It
was "SAFETY" day at the country club elementary school. The school
distributed to all 350+ students a personal-emergency combination "whistle
& signal light" key fob. The school's instruction to the kids was use
them only to summon help in case of emergency.
They
were handed out to all students during the first
hour of class time.
You
can guess what happened. A kid with a whistle can't resist the urge to make
noise. Make that 350+ kids and you would have thought that "the big
one" earthquake happened during a mass kidnapping at the first recess.
Even a school wide, loudspeaker broadcast instructing the kids to "knock
it off" and repeated instruction what an emergency is went ignored.
I'm
sure the parents picking up kids gleefully blasting whistles as they hopped
into the back seat really appreciated the school's attention to the safety of
their children.
