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Keeping Our Kids Safe
Sheltering or safety?
Bit heads back to school today. I’ve been debating since Friday if I was going to send her or not. I am trying to balance her physical safety, and sheltering her too much.
How do we even know what is too much anymore? With all the violent crime happening, how do we decide what we share and what we do not? I know I can’t keep her in a bubble forever, as much as I would like to, but when does the risk outweigh the benefit?
Thursday we went and met with her teacher, principal, district nurse, and new vice principal to get her set up to have a safe and healthy school year. That is normal back to school protocol with a chronically ill kiddo, so nothing out of the ordinary.
Friday evening things shift though. I get an email.
Ammunition…stored on campus!?!?! It’s an elementary school. Why would it be there? Can they really keep her safe? She has enough health problems, getting shot or dealing with more PTSD wouldn’t help anything.
Back after Parkland, I debated homeschooling. She’s very social though, and honestly she needs to be around kids her own age. She spends most of her time with doctors, nurses and various therapists.
She went to a different school then, and I felt her campus was safe. So I let her stay in school. We moved, so…
