Clinton also addressed other school discipline initiatives he supports, including school uniform policies, community curfews for youth, getting tough on truancy and a zero-tolerance policy for guns in schools. The hotline will be staffed beginning 15 August, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., with a voice-mail system taking messages after hours. State school Superintendent Linda Schrenko announced the hot-line as part of a series of recommendations made by the Statewide School Safety and Violence Task Force, which she established last July. WorldCom Inc., a global telecommunications company, will finance the first year of the hotline's service. The Parents Reaching Out to Understand Drugs effort will take place in family homes, led by a parent education worker from the county's Office of Substance Abuse.
People tend to get bored.
I try to think of different new ways for it to be interactive. Blank has conducted several pilot sessions in county facilities and will hold the first home-based meeting in August. Blank cautions parents not to think it can not happen to their child. Blank also encouraged parents to talk to the parents of their child's friends. In the past, these sessions were held in school auditoriums, where more media than participants showed up, notes the paper.