Anonymous wrote:I want to know if my children are in school with adults who have committed crimes.

Your need to know this is not greater than an 18-year-old's need to get an education after a DUI or a drug possession arrest. Imagine how much worse off society would be if an arrest meant being kicked out of school forever.

OP, how old is your child? Once they become teenagers and high schoolers they do spend time in public places without you where not everyone has been background checked. In our society we do not restrict everyone with a criminal record from going near any teenagers. In the incredibly unlikely case of the Rockville rape, those guys did not have criminal records. And no, being undocumented does not count as a criminal record, or you would be running 5-year-olds out of my local kindergarten for being "criminals."

Anonymous wrote:What about janitors.

I'm pretty sure anyone working at the school has a background check.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a terrible idea, and as a parent of a child with a September birthday I would work against such a regulation extra hard. My daughter will be 18 nearly her entire senior year, because of the school regulations. She should not be treated any differently than any other senior due to that.

Yes, she should

I don't really understand this. Only the summer birthdays will be 17 the entire senior year. All the rest will turn 18 during the senior school year. How should the kids be treated differently once their 18th birthday arrives?

Exactly. Most kids will be 18 at some point during their senior year. Are people seriously suggesting that most of the senior class needs to stop by the office and get scanned in each morning?

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Anonymous wrote:It's a terrible idea, and as a parent of a child with a September birthday I would work against such a regulation extra hard. My daughter will be 18 nearly her entire senior year, because of the school regulations. She should not be treated any differently than any other senior due to that.

Yes, she should

I don't really understand this. Only the summer birthdays will be 17 the entire senior year. All the rest will turn 18 during the senior school year. How should the kids be treated differently once their 18th birthday arrives?

I just don't get these arguments. I mean maybe it is because I don't have a kid in school. But it is almost like folks are arguing in here that sexual assault or any threat of violence sexual or otherwise is blamed on a wide age range. Like the only thing that is preventing men from raping girls is exposure.

Teenagers and adult men interact in other locations and manage to sit next to each other without turning into rapist.

I don't know, I guess what I am saying is if the only thing stopping men from being rapist is exposure to teenage girls than I think we have a much larger problem on our hands.

Anonymous wrote:It's a terrible idea, and as a parent of a child with a September birthday I would work against such a regulation extra hard. My daughter will be 18 nearly her entire senior year, because of the school regulations. She should not be treated any differently than any other senior due to that.

Yes, she should

It's a terrible idea, and as a parent of a child with a September birthday I would work against such a regulation extra hard. My daughter will be 18 nearly her entire senior year, because of the school regulations. She should not be treated any differently than any other senior due to that.

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It is an unfavorable opinion that illegal residents are in fact breaking the law, so should they be alllowed around our kids?

Yes, I have no problem with that. I'm not scared that an immigrant here illegally will somehow corrupt or harm my child with her illegal status.

Anonymous wrote:What about janitors.

Students, no matter what their age, are also not custodians. They are not employees of the school. Students are not entrusted with the keys to every room in the building. They are not given the responsibility of maintaining the safety of the physical plant, protecting the school form liability due to slips and falls. They do not have the responsibility to properly use and store chemicals.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyway. If any adult takes advantage of a minor could of mine on school grounds I will sue. If I find out that that adult has reason to be kept away from my kids, I would sue for even more.

So it's OK if a juvenile takes advantage of your kid?

No,but I don't have access to those records. I should have access to the records of the adults.