Austin High School: The Kids are Alright?

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Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 8:40 AM

To: Johnnie Walker

Subject: KLAQ Website Question/Comment

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MY QUESTION OR COMMENT:

This is in regards to the Austin High School debate:

If school officials were fully aware of what was going on in this abandoned house why would they still allow students to enter said house? Just for the sake of catching the students as they're walking out?? That sounds completely illogical to me. In a way, it is entrapment.

Isn't the saftey of the students top priority? It seems as though entraping/catching these kids as they're coming out of the house seems more important to these school official than the actual saftey of the students.

Once school official recieved knowledge of this house they should have called the real authorities (the EPPD) and blocked off the area, not allowing any more students in.

Instead they let them all go in one last time, knowingly enedagering their saftey, just for the sake of catching them. As if it were some sort of game. That is disgusting.

Not only that but there is no proof that any one particular student was doing drugs. All they have is an abandoned house with paraphernalia and students coming out.

For example, the woman who was interviewed; who's to say that her daughter was actually physically par-taking in this drug usage? Are there pictures of her taking hits from a pipe? No. She could have very well just been hanging out there with her friends, not necesarilly doing drugs. Wrong place wrong time.

This story sounds completey arbitrary to me. And it just goes to show how the EPISD has their priorites all out of whack.

It sounds to me like you’re not against kids doing drugs. You’re against kids getting CAUGHT doing drugs. On the one hand, you argue that the kids shouldn’t be punished unless they were caught in the act. On the other hand, you’re against the adults in authority doing anything that might enable them to catch the kids in the act.

It’s a good thing we don’t use that same logic with bank robbers, otherwise the bank president would have to stand outside, barring the door, lest the robbers should feel “entrapped”. But, if they managed to get inside the bank, they could only be arrested if the police actually saw them committing the robbery. Never mind the ski masks, the bags filled with loot and the automatic weapons (we wouldn’t want to make any unfair assumptions).

 If the administrators or the police had stood outside the house barring the way, it would have prevented those kids from doing the drugs…that day, in that house. Of course, nothing would have stopped them from finding some other place or even from going back to the same place when their WERE’NT adults there blocking the way.      

 There are only two adults in the world that I can imagine making such a ridiculous, specious argument as yours: One, the dreadful mother they interviewed on KFOX or, two, the kid’s dealer. I just can’t decide which is the bigger threat to our future society.

Buzz