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Post by David Vaughn on Sept 10, 2015 7:12:19 GMT -5
I have a thought starting to run around in what's left of my mind, please bear with me. A question first for the MSROA Presidency...
How many SRO's are there in Missouri?
Thanks,
- David
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Post by David Vaughn on Sept 14, 2015 6:57:36 GMT -5
....still waiting...
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Post by David Vaughn on Sept 22, 2015 7:15:26 GMT -5
It's really not a hard question. So I'll focus this inquiry to the MSROA Secretary...How many SRO's are registered with the State of Missouri?
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Post by David Vaughn on Sept 26, 2015 8:18:32 GMT -5
Thanks for the phone call I received the other day and I know the answer will be forthcoming shortly.
However, I'm just going to blurt out my suggestion on becoming actively involved in these threads, in lieu of waiting for the actual number of SRO's in the State.
I understand there are Regional Representatives throughout Missouri, responsible for receiving, answering, forwarding the thoughts, ideas, questions, suggestions and general annoyances from not only their assigned SRO's, but the community at large.
What if these Regional Representatives were to contact each SRO in their assigned Region, discussing current events in the targeted SRO's school district. What problems, issues, challenges, successes, etc etc are currently in play within their school sites? What current Law Related Education seems to be a hit with their students, while others are a bust? During their investigations, was their something so bizarre which re-directed the outcome? What trend(s) in social malcontents are noted? What effective ploys are being used by the students which counters the negative effects of school life?
Case in point: I was called to an elementary school on a report of Child Abuse upon an 8 year old child. The child had multiple burn marks which had turned into infected boils, each burn site was the exact size of a cigarette burn. The parent was well known to both law enforcement and the schools, as a parent with anger issues. All the physical evidence appeared to be a slam dunk in which the parent was to be arrested for felonious child abuse.
But the child's response to how the injuries were inflected upon her confounded me. The child affirmed her mother was verbally and sometimes physically abusive to her IN THE PAST, however she never offered the injuries were the result of mom hurting her.
If you've interviewed child victim's, you know how quickly they'll deny not only the abuser's name, but how the injury was sustained.
On the part of being confounded, due to the child's responses how the injuries were inflicted, coupled with the parent's denial and apparent lack of knowledge on how the injuries were received, I was faced with looking outside of the home for the abuser. I wasn't convinced the parent of other immediate family members caused the injuries.
After a couple of days, I mentioned this type of injury to my daughter, who is a nurse. She shared an insight which completely blind-sided me.
Where we lived in Arizona, a small beetle was currently biting and infecting the local populace. The toxin in that bite or sting would leave a welt then raised boil...wait for it...the exact size and look of a cigarette burn.
Long story shorted, that is how the child received the injuries to her extremities.
I took this knowledge, and placed it in a monthly e-newsletter Arizona School Resource Officer's Association (ASROA) had in place for current events. There was a flood of responses from other SRO's with similar investigations, finding the same result as we did in that there was no child abuse, just a bug infested bite or sting.
The purpose of this thread is to have the MSROA Board invite all Board members, including Region Rep's, to initiate a monthly or quarterly e-newsletter, available only to SRO's or their subscribed recipients. Have each of the Board members, including Region Rep's, place an article on current events in their respective areas. With the Region Rep's reaching out to their individual SRO's, a lot of goodly information can be shared in a relatively short period of time.
Of course, this can occur now, if those signed up to this blog would interact with their own thoughts, instead of just reading the OP's comments and moving on to other things.
It takes nothing but a short amount of time in which to get the e-newsletter up and running, especially with current technologies in our computers.
What are your thoughts on this? And yes, I would really appreciate your responses. Not for me, but for your SRO Rep's, MSROA Board Members, and most importantly, your role as an effectively informed and successful SRO.
What topics would you, the viewer, like to see in such a format?
Your turn...
- David
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