Welcome aboard!
The purpose of this safe schools site is to save one child's life. Mrs. Kraemer would tell
you I usually have more than one reason for doing something. Another purpose for
this site is to demonstrate what can be accomplished when regular folks take charge
of their own lives and the kids in their lives. I've seen it happen on a small scale, the
common sense, decent, honorable person restoring with a few tools more things than
a bus load of bureaucrats could restore with a shed full of tools and wallets
overflowing with cash from the mail room.
This site is designed to help inform and give information to parents, school
staff and other adults who want to help make their school a safe and effective environment for
children and adults. It's not intended to provide psychological, medical, or other professional counseling services.
This site is expected to help demonstrate what can happen with a little bit of caring
from a lot of people. I'm not talking about bleeding heart caring or the political correct
approach to caring. I'm talking about caring about our own kids more than other peoples kids
and caring a little about all kids. Caring just enough to do what is necessary to help
keep kids safe at school, on the school buses and in our homes. And doing so
without abusing the rights or responsibilities of parents or the school staff.
This safe schools site is a controlled environment. This simply means that myself
and Mrs. Kraemer ultimately decide the permitted activities on this safe school's
grounds. Their is no committee, no panel of political experts and no special interest groups
deciding what's appropriate to tell you. There is counsel sometimes, concerning
privacy issues and matters that experts help us out with. The final decision most often
is Mrs. Kraemer's and mine.
It's always a good idea to know the bias of any site. The bias of this site is toward
expecting lots of common sense, decency and honor toward each other when on this
site's grounds. Discussions are expected to promote your thoughts, not necessarily to
tear down the thoughts of others. We can disagree all we want, we can even agree to
disagree and leave at that.
There are limits to what is allowed to be discussed on this site and regardless of the
special interests and the demands from the politically correct. Indoctrination of
children toward sexual activities with adults or other kids is an example of what's
not permitted on this site's grounds. Also, Mrs Kraemer and myself expect no
cursing and no dirty pictures on this safe school's grounds.
Copying stories from this site for personal use, for use in school and employee
newsletters and for occasional posting on bulletin boards or to send to friends is
permitted. Copying for use in "for profit" publications is often permitted. When used
in newsletters, other publications, including electronic bulletin boards, it is expected
you let us know you're using this material in your publication. Please remember that stories containing spacific permission to Safe Schools for posting doesn't extend to others - please be sure to check with Safe Schools at ( [email protected]) or the original source prior to reposting these types of stories. See the copyright page
for more information on this and other expectations.
We've received a lot of help preparing this site...a free site from Geocities, message board help from DELPHI forums, information resourcing help from a variety of private and goverment media sources, and free
graphics from Bizman to mention a few. We'll mention others as we go along in
building this site.
Thanks again for visiting,
James & Marilyn Kraemer
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person has a great school or school bus safety story, idea, war story or
"something funny happened today" story. Perhaps something for the rest of
us grown-ups to think about or perhaps to affirm, encourage and support
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When e-mailing your story please include your name, contact address and a little about yourself. If the story is controversial and you wish to remain anonymous
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