Yes, teach kids about personal safety but they must also learn to defend themselves aggressively. They must learn to fight back ferociously or they may suffer a terrible ordeal.
Certainly, dear caller, that is one school of thought. There are those who believe violence against an assailant could be counterproductive for a child who is not capable of taking down an attacker. Ultimately it is up to a child’s parents to instill in them the rules of safety. Red Phone believes all can agree that the best measure is for a child to never be placed in that situation.
It concerns me as a parent of children at Gilroy High School, that they have to experience the effects of other students’ attempts at drinking alcohol while in class and at school functions. Apparently the innocuous “sports drinks” are being tampered with by adding vodka, etc. We are so sensitive to cases of race, language, drugs, sex, but is enough done about alcohol, society effects and right and wrong? I am not against alcohol per se, but do think we do not have enough strength in the area of right and wrong. I have to only hope that adolescent peer pressure will not overcome those kids that do recognize good from evil.
Red Phone has no doubt that high school kids have been trying to get away with things like that since the Russians invented vodka. We are equally certain that the high school administrators won’t tolerate students drinking on campus. However, we’re not certain why you make the distinction between alcohol and drugs. Alcohol is the most deadly drug in the United States, both in its long-term use and its contribution to domestic violence and motor vehicle fatalities. Certainly any curriculum on substance abuse is going to include both legal and illegal drugs. As for your last comment, good caller, while the dangers of substance abuse must be impressed on young minds, Red Phone will let you refer to kids being “evil.” We just as soon stay out of the Stolichnaya exorcism business.
You recently published (11/13/07) that one of Gilroy’s most wanted had been “captured.” However this person actually “turned” himself in to GPD. Please get your stories RIGHT!
Well, dear caller, whether a suspect self-surrenders at the PD station or is ordered out of a car at gunpoint on a felony stop is beside the point of the wanted fugitive now being apprehended, thus “captured.” Personally, if Red Phone was facing a felony warrant, it would prefer to be captured in the calm of a police station rather than eating asphalt on some random night.
