people harassing my chickens

[Chickassan]

Kids are savages! What ever happened to finding something constructive to do? I mean for real,kid has some extra time so he goes and beats up a sheep or something? That is just so bleedin sad.

Where we used to live, there was a high school about 1/2 mile away, the next nearest high school in one direction is 7 miles, while there is also one in the opposite direction that is 7.7 miles away. Right at 2,400 students attend each of the 3 high schools. In that small of a radius, there are 7,200 high school students. A lot of them know one another, since every couple of years they redistrict the schools to balance out the number of students per school. The vast majority of these kids are latchkey kids, meaning their parents work, and are gone the typical 9 - 6 giving the kids a lot of time without any adult supervision. Few, and far between are the families where the husband works, and the wife stays at home to care for the kids.

The Ag departments at the high schools had horrible problems protecting their livestock. They built nice barns, and set it up to house all the livestock in them at night, and over weekends, to no avail. The older kids were breaking locks, bringing power tools to cut openings, etc. and they were seriously abusing, and/or killing the livestock. It wasn't just the barn being broken into. They were breaking into the school to steal computers, microscopes, audio/video equipment, etc. They installed cameras, motion sensor alarms, etc. That worked at first, but the kids got smarter at breaking in. Now they have Resource Officers 24/7 on the school grounds.

 

[FrankieDoodle]

Where we used to live, there was a high school about 1/2 mile away, the next nearest high school in one direction is 7 miles, while there is also one in the opposite direction that is 7.7 miles away. Right at 2,400 students attend each of the 3 high schools. In that small of a radius, there are 7,200 high school students. A lot of them know one another, since every couple of years they redistrict the schools to balance out the number of students per school. The vast majority of these kids are latchkey kids, meaning their parents work, and are gone the typical 9 - 6 giving the kids a lot of time without any adult supervision. Few, and far between are the families where the husband works, and the wife stays at home to care for the kids.

The Ag departments at the high schools had horrible problems protecting their livestock. They built nice barns, and set it up to house all the livestock in them at night, and over weekends, to no avail. The older kids were breaking locks, bringing power tools to cut openings, etc. and they were seriously abusing, and/or killing the livestock. It wasn't just the barn being broken into. They were breaking into the school to steal computers, microscopes, audio/video equipment, etc. They installed cameras, motion sensor alarms, etc. That worked at first, but the kids got smarter at breaking in. Now they have Resource Officers 24/7 on the school grounds.

 

[Windus]

Put up a surveillance camera so you can catch the problem children and discipline them

 

[tastyacres]

Man, reading thru this makes me sad and mad..... What has happened to the age we live in..... It has probably been like this for a while but being a homeshooled teen changes things.

I agree with everyone else on here!