The problem is, that most children are not abducted by strangers, but are abducted by people they know or knew, i.e. mom and dad, grandma and grandpa. There are EXTREMELY few cases where a student or child is kidnapped by a stranger. Those usually take place on the streets OUTSIDE of school, so who is this really protecting? There is also a problem, if mom and dad have to send someone who is not on the school's pre-approved list to pick them up, say grandma or grandma, because they are in an accident or can't get ahold of one of the other two people who are approved. This is a waste of money, a better thing to teach children would be "if someone tries to take you somewhere, and you don't want to go, KICK AND SCREAM LIKE MAD!" If people would step in when they see something like this happening between a child and adult, and don't automatically say "Oh, it's just a kid being difficult", we wouldn't have all the missing children.
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The problem is, that most children are not abducted by strangers, but are abducted by people they know or knew, i.e. mom and dad, grandma and grandpa.
There are EXTREMELY few cases where a student or child is kidnapped by a stranger. Those usually take place on the streets OUTSIDE of school, so who is this really protecting?
There is also a problem, if mom and dad have to send someone who is not on the school's pre-approved list to pick them up, say grandma or grandma, because they are in an accident or can't get ahold of one of the other two people who are approved.
This is a waste of money, a better thing to teach children would be "if someone tries to take you somewhere, and you don't want to go, KICK AND SCREAM LIKE MAD!"
If people would step in when they see something like this happening between a child and adult, and don't automatically say "Oh, it's just a kid being difficult", we wouldn't have all the missing children.