There was a recent story that should have sent a little bit of anxiety through all the parents in Levy County.
The attempted kidnapping of two young boys from Joyce Bullock Elementary School in Williston recently points out how vulnerable our children can be. Joyce Bullock has fences around it, but it is a huge campus and it's impossible for the faculty to keep an eye on all children once school is dismissed.
Ultimately, the safety of children is a parent's responsibility, but all of us have trusted our children to the schools at one time or another.
What really bothered us was that the matter was not publicly discussed at a subsequent School Board meeting. There should have been a lot of questions asked by members of their own staff and the school's staff. There needs to be a public airing of what happened and what is being done to prevent it in the future, which raises the question of whether anything IS being done.
As it has done with other controversial issues, the board chooses to ignore it.
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