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PSA: Look Y’all, Talk to Your Kids About Online Safety (Again)

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Today your Local Yokels are pleading with parents to talk to their young ‘uns about online safety. The news that a student at Windsor Knolls Middle School was caught distributing explicit material of herself and her high school friend is–well, really, it is hard to find succinct words for distressing news with so many facets to it. Far be it for a team of bloggers to come across as Luddites, but at times we all pine for the days when young people could not so easily make and distribute pornography in their free time. Not to mention look at it. Also, feeling nostalgia for the bygone days when doing something rebellious wasn’t necessarily so darn permanent or public…

There are many resources available for addressing this subject. If you need a shorter version: don’t take images of yourself that you wouldn’t show Mom and Dad. It may also be useful to discuss the news and say, “That must be humiliating to discuss with your teachers and principal and police officers. Best avoid that.” If anything positive can come of this, may it provide a good cautionary tale to start a conversation, whether for the first time, or to revisit.

And a quick note emphasizing how to empower kids against on-line bullying. Have them take the bull by the horns and shut down the account.

 

Let’s talk about realistic drug solutions…not fairy tales.

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We here at the Local Yokel have previously written our concerns regarding the Trout Run property being transformed into a drug treatment center by the deranged followers of Lafayette Ronald Hubbard. Our friends over at “No Narconon at Trout Run” on Facebook supply a wealth of information about the dangers of Narconon and what Frederick County will inevitably be in for if they are allowed to set up shop here. However, unlike some of our county council members, we don’t want to just say no, no, no without talking about some real solutions.

So being a thinking sort of people, we would like to discuss the positive efforts that have been put forth to combat the very real drug problem that we have here in Frederick County. In yesterday’s Frederick News Post we were delighted to learn of a partnership between the Frederick Police  and the Frederick County Health Department. In a pilot program scheduled to begin June 1st, the two departments will work together to pair a recovery coach with an addict. Most of these recovery coaches have overcome a similar addiction and will be made available to help an addict regain control of their lives. We enthusiastically applaud any and all efforts by our governmental agencies when working together to make our community a better place to live.

We would also like to see recovery and treatment programs based on scientifically proven methods open their doors in our fair county. The work of Dr. Lance Dodes is a great place to start. The treatment of drug addiction is as individual as the addict. We need to have a wide variety of PROVEN treatments available to our neighbors who suffer from addiction, not ones that are preying on our most vulnerable citizens in an effort to make them a part of their alien fairy tale.

In closing, we would like to make our readers aware of the Town Hall Meeting scheduled to take place on Thursday, May 28th at 6:00:

It's curious that we don't see Narconon or Scientology anywhere on this list.
It’s curious that we don’t see Narconon or Scientology anywhere on this list.

Yes, let’s talk about solutions. Real ones.