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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I attended a field trip today as a chaperone and during the bus ride, one child asked if I knew where he lived. Just to be light-hearted, I pointed to a random house and said, "Right there?" The child laughed and said no and named his street in DC.

It dawned on me that even young kids, including my own, know what street and city they live in. I can just make conversation with the kids about where they live. If I find one who reports to live in Maryland, take their name and report to authorities. Boom.

[b]Just imagine if we had groups of parents doing this for every field trip in every school across the city...[/b][/quote]

Sounds as effective of determining who was Dominican and who was Haitian in the 1937 genocide,

"The method his soldiers used in 1937 to try to identify those who would be killed was cruelly unique. When confronting someone in the lands along the border with Haiti, they would hold up a sprig of parsley and ask what it was. If the person responded by trilling the "r" in perejil (Spanish for parsley), he would be free to go. Anyone who didn't trill the "r" was thought to be a Haitian Creole speaker — and was likely to be killed..."

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/10/01/162092252/remembering-to-never-forget-dominican-republics-parsley-massacre

Just imagine if a kid got it wrong, didn't know his address, sometimes lives with one divorced parent somewhere else?[/quote]

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