Tag: Police in schools
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Is Madison willing to pay for a sales tax at the price a Republican legislature will charge?
Should five percent appear too smallBe thankful I don’t take it all‘Cause I’m the taxmanYeah, I’m the taxman — G. Harrison, The Beatles How serious is Madison city government about balancing its budget? Rather than address the over-spending that created its $27 million structural deficit, alders are chasing a rainbow-colored unicorn — a city sales…
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Send the principal to detention hall!
Inmates to run asylum! When Jack Nicholson, in the movie As Good as it Gets, tells the nice neighbor lady to “Sell crazy someplace else,” she must have set up shop in Madison WI. Madison is stocking up on crazy as if it were triple-ply toilet paper in a pandemic. Its public schools are hoarding…
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Madison police are Nazis? So says school board member Ali Muldrow
And, of course, sexist and racist “Mainstream education is an oppressive institution,” says one supporter ⇒ UPDATE: A recall petition has been started ⇐ If I read this right, Madison police will continue to provide security and positive role models in Madison’s four main public high schools for two more school years. That is because…
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Same old: Police, not student behavior, to blame
Blaska Policy Werkes has its werkes cut out for it. We are upside down, backwards and inside out here in the Emerald City, Madison WI. As predicted, Ms. Ali Muldrow and Ms. Ananda Mirilli voted against policing our troubled high schools in a 4-3 vote Monday night, without citizen comment because the Board of Education…
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Madison schools playing dangerous game of chicken
Will parents risk showing up at the June 24 Madison school board meeting to fight for their kids’ safety? Who will be the guinea pig? School parent-teacher organizations, print your agendas, call your meetings. You have until September 15 to protect your children if they attend any of Madison’s four main high schools. Because the…
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District attorney Ozanne tries to excuse mob action, Part #2
Is viewpoint discrimination (and reverse racial discrimination) at work here? An Open Letter to Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne: While maintaining that Madison Police had not referred our complaint to you (See part #1), you made several arguments that reveals your inclination to let slide six months of intimidation and harassment against elected officials…