WTH is wrong with PEOPLE?????

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

Among the questions: How could Jacks's children disappear for so long without school officials, police or social workers noticing and stepping in to help?

This is REALLY easy to do in DC.

High school kids won't get looked for. Public high schools are wayyyyy too understaffed to worry about one missing girl, who most might assume is just truant or a drop out.

Elementary schools don't fare better. Sure, there is a process that is SUPPOSED to be followed....but hell, what can you do when the counselor is marking children as "present" behind the teacher who has already marked them absent?

It's happened to me first hand. People are lazy and don't want to follow up. People are overworked and can't possibly follow up. People have to work second jobs so its impossible for them to follow up.

I am sooooo home-schooling.

ETA: I would never be a social worker in DC -- they are more overworked than school personnel. Even my friend who is a case manager for the department of mental health has like 90 clients! She is only supposed to have up to 45 or so.