Over-Policing & Use of Force, Would putting Police in every childs school be a good or bad idea?

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In the â90s, after tragic school shootings such as Columbine, in a climate of increasing âtough on crimeâ rhetoric, schools began arming themselves with law enforcement. Today, more than 170 Texas school districts have their own police department. Nationwide, there are nearly twice as many school safety employees as there are counselors in public schools. Many never receive training to learn how to deal with children or work in schools.

What started as a well-meaning effort to protect children has turned some schools into police zones. Schools rely on SROs to deal with minor disciplinary issues. What used to be handled through detentions, warnings by teachers, or a trip to the principalâs office can now lead to entanglement with school police.

In recent years, there have been several high-profile incidents in which children were arrested at school in questionable circumstances. Children as young as five have been led out of classrooms in handcuffs for acting out or scribbling graffiti on desks. Students have been arrested for throwing an eraser at a teacher, breaking a pencil, and having rap lyrics in a locker. These children do not belong in jail.
A Public Outcry Has Begun
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The proliferation of SROs also diverts precious resources from education. Some districts spend millions on security, despite the fact that their schools lack basic resources like textbooks and libraries.

SROs are there to protect studentsâ safety. They should only get involved in serious situationsâwhere public safety is in immediate danger.

Studies have found that a punitive approach to discipline doesnât make students behave. Itâs part of what drives them to drop out. Policing children makes them feel like criminals. Whatâs worse, students end up with a criminal record for offenses (chewing gum, talking out of turn, being âdisrespectfulâ) thatâd never rise to the level of a crime if committed by an adult.

The way we punish these offenses has serious repercussions for studentsâ futures. Students can be denied admission to college because of their âcriminalâ records. They may be ineligible for public housing or certain professional licenses because they âhave a record.â

Students begin to feel a sense of inevitability and resignation when it comes to getting in trouble at school or ending up in the juvenile or criminal justice systems.

What We Need

Fewer SROs in schools MORE »



Training for SROs MORE »



Policies that Ban Tasers and Pepper Spray MORE »



Clear Use of Force Policies that limit physical aggression by SROs to the most extreme situations when studentsâ or school employeesâ safety is on the line MORE »



Data on Every Time Force is Used in Schools MORE

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There are a lot of schools, mainly in the inner city that already have at least one or two police officers on duty at all times. They also have metal detectors and bag searches and sniffer dogs and the whole nine yards. It is not a pleasant place to go to school or to teach. You don't get into the school building unless you get buzzed in by someone who knows you. Naturally there might be other ways that a maniac might kill schoolchildren indiscriminately, but it is all they can do in the Chicago Public schools to keep children from killing each other, raping each other, or cutting each other up. You bet they have policemen in the building and they need them.

Maybe even schools in the affluent suburbs where people tend to be kinder and gentler to one another need to consider the vulerability of their schools when it comes to rare but possible senseless acts such as the one in Newtown CT. It is hard to predict when or where the next school massacre or cinema massacre will happen, but, apart from disarming a public somewhat justifiably lacking in confidence that the police can or will protect them from harm at all times, it would help if certain measures like the securing of entry into school buildings and possibly security personnel on the premises would not be a waste of school district resources.

What are some Back to School trends for fall 2013?

Julie

I am in eight grade and i want your help guys. What are some trends for back to school and fall? I'm really for first day for school and i am shopping in 4 weeks before school and i want clothing items that are going to be on trend this season? Thank You!

Answer
It's hard to predict so early...

From what I can tell:

Bows

Skinny jeans

Chunky Jewelry

Big bag (matching with accessories)

Patterned Leggings

Crop Tops

Stripes

Floral styles (http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/fashion/shopping/2013/01/shop-spring-summer-2013-trends-prints-60s-90s-neon#!image-number=9)

Tye Dye stuff

Just get things you like and show it off! You should enjoy wearing clothes you buy, not wearing clothes that you don't like.

Rock it Fashionista!

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