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I've had a fantastic experience over the last few weeks.
I taught on car safety day and was able to reach 65 children and their families, which is almost all of the children in our district going into pre-k and kindergarten (I think someone said that there were 17 eligible kids who didn't enroll in Safety Town).
I've been able to get to know some police officers (I moved here last summer and haven't had an opportunity before this), and through that process they've learned a lot about CPS and have been talking about it more at work, the Chief asked me if I could make a quick reference sheet for everyone on the force about the new booster law, and how to identify if someone is breaking the current laws as they are written (I'm going to get some assistance from the local Safe Kids on that). I'm thrilled they are open to learning. The Safety Town coordinator has been especially curious, he's so happy I'm involved in the process, he admitted that what he's previously taught wasn't comprehensive enough and may have been dangerous - on Day 1 he gave me a seat belt positioning device from Safety 1st to use in my lesson if I wished, and I thanked him. During the lesson I showed it to the kids, and explained how unsafe it was, and why, and told them that it didn't meet the requirements for a booster for the law. Afterward he told me he recommends them all the time, and that he has a lot of phone calls to make and homes to stop at now so he can correct his mistake.
It's just been a good experience all around, and on an unrelated subject I also asked him if he could try to explain the uniform differences between a police officer and a security guard - police are good, yes, but often security guards have criminal records and could be a real danger to kids, he said he had never thought to do that before and he'll include it in the lesson plans from now on.
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I've had a fantastic experience over the last few weeks.
I taught on car safety day and was able to reach 65 children and their families, which is almost all of the children in our district going into pre-k and kindergarten (I think someone said that there were 17 eligible kids who didn't enroll in Safety Town).
I've been able to get to know some police officers (I moved here last summer and haven't had an opportunity before this), and through that process they've learned a lot about CPS and have been talking about it more at work, the Chief asked me if I could make a quick reference sheet for everyone on the force about the new booster law, and how to identify if someone is breaking the current laws as they are written (I'm going to get some assistance from the local Safe Kids on that). I'm thrilled they are open to learning. The Safety Town coordinator has been especially curious, he's so happy I'm involved in the process, he admitted that what he's previously taught wasn't comprehensive enough and may have been dangerous - on Day 1 he gave me a seat belt positioning device from Safety 1st to use in my lesson if I wished, and I thanked him. During the lesson I showed it to the kids, and explained how unsafe it was, and why, and told them that it didn't meet the requirements for a booster for the law. Afterward he told me he recommends them all the time, and that he has a lot of phone calls to make and homes to stop at now so he can correct his mistake.
It's just been a good experience all around, and on an unrelated subject I also asked him if he could try to explain the uniform differences between a police officer and a security guard - police are good, yes, but often security guards have criminal records and could be a real danger to kids, he said he had never thought to do that before and he'll include it in the lesson plans from now on.
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