Berry
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and who are your child's friends?
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This is a serious problem in a society that believes BIGGER is always better. In schools the size of small towns it is impossible to know. It is impossible for all of the teachers to know all of the kids in the school, or if any particular kid even belongs there.
And even if your child's friends are good kids how much do you know about their parents?
And even if their parents are good people it doesn't mean their grandmother doesn't have a bottle of something in her medicine closet you don't want your kids around.
It also points out the myths of our society. People who have never been to a little one room school house buy into the belief of the "Little house on the Prairie" idea that the big kids always went around picking on the littler kids and making their life miserable. People who have actually attended one remember the older kids more as protectors and teachers helpers.
I think one way to help keep kids off drugs is to have small neighborhood schools where parents, teachers, and children all know each other and can keep track of what is going on.