The first day of school in Bakersfield is just around the corner.<\/p>\n
Lori Meza, public information officer of the Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office, shared some safety tips while at Franklin Elementary School, which starts classes on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Meza talked about safety, walking to and from school.<\/p>\n
\u201cWalking to and from school is obviously a very vulnerable place for our kids,\u201d she said. \u201cThey’re out in the open. They’re out in the public, so make sure that you’re teaching your kids to use all the crosswalks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meza also said students riding bikes should walk their bike across the crosswalk. If they have ear buds on, they should have one ear bud in to be aware of the surroundings.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf your child has a cell phone make sure they know to not have it out in front of them while they’re walking. That can be a distraction,\u201d she said. \u201cThey can get hurt from not seeing something or obviously they could be unaware of their surroundings.”<\/p>\n
Meza said it\u2019s also good to have an emergency plan in advance.<\/p>\n
Have a special keyword with your kid. So, if that keyword is texted, the parent knows it\u2019s an emergency.<\/p>\n
Meza also talked about online safety and social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the biggest things that I like to tell parents and students is do not be friends with people online that you don’t know in real life,\u201d she said. \u201cIf you don’t have the ability to talk to them and confirm what you’ve been discussing online, that’s not someone that you should have as an online friend. Another thing that I like to remind our parents and students is just remember these three little letters TMI, too much information. Knowing what TMI is online is really important.”<\/p>\n
Meza said don\u2019t ever post your phone number on social media.<\/p>\n
She also said to be careful with posting first-day-of-school photos on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don’t want to have your school name in the background of your photo,\u201d she said. \u201cIf you have those cute little plaques, you don’t want to put identifying information about where your child goes to school.\u201d<\/p>\n
Be careful of the information in the photo and data that can be downloaded, she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first day of school in Bakersfield is just around the corner. Lori Meza, public information officer of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-429093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}