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Opt out?
Good idea, let's have kids and parents decide if they want to be a part of a lockdown drill.
You're a freaking genius. These are likely the same kids that may be thinking of bringing guns into the schools. Let's face facts... the parents that choose to whine and cry about this drill are the ones that generally don't have any idea what their kids are doing or where they're doing it 23 out of 24 hours in a day.
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Get it done & focus on the many
Opting out gives the crybabies (minority)an out. What I really can't believe is that these parents probably don't realize that there are armed ''resource officers'' in both high schools on a daily basis.
If you think the kids that would opt out are the kids with the guns - they really wouldn't be safe in a classroom anyway, in a real life situation. They'd be the real intruders being pursued - so the fact that they don't take part in the drill is probably immaterial.
Schools should try to keep their populations safe and should do whatever drills they feel is necessary to do so. This is a life lesson that could protect a child anywhere - I hope as many students as possible participate in the drill. More importantly I don't want to see it cancelled again. Giving the whiners an out solves that & the majority can keep their kids safe by learning what to do in a ''real'' situation.
By Another parent
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Got me
There is no difference between me threatening a No vote and those people yesterday threatening a No vote. That's the idea. It was so asinine for the politicians to acede to the threats that I might as well threaten too.
Now you see the problem. It just doesn't matter. My vote doesn't matter, theirs doesn't matter. We all cancel each other out.
By Central Dad
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Really changing your vote?
C Dad -
So you'd like to be catagorized with these guys?
I think you were pretty clear about not supporting the levy last time too. So this is just the excuse du jour. Every election you find one. It would have been something else if not this.
Did you see the article by Trygve Skarsten where his daughter looked at two of the same models on similar sized lots in Pickerington & Groveport? They were the exact same house yet cost $20K more in Pickerington. Why because of the schools!!
.....''People who do not vote for the Pickerington School bond issue are ''penny wise & pound foolish.'' In order to save $232.76 a year - assuming a $20K home, they vote against a much-needed school bond issue. In the process our school district suffers. Pickerington becomes less desirable place in whcih to live and our property values stagnate as can be attested by our daughter & her fiance's experience.'' In order to protect our equity & house value, we are going to vote ''Yes'' on Issue 8. You would have to live 86 years in order to recoup the $20K *$232.76 * 86 = $20,017) you would lose in the reputation of the PLSD declined like the reputation of Groveport - a district notorious for not supporting their schools.
Not many of you will be aound 86 years from now. To save a few dollars each year by voting ''No'' on Issue 8 & thereby see the value of your house take a nose dive is really shooting yourself in the foot.''
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