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| 'Police Do Not Belong in Our Schools.' Students Are Demanding an End to Campus Cops After the Death of George Floyd |
| 2020-06-06 |
| [TIME] Student activists across the country are calling for their schools to cut ties with police departments and remove officers from campuses in response to a national uprising against police brutality. And school leaders in Minneapolis and Portland, Ore., have already taken that step. While debates over the role of coppers in schools have raged for years, activists say the latest high-profile examples of police violence against black people — the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky.,— have fueled the argument that coppers don’t belong in schools. The public school board in Minneapolis voted unanimously to terminate its contract with the city’s police department on Tuesday in response to Floyd’s death. "I firmly believe that it is completely unnatural to have police in schools," school board member Kimberly Caprini said during the meeting, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. On Thursday, the superintendent of Portland Public Schools said he was "discontinuing" the presence of school resource officers (SROs) and would increase spending on counselors and social workers, the Oregonian reported. Advocates for police reform and racial justice are hoping more school districts will follow. "It is a huge, huge, huge moment. It feels unprecedented," says Jonathan Stith, director of the Alliance for Educational Justice, which advocates for police-free schools. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 BTW: I expect to see a major school related incident the closer we get to October-November. It fits in with the Liberals election year play book. That's one reason why they're anxious to get schools re-opened. Not only has indoctrination been constrained; not only has the necessity of sending kids been rendered a topic of debate; it has been impossible for them to arrange any school shootings as the anti-Trump coup started impinging upon people's consciousness. The Floyd deletion was a Devilsend in that regard. |
| Posted by: charger 2020-06-06 14:46 |
| #9 We've had a lot of "education free schools" for some time now. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-06-06 12:53 |
| #8 Alliance for Educational Justice, which advocates for police-free schools. Building on the success of 'gun-free' schools. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-06-06 11:52 |
| #7 What better way to reinforce the need to accelerate remote learning? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-06-06 10:22 |
| #6 NO! ... likely it some liberal single parent acting out thru their kids. Students don't DEMAND anything. They are there for an education. If they want to show their tail ends, then send them to alternative schools just for the misfits. Given more and more intercity youth are assaulting teachers and each other, school police are now needed more so. Also what about a timely response to school shooters? Are the kids demanding their initial only line of protect be removed? BTW: I expect to see a major school related incident the closer we get to October-November. It fits in with the Liberals election year play book. |
| Posted by: No-Need-2-No 2020-06-06 09:17 |
| #5 Give it to them. Most urban colleges are located in bad neighborhoods and learning what the locals think of them could be very educational. |
| Posted by: Large Darling of the Bunions9752 2020-06-06 09:05 |
| #4 After spates of school shootings over the years, most parents would not agree with these student activists. Most of the people doing the shooting were either really screwed up nutso or could be considered student activists of a similar ilk as those calling for removal of the police security officers. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-06-06 07:54 |
| #3 The Civilian Disarmament Industrial Complex is a bit alarmed at the lack of school shootings since schools have been closed. The skids must be greased! |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-06-06 07:45 |
| #2 The campus cops were so helpful at Parkland... |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2020-06-06 01:50 |
| #1 Give it to a few - good and hard - pour encourager les autres. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-06-06 00:24 |