanted to say...Thank you for the post and the reminder of why I am doing what I am doing. Cheers!

Rainbow44
12th February 2011, 06:16
Rainbow 44, bravo to you! I agree with everything you have said. I homeschool too and for the reason of finding ways to give my children a few opportunities for oblivious bliss, something they deserve. The teeter totter goes both ways for both parents and children but I feel it is a gift that you are giving each other, the gift of relationship. Having a child to raise is something so special and so rare that many don't even see. I watch all the kids around us, even the smallest of babies go off to institutions everyday and am BAFFELED by it. Please understand, there are some days I wish I could bury my head in the sand and just do the same but I don't and I won't. Just wanted to say...Thank you for the post and the reminder of why I am doing what I am doing. Cheers!

Thank you so much for your response!! You made my day!!