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High school students mount sex offender campaign |
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Tuesday, 27 March 2007 19:00 |
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A group of students at Danbury High School in Connecticut has taken on a class project to alert parents in their community to the dangers posed by released sex offenders.
Lisa Frese, who teaches "peer leadership" at the school, inspired her class to take action on the issue. The students are mailing a letter from Danbury's mayor, along with computer printouts listing every registered sex offender in Danbury. They have been stuffing envelopes and are mailing the package to 6,000 households, according to WTNH-TV. "There's children getting off the bus every day with parents who are unaware that sex offenders live in the area," says senior Max Delahanty. Another student leader, Stephanie Steichen, agrees that parents are not checking the online sex offender registry. "They know how to use a computer but they [don't] look," she says. We salute the kids at Danbury High and hope they will use their momentum to wake up politicians, as well as parents. Connecticut has released thousands of known sex offenders into unsuspecting communities like Danbury with little or no meaningful supervision, shifting that burden to ordinary citizens. Why do high school students take this responsibility more seriously than lawmakers?
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