Placer Hills Union School District currently has a policy in place that prevents convicted sex offenders from stepping foot on campus.

“The current policy for individuals who are required to register as sex offenders is that they may have no access to any school site or district property for any reason,” stated Fred Adam, superintendent of Placer Hills Union School District.

Recently the board members were scheduled to decide whether or not to remove the policy. It was created in October 2010 after a parent complained about a father who was a convicted sex offender, and had been attending school functions with his children. The policy has prevented him from dropping his kids off at school and has created a controversy.

Sex offenders should not be allowed onto elementary school campus’s because they have proven that they are potential threats to society. One could argue that anyone is a potential threat to society. The difference is that sex offenders have actually committed an act of violence in one form or another. They have harmed a human being once, so what’s to stop them from doing it again?

Children are the most vulnerable they will ever be while they are in elementary school; they have no parents to watch them and they have little ability to defend themselves if an adult decides to harm them. Given that sex offenders have hurt someone before, they could choose to take advantage of small and defenseless child and harm them. Once again, the argument could be raised that anyone else could harm a child in some way. Sure this is true, but if by preventing sex offenders from accessing a school campus were to save one child from being harmed, would this not be worth it?

Sex offenders should not have access to a schools campus is so that parents can feel more secure with the knowledge that their children are in a public school. If you had a child and you knew that there could be a sex offender on campus, having harmed someone in the past, would you feel comfortable with the idea of dropping your kids off there and leaving them to find their way to class?

An argument could be made that if there is a sex offender on campus they are probably dropping off their kids. Yes they may have kids and could be perfectly safe but who’s to say that they haven’t harmed their own children? This possibility alone is a scary one to consider when one’s children are in the same place at the same time.

Meghan’s Law is in place for a reason. If sex offenders were allowed to be on school campus then what is the point of having Meghan’s Law?

It was created to let people know who is a convicted offender and where they live. If this information is available to the public so that they can keep their kids a safe distance away from the sex offender living around the corner then why would they want a convict on the same campus where their kids go to school?