Cautionary notes advise teachers to be alert for alienated or withdrawn children, recommend teaching students self-protection strategies, and caution teachers about releasing a child to unknown individuals. Tip-offs that a child may have been abducted are discussed, including a child's incomplete school records, their resistance to having their school pictures taken, and their being delivered and picked up daily by one parent. School abduction-prevention policies are encouraged, including locking school doors and requiring that visitors check in at the office, establishing a morning call-back system to alert parents when children don't reach school, instituting a voluntary fingerprinting program, requiring that parents complete forms notifying the school as to who has the authority to pick up the child at school, establishing a careful procedure for releasing children, and insisting on complete identification and school records on each child. Current legislation, such as the new child-protections laws passed by the Virginia General Assembly is reviewed.