Do you get an SMS or a phone call if your child doesn’t arrive at school in the morning? Some parents do, some don’t. The way Ann Golub sees it, that could mean the difference between life and death.
The Sydney mum has launched a petition to make it compulsory for schools to contact parents if their child doesn’t turn up. She believes there’s a danger of children being abducted as they walk to school. It’s a scenario that goes through her head.
“Between 8.30 at their home and 8.40 when they reach school, a car pulls over, grabs the child and puts them in the boot,” she says.
“Things like that are giving me shivers all over my body. Abductions still happen. We know that from the child Daniel [Morcombe] in Queensland.”
Golub says if a child was to be abducted on the way to school, it’s possible their parents wouldn’t be aware they’d gone missing until the end of the school day. She says if parents were told their child hadn’t turned up first thing in the morning, it would help.
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Could be a good idea, but sometimes I feel like the schools are expected to be responsible for everything. Where do they get all the money and extra staff to provide all this stuff that they are supposed to do, in my day they were just supposed to teach us and that was it. The other problem is that if they sign up to this procedure and the system falls through the cracks then of course the school will be sued if anything happens to a kid.
yes I can see that it could really make a difference for some kids that end up getting abducted, but it does seem as if overworked, underfed schools have to be responsible for everything in a child's life these days.
I wonder if parents would be better off installing the iphone find my home app, give the phone to the kid then check each day where they are. yes a lot of work (and they are essentially stalking their own kid) but then hey it's is just as time intensive for a school to have to do this too. But then I know some parents don't want their kids to have phone either, so I don't know what is the best way.
Maybe have them microchipped like my pet! then gps em! Ha Ha!