troglodyte wrote:
And I personally take insult to the teacher/school bashing. We certainly have our fair share of incompetence and "bad teaching" but we get dumped on way too often. Society needs a scapegoat and the education system is a convienent one. Education is a product of society. If you don't like the way your school system works, change it, find another, or home school. If you are trusting your kids to strangers maybe you need to visit the school more often or quit sitting in the back of the auditorium on parent's night fidgiting with your cell phone and get into the school and get to know the "strangers" that YOU send your kids to for 8 hours a day. Nobody is kidnapping them. It is your choice.
I didn't intend to be offensive, or dumping on the school system, my point was simply that if we can trust our children's minds to the folks in the school district, we can surely trust the CHLers a bit more. Dropping our kids off for 6 hours day to have them educated seems magnitudes riskier than letting the children mingle with CHLers. After all one of the reasons for a CHL program is to to help make it Safer for Texans. All things being equal, it isn't a stretch to claim that it is safer to be with a bunch of CHLers than it is to be with a bunch of people who are not. People who don't have guns or don't like guns scare me. more than going to an event with hundreds of CHLers, and my kids now grown, were safer at the range than at any public school.