Tag: Educational Resource Officers
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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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School committee member tells Madison parent: ‘You got to get out of here’
… for her own safety A Madison mother writes: This was the meeting that I attended to show my support for educational resource officers remaining in the Madison Wi public high schools. I filed this to show the treatment that David Blaska endured throughout the meeting. After speaking in support of the police, I was…
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What shame? Disrupters are proud of F-bombing the school board
Dispatches from the War on Cops / the Madison front Today we’re picking some of the better representative comments from seven sources to the Chaos in the Classroom and Cops Out of School nonsense of the past week. 1) At Ann’s Althouse: About Blaska being shouted down at a school board committee meeting, one of…
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Disadvantaged students need police in our schools the most
“Racial equity” has become the all-purpose justification for dubious educational policies. Equity proponents view “disparate impact”—when the same policies yield different outcomes among demographic groups—as conclusive proof of discrimination. On the education front, “equity” does not seek equal treatment for all students. Instead, it demands statistical equivalence in discipline referrals and suspensions for students of…