Category: Cops in schools
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The troublemakers should sit in review of school police
Madison school board committee buys into school-to-prison pipeline theory School police must be restrained from harassing kids; students should be taught their criminal justice rights and — unbelievably! — the troublemakers will sit in review of the cops’ actions! They’re shooting up the east-side neighborhood surrounding La Follette high school. Kids with guns, living out…
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The Squire blew off Monday’s school board meeting
‘Can’t stop people from disrupting’ The Squire observed the Madison Board of Education at the safe remove of the Manor’s ancient b&w Philco. His positive behavior reinforcement coaches are marshaling the Squire’s diminishing energy for the confrontation sure to come at the school board’s next meeting October 29, when the formal recommendation to retain police in…
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School board group says keep cops in schools — with lotsa conditions
Did we win? The school board committee on Cops in Schools is punting. After meeting for 18 months, the ad hoc committee on Educational Resource Officers (EROs) “does not recommend the immediate termination of the ERO program.” Given the shooting on a city bus taking kids home from the La Follette H.S. / Sennett middle…
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‘Madison police killers’ riot at Memorial high school football game
‘I’ll be out of here in no time’ From the Madison Police website: Numerous officers were sent to help control an unruly group of teens following a Friday night football game at Mansfield Stadium, 6800 Mineral Point Rd. [ That’s Memorial high school. ] Officers reported several fights in the parking lot, with a large…
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West High staffer punched and spit upon breaking up fight
5 arrested, thereby proving the school-to-prison pipeline theory (Snark alert!) Our neighbors here on the southwest side of Madison are all over Police Chief Mike Koval’s exposure of the juvenile justice system’s revolving door policy. (Recounted here.) Then and now Chief Koval says the system is “releasing people just as fast as arrests are made.…
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The more they swarm, the more the school board kowtows to the mob
Time to file a formal complaint The Madison Board of Education is a public governmental body. As such, it is open to the public to attend. As a public meeting, it is the right of every citizen to record the proceedings as long as it causes no disruption. The news media did not attend Monday…