Sensible obervation

The Delphi Community School Board in Carroll County, Indiana apparently met in August to discuss checking school volunteers' criminal history. Predictably, we see the prevailing fear of child molestation coloring the whole debate. ("We're afraid that our children might get molested by sexual deviants. That's why we can't let drunk drivers work with them!")

Out of this fear-mongering, however, comes a voice of reason. Upon hearing that "no child should have unlimited contact with that person, which would include sitting next to them at a lunch table," a school board member by the name of Melinda Rossetter responded: "[A] convicted child molester sitting next to a child at a lunch table [is] no different than one standing behind a child in line at Walmart."

Reading it totally made my day. Let's try and curb our collective fear, shall we?