http://thekyronhormanpetition.ning.com/
This petition is for Kryon Horman and for every child NATION WIDE to be provided SAFETY AND SECURITY. No child should ever be put in a position where their safety is put to the test and left in question.
This petition is for everyone to join together and make it mandatory that every school should have a survalence system and provide a system of security for every student/child attending. <snipped from FB site to explain what this is about>
Do you agree that every school should be required to have a surveillance system? And should it be called "Kyron's Law"?
No, I do not agree that every school should be required to have a surveillance system.
In rural areas, small schools are one of the things that keep tiny towns alive. In the tiny town nearest me (less than 1000 inhabitants), the question of a surveillance system comes up every few years.
And is voted down every time, so far. Funding such a system would mean eliminating something else. The last time it came up, the estimated cost of the system was roughly equal to the extra hours the school nurse works over and above the state mandated minimum. Those extra hours allow the school nurse to get to know the kids better overall and to provide many extra services. Fund something that may never be used? Or fund extra hours for someone who provides a lot of services for students with every hour worked?
Every other line item that is not state mandated gets the same result: the computer center gives the kids experience they will need in today's world, the enrichment programs facilitate learning and give the children wider experience in language, math and science, etc.
For this tiny, rural town, the question is a no-brainer.
Unfunded mandates are the bane of small towns. There are fewer than 20,000 people in the entire
county, so every time the blowhards in the state or national government get the brilliant idea to mandate something without funding it, each and every county resident feels the pinch. Usually the pinch for any one thing isn't very much, but over time, all those pinches start to hurt.
And then that raises a greater question: make it too expensive for America's farmers to BE farmers and what are ya'll going to eat?