Criminal background checks to attend a prom? What do you think?

[TheCowsCameHome]

This is in this morning's Cape Cod Times. Apparently they are doing criminal background checks on non-students before permiting them to attend a local high school prom. The prom is being held at a privately owned resort, not on school grounds. Does this facility require background checks on their guests? I doubt it.

http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/promduress9.htm

What are your thoughts?

[annabanana]

1. That is just plain creepy..

I have to admit to being surprised that this is happening in dear, blue Mass..
(p.s. there is a poll at the link)

[saltpoint]

2. Naw. That money could be better spent on the students' education.

A couple of french horns for the concert band, new uniforms for the girls' softball team, some library books -- something that would do many people more good.

[Atman]

3. drip... drip... drip... drip... drip

Little by little...get the younger citizens used to having NO privacy, get them used to the police state. It will make Herr Heyden's job so much easier.

Soon, instead of "Where's your hall pass," they'll be stopped at gunpoint with "Your papers, please."

[Maru Kitteh]

4. If they're worried they should simply provide better security

I don't think child molesters and murderers should be at prom but is that really a big problem? Security at the prom is the schools responsibility. Who the kids are showing up with is the parents responsibility.

[maine_raptor]

5. Sad, ain't it?

Like the poster before me said, it should be up to the parents, not the school. Was when I went to the prom.

But it's the climate of fear that the MSM has created (aided and abetted by the Right).

The kids of the future will never know the America I knew of the past.

It's too late to try to put the toothpaste back in the tube here, folks. That's the way it will be from here on.

That's why this news is so sad.

[seaglass]

6. Possession of alcohol? The kid was just unlucky to be caught

since I would say 50% of the kids in my kids HS have had alcohol - they just haven't been caught.

I'm against this. The odds of having a violent criminal at a prom are slim.

[seabeyond]

7. i hear people on this board all the time ready to give up rights

and when anyone challenges them to the inevitability of continual erosion of rights, we are told that is a straw man issue. that we can pick and chose the rights we want to take from another person. well here is just another example of the interference in individual rights but what the hell right, because it is not a right to go to a prom it is a privilege

[azurnoir]

8. My daughters boyfriend had

similar paperwork to attend her prom,they go to different high schools, same city and district. It's sad but with all the gang activity I think schools are trying to safe and make sure the prom doesn't turn into a gang fight.

[MercutioATC]

9. Good idea, I say.

I don't understand why anybody would have a problem with this.

[Tesha]

10. "If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear"

(Don't I hear this very often, even on this site?)

Tesha

[PassingFair]

11. Carrie would still have gotten in!

We need to cancel ALL PROMS!