Do You Know Where Your Kids Are? A Summer Wake-Up Call for Every Parent

In this gripping and emotional episode of A Note From the Principal’s Desk, Dr. Shepard delivers a raw and urgent message to parents: Know where your children are, who they’re with, and what they’re doing this summer.From BB gun “drive-bys” to fighting in the streets, vaping, drug use, and senseless acts of violence — the stakes have never been higher. She challenges parents to break the cycle, stop making excuses, and start taking full accountability for what happens outside their presence.This episode is more than a warning — it’s a call to action to search the book bags, install the cameras, ask the hard questions, and bring the village back. Because silence and assumption will not protect your child. Awareness and action will.