This makes me angry. I am unclear from this article if your name is attached to the picture of the house in any way. With that in mind, I realize that I am probably coming from a paranoid point of view here, but feel that safety issues are being disregarded. I am a therapist who works for county Mental Health and many of my client's have been sex offenders, perpetrators of violent acts etc., and being female I have also had to deal with stalkers. I would like to prevent in all ways, unsafe clients from stumbling upon where I reside. Including the possibility that while searching for property in our town they come across a picture of a house with my car of it, which they would likely recognize from the clinic, on the web. I feel like it has often been made difficult to ensure that where I live is not made public or handed out to persons or agencies that I have not authorized. You have to pay to not be listed in the phone book. People buy your address from other businesses in the area in order to sell you crap. Even this article it states "The pamphlet tells homeowners who want their dwellings' data removed to go to Zaio's Web site, where they must provide an e-mail address to complete the process." So are they going to sell my email address to a company that will repeatedly spam me with e-mail spewing titles such as "Watch father r'ape redheaded daughter in ass"? (actual spam I received btw). While my concerns about the safety issue may err on the side of excessive, this whole thing still pisses me off.
I'm a psychotherapist that runs an Adolescent Day Treatment program at a Special Education school for kids that have a difficult time functioning in a regular school setting due to traumas such as severe child abuse that have left them emotionally impaired. I am not school staff, I am assigned there through our county's Mental Health. In this program, all the staff including the other mental health support person and 3 school staff put our personal monies into the program on a weekly basis just to get the kids basic necessities for school. These necessities include materials for academics, athletic activities, art-based activities, prosocial activities, and sometimes even food for kids with special dietary needs because the school cafeteria simply disregards the kid needs or believes that sugar filled cereals and orange juice should be fine for a diabetic kid's breakfast. This is five people from both school and mental health based program putting in personal funds, and the kids still have school books from 2-3 decades ago, and sometimes run out of things like lined paper.
I am very grateful that I am not a teacher because I can't imagine using my personal funds when on a teacher's salary. I am still resentful that I feel the need to put so much personal funding from my own wallet in order to help have the kids a decent school setting, and I make significantly more than a teacher. I truly think that without teachers putting in their personal funds, the school system in this state (California, I can't speak for other states) would completely fall apart. Not that they would have far to go. I am sure that it is much more difficult in somewhere like Russia to provide a decent learning environment for students. I think it is a sad day when Russian dictators like Vladimir Putin demonstrate more generosity than the head of an American corporation. Sad, unfortunately I guess not very surprising.
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This makes me angry. I am unclear from this article if your name is attached to the picture of the house in any way. With that in mind, I realize that I am probably coming from a paranoid point of view here, but feel that safety issues are being disregarded. I am a therapist who works for county Mental Health and many of my client's have been sex offenders, perpetrators of violent acts etc., and being female I have also had to deal with stalkers. I would like to prevent in all ways, unsafe clients from stumbling upon where I reside. Including the possibility that while searching for property in our town they come across a picture of a house with my car of it, which they would likely recognize from the clinic, on the web. I feel like it has often been made difficult to ensure that where I live is not made public or handed out to persons or agencies that I have not authorized. You have to pay to not be listed in the phone book. People buy your address from other businesses in the area in order to sell you crap. Even this article it states "The pamphlet tells homeowners who want their dwellings' data removed to go to Zaio's Web site, where they must provide an e-mail address to complete the process." So are they going to sell my email address to a company that will repeatedly spam me with e-mail spewing titles such as "Watch father r'ape redheaded daughter in ass"? (actual spam I received btw). While my concerns about the safety issue may err on the side of excessive, this whole thing still pisses me off.
I am very grateful that I am not a teacher because I can't imagine using my personal funds when on a teacher's salary. I am still resentful that I feel the need to put so much personal funding from my own wallet in order to help have the kids a decent school setting, and I make significantly more than a teacher. I truly think that without teachers putting in their personal funds, the school system in this state (California, I can't speak for other states) would completely fall apart. Not that they would have far to go. I am sure that it is much more difficult in somewhere like Russia to provide a decent learning environment for students. I think it is a sad day when Russian dictators like Vladimir Putin demonstrate more generosity than the head of an American corporation. Sad, unfortunately I guess not very surprising.