School officers across the state turned to heavy-handed tactics on children, often in response to minor misbehavior, our investigation shows.
School officers across the state turned to heavy-handed tactics on children, often in response to minor misbehavior, our investigation shows.
I graduated a couple of years before police started getting put in schools where I grew up (yes, I’m old) and it still shocks me that parents are okay with it. I know people who have been pinned to the ground and assaulted by cops for fighting in school when a year or two before a teacher would have just grabbed them by the shirt and hauled them off each other. I understand that can be dangerous and a liability to teachers as well, but the solution absolutely isn’t cops.
There’s a long tradition of physical violence towards kids in US culture. Spare the rod, spoil the child!
At least in my county the parents celebrate them one time they tazed a student that walked away from them. This was highly celebrated because as many said it put that little
nithug* in their place.I don’t have to tell you the student’s race and how that compared to the officer/county as a whole