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Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Most Important Thing To Remember
Friday, August 14, 2015
First Day Of School In Frankfort, Kansas
It's that time of year again in Frankfort, Kansas, and this story will appear once again on this site, because the school here in Frankfort has not seen fit to come into compliance with safety standards observed by schools in other parts of Kansas, and has not come into compliance with federal law concerning the presence of weapons on school property, bullying, or student safety. The only change made is that credit shall be granted where it is due: the name of the errant and uncorrected guidance counselor who has been granted carte blanche to endanger children is Tom Schroeder.
Anyone who's listening, I will tell you a story. It's a true story, and it happened in October of 2009. Thankfully, it had a happy ending.
My oldest daughter used to be quite the avid cross country buff when she was thirteen years old. She was good at it, too. But one day, while she was at practice, and I was at home, just assuming that all was well, her coach drove past my house, stopping to talk to my eight year old son. Mr. Coach wanted to know if Mr. Eight Year Old had seen his older sister. Mr. Eight Year Old had not. No one had seen my daughter in over two hours. She was lost. Why was she lost? Because her coach had dropped her off by the side of a highway, four miles south of the town we live in, by herself, and just left her. It was part of cross country practice. No supervision. If she had been stung by a bee, had tripped and hurt herself, or had some other medical emergency, no one would have been there to help her. (at this juncture, you should know that I offered to volunteer to help with cross country, but since I do not attend a Christian church, my offer was rejected. The school staff thought it better to take chances with a child's safety in the way I just described) When my daughter realized that she did not know her way back, she started to wander on a side road, hoping it would bring her to a house, or another person. This area has a lot of commercial farms, and there were no houses or places my daughter could go to for help.
Back to my eight year old son.......Twenty minutes went by. While he did not realize the signifigance of his conversation with Mr. Cross County Coach, (also Mr. Guidance Counselor) he did realize that no one knew where his sister was, and it was getting later and later, and no one was looking for her. So he told me about it. I looked all over town, called all her friends, searched the school (why was the school left unlocked after everyone had gone home?) and finally started home to call the police, when a couple of senior boys drove up with my crying daughter in their car. It was still within a few minutes of when I found out she was missing, but this cross country coach had known all afternoon, and had not called the police, or spoken to me. Why? I guess whatever he cared about, it WASN'T my daughter. Well.........I actually DO care about my daughter. Nowhere else have I met a teacher that did NOT care, at least a little, about the children he teaches, but I think that is what the problem is with Mr. Cross Country Coach/ Guidance Counselor.
Suppose it was not young men from her school who found her, but a dangerous person? I have been told time and time again by the people who live in this small Kansas town that "those things don't happen here", and "there ARE no dangerous people here", but there was a sex offender whose address was within half a mile of where my daughter was abandoned. The police were quick to point that out, but the principal only argued his harmlessness as a sex offender with them and the school board is not worried about the incident.
My children no longer participate in cross country at their school. It isn't safe.
Anyone who's listening, I will tell you a story. It's a true story, and it happened in October of 2009. Thankfully, it had a happy ending.
My oldest daughter used to be quite the avid cross country buff when she was thirteen years old. She was good at it, too. But one day, while she was at practice, and I was at home, just assuming that all was well, her coach drove past my house, stopping to talk to my eight year old son. Mr. Coach wanted to know if Mr. Eight Year Old had seen his older sister. Mr. Eight Year Old had not. No one had seen my daughter in over two hours. She was lost. Why was she lost? Because her coach had dropped her off by the side of a highway, four miles south of the town we live in, by herself, and just left her. It was part of cross country practice. No supervision. If she had been stung by a bee, had tripped and hurt herself, or had some other medical emergency, no one would have been there to help her. (at this juncture, you should know that I offered to volunteer to help with cross country, but since I do not attend a Christian church, my offer was rejected. The school staff thought it better to take chances with a child's safety in the way I just described) When my daughter realized that she did not know her way back, she started to wander on a side road, hoping it would bring her to a house, or another person. This area has a lot of commercial farms, and there were no houses or places my daughter could go to for help.
Back to my eight year old son.......Twenty minutes went by. While he did not realize the signifigance of his conversation with Mr. Cross County Coach, (also Mr. Guidance Counselor) he did realize that no one knew where his sister was, and it was getting later and later, and no one was looking for her. So he told me about it. I looked all over town, called all her friends, searched the school (why was the school left unlocked after everyone had gone home?) and finally started home to call the police, when a couple of senior boys drove up with my crying daughter in their car. It was still within a few minutes of when I found out she was missing, but this cross country coach had known all afternoon, and had not called the police, or spoken to me. Why? I guess whatever he cared about, it WASN'T my daughter. Well.........I actually DO care about my daughter. Nowhere else have I met a teacher that did NOT care, at least a little, about the children he teaches, but I think that is what the problem is with Mr. Cross Country Coach/ Guidance Counselor.
Suppose it was not young men from her school who found her, but a dangerous person? I have been told time and time again by the people who live in this small Kansas town that "those things don't happen here", and "there ARE no dangerous people here", but there was a sex offender whose address was within half a mile of where my daughter was abandoned. The police were quick to point that out, but the principal only argued his harmlessness as a sex offender with them and the school board is not worried about the incident.
My children no longer participate in cross country at their school. It isn't safe.
Monday, May 25, 2015
Monday, October 7, 2013
No Amber Alert If A Frankfort Kansas Child Disappears
Kansas public schools, particularly the one in Frankfort, have yet another serious safety issue, in addition to the lack of insurance on their buildings and activities, thanks to the legalization of guns carried by teachers in Kansas schools as of July of this year. Because of the government shutdown, the Amber Alert website is offline. Apparently, notifying the public when a child has been wrongfully taken via automobile is not considered essential by our elected, trusted servants in Congress and the Senate!
It is hard to imagine what this means in Frankfort, Kansas, where it is considered business as usual for teachers to abandon students on the highway and refuse to report them missing when they get lost and disappear. This means that at the end of the school day, when the child does not come home, alerts will not be shared with motorists, or even on the news, to help the public recognize any vehicle that may have been involved; when a child is lost, sometimes he or she will accept a ride from a stranger, hoping to get found again. This was actually done to female freshman in recent years, and she was very lucky to make it home. What about the Frankfort student who is not so lucky?
Kansas public schools take too many chances with the safety of children already. In Frankfort, where the teacher who "lost" the student still works, an Amber Alert could mean the difference between coming home safely if lost, or having a permanently open missing persons case. Perhaps it would be wise, if the teacher who abandons children on the highway seriously cannot be fired for his crimes, to at least furlough him along with other casualties of the government shutdown, until the Amber Alert website is back online.
It is hard to imagine what this means in Frankfort, Kansas, where it is considered business as usual for teachers to abandon students on the highway and refuse to report them missing when they get lost and disappear. This means that at the end of the school day, when the child does not come home, alerts will not be shared with motorists, or even on the news, to help the public recognize any vehicle that may have been involved; when a child is lost, sometimes he or she will accept a ride from a stranger, hoping to get found again. This was actually done to female freshman in recent years, and she was very lucky to make it home. What about the Frankfort student who is not so lucky?
Kansas public schools take too many chances with the safety of children already. In Frankfort, where the teacher who "lost" the student still works, an Amber Alert could mean the difference between coming home safely if lost, or having a permanently open missing persons case. Perhaps it would be wise, if the teacher who abandons children on the highway seriously cannot be fired for his crimes, to at least furlough him along with other casualties of the government shutdown, until the Amber Alert website is back online.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Romney Does Not Know Why He Lost
Mitt Romney still can't get over the fact that, in order to be the president, one must win an election. He also does not understand that while a large number of Americans, in his estimation, forty-seven percent....but probably a lot more.......are not important to Mormon whoremongers such as himself, their votes actually ARE important during a presidential election. Instead of looking at all the ways he alienated the American public, he has chosen to continue his dumbass rhetoric about the legendary "forty-seven percent", this time stating that President Obama gave "gifts" to minorities, or somehow, through his policymaking,"bought" their allegiance. If that's truly the case, perhaps ol' Mitt should have taken that into account before he decided that he wanted to be their (the forty-seven percent's) president. Because last Tuesday, he discovered that the White House is not for sale, and that it's also not for Mitt Romney.
The biggest reason Mitt Romney did not get elected has to do with his mouth. He opened it too many times. And on those occasions, the stuff that came out was frightnin'. Three times that stand out in my memory are his "corporations are people, too, my friend" comment; the debate he had with Newt Gingrich during which he began his dialogue with a comment about Gingrich's love life; and, of course, the famous remark about the forty-seven percent of Americans....and how they are people who do not matter because they do not fall into a catagory that enables the IRS to tax them at a rate that would make their opinions or lives count inasmuch as Mitt Romney is concerned. Of course, there was all of Romney's flip-flopping on issues and policies, there were the tax returns he would not show the public, there were the emails and other records from his governorship he hid or destroyed, there was his wife and her spoiled, selfish demeanor, and his lack of manners during all three presidential debates, his lies during all three debates...right in Obama's face; and many, many more problems with his character and performance as governor. He also tried to play the birth certificate card. And then....Hurricane Sandy....Mitt Romney ran away to Ohio, canceled a rally, then sent his aides to buy five thousand dollars with of odds and ends from a local Walmart, then held his "rally" anyway, so that he could pose with the untransportable goods. Then he threw the stuff he told everyone he was going to donate to storm victims in the trash. Why? Because the Red Cross could not transport it. The Red Cross also told Romney that they needed donations of cash and blood. But did we see anyone on Team Romney donating blood? I sure didn't. Romney lost the election because he is a liar and a sham, and the American people were able to see it.
Obama didn't give the "forty-seven percent" anything besides the best government he could. Obama won the election because he is interested in running this country, for everyone; not just fifty-three percent of us. He also won because more people voted for him. More people from the "forty-seven percent" imaginary demographic, and from the "fifty-three percent" imaginary demographic. I do not believe any corporations voted, though.
The biggest reason Mitt Romney did not get elected has to do with his mouth. He opened it too many times. And on those occasions, the stuff that came out was frightnin'. Three times that stand out in my memory are his "corporations are people, too, my friend" comment; the debate he had with Newt Gingrich during which he began his dialogue with a comment about Gingrich's love life; and, of course, the famous remark about the forty-seven percent of Americans....and how they are people who do not matter because they do not fall into a catagory that enables the IRS to tax them at a rate that would make their opinions or lives count inasmuch as Mitt Romney is concerned. Of course, there was all of Romney's flip-flopping on issues and policies, there were the tax returns he would not show the public, there were the emails and other records from his governorship he hid or destroyed, there was his wife and her spoiled, selfish demeanor, and his lack of manners during all three presidential debates, his lies during all three debates...right in Obama's face; and many, many more problems with his character and performance as governor. He also tried to play the birth certificate card. And then....Hurricane Sandy....Mitt Romney ran away to Ohio, canceled a rally, then sent his aides to buy five thousand dollars with of odds and ends from a local Walmart, then held his "rally" anyway, so that he could pose with the untransportable goods. Then he threw the stuff he told everyone he was going to donate to storm victims in the trash. Why? Because the Red Cross could not transport it. The Red Cross also told Romney that they needed donations of cash and blood. But did we see anyone on Team Romney donating blood? I sure didn't. Romney lost the election because he is a liar and a sham, and the American people were able to see it.
Obama didn't give the "forty-seven percent" anything besides the best government he could. Obama won the election because he is interested in running this country, for everyone; not just fifty-three percent of us. He also won because more people voted for him. More people from the "forty-seven percent" imaginary demographic, and from the "fifty-three percent" imaginary demographic. I do not believe any corporations voted, though.
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