BETH TWITTY HERE TO EDUCATE US: FOOTNOTES

I'm very sorry Beth Twitty has been through what she's been through with her daughter Natalee Holloway. Still, I could have thought of about three thousand better speakers on child security. Let me suggest a couple of footnotes to Beth's remarks, which she is free to incorporate.

1. Graduation Trips should be limited to a civilized destination in the United States (Gulf Shores, Any State's Capital, Ft Lauderdale, Corpus Christi all would have workd) instead of leaving the country for HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION;

2. Have a Supervisory system in place that prevents teenagers from going into predatory night clubs like Carlos 'n Charley's;

3. Have and enforce a Buddy System with teeth. If your buddy drinks or ditches you, you're both going home early.

4. Chaperones do aperiodic, unannounced cell phone checks, must talk to both "Buddies";

5. Chaperones have room key cards, can do routine and unannounced curfew/room checks (must be paired up male/femael for this.)

While I'm sorry for both Ms. Twitty and Mr. Holloway, this is no time for her to pretend to be a security consultant and no time for him to be flacking a book. To some extent--and I admire her sponsor here--her host got "took".