Is it just me, or does it seem like our country is getting increasingly violent? Four students are arrested after about 600 hundred are involved in a fight at Locke High School in the Los Angeles School District. Several students are injured but there are no hospitalizations. In one story I read, it was reported that school officials separated black from Latino students. Fifty LAPD officers, some in riot gear, assisted, as the high school’s regular police could not handle it.
So then the school is put into lockdown mode, and students are kept in their classrooms. No outsiders and NO PARENTS were allowed on campus.
Excuse me? No parents?
Imagine the panic. Did the parents know the fight was occuring? Were students texting as the fight was occuring, or texting from lockdown? If I had a student at that school, and received a text message from my child saying there was a big fight and they were in lockdown, I would have left whatever I was doing and I would have driven to that school. Then the school administrators were going to tell me I had no RIGHT to be on campus? What is wrong with this picture?
When parents choose to use the public education system, do they check their parental rights at the door? I think not. But do we now have to have a lawyer on call so we can go retrieve our children from a perceived safety threat?
