[Publib] skipping school

[Judy Anderson]

It scares me that they suggested someone call 911 for truancy. They clearly 
don't understand what 911 is for.

Do you know for sure they are truant rather than home study/schooled kids? 
Some kids are in alternative programs where they can go to the library any 
time.

I also hate to think that kids will be afraid to go to the library because 
someone will always be calling the cops on them. Even if they aren't doing 
anything against the rules, to go to the library for "legitimate" reasons 
and then always having to face grilling by the police is not the message we 
want to send. Is it?  It doesn't seem appropriate to our function.


Judy Anderson
Oregon
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>From: Ann Bever <vabever at yahoo.com>
>To: publib at webjunction.org
>Subject: [Publib] skipping school
>Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 05:54:46 -0700 (PDT)
>
>School started this week and we're already seeing older kids playing 
>hookie.  I called one of our nearby high schools asking if they could send 
>a truancy officer over and their reply was they don't have an off-campus 
>patrol and to call 911 on the kids.
>
>I'm not too keen on calling 911 for school skippers so I thought I'd ask 
>others on how best to deal with a situation like this.  In our case, we let 
>them know we were aware of what they were doing and told them there WAS a 
>truancy officer who regularly patroled the libraries.
>
>Ann Bever
>Dallas Public Library
>
>
>
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