Well, my kid screwed up!
She took a multitool to school. It has a knife blade.
I'm sure every student will go home and tell their parents that someone had a knife at school. Which is true, and only part of the story.
I am glad she is at a private school, where she was only suspended for the day, vs at a public school with an onduty police officer, where she would have been formally charged and entered into the 'system' (a discussion for another time, but this is one problem I have with SRO and the criminalizing of students for minor offenses and how that leads the schools into a pipeline to prisons).
Suspended for the day; sure I guess that’s “reasonable.”
Personally, my wife and I are glad to have homeschooled our kids.
> In the late 1990s, SRO presence on campuses again increased after the Department of Justice created a $750 million grant program, Cops in School, to hire over 6,500 SROs.
Well, my kid screwed up! She took a multitool to school. It has a knife blade. I'm sure every student will go home and tell their parents that someone had a knife at school. Which is true, and only part of the story.
I am glad she is at a private school, where she was only suspended for the day, vs at a public school with an onduty police officer, where she would have been formally charged and entered into the 'system' (a discussion for another time, but this is one problem I have with SRO and the criminalizing of students for minor offenses and how that leads the schools into a pipeline to prisons).
Suspended for the day; sure I guess that’s “reasonable.”
Personally, my wife and I are glad to have homeschooled our kids.