I remember being in high school and treating the security guards like jokes. Because they were, they were school security guards. My friend and I would take their pictures and make trading cards of them, follow them around in similar garb to their uniforms making believe we were their side kicks, and just be sarcastic and silly with them pretty much every time we saw them. They loved it, we did not do it in a disrespectful manner but in a joking fashion. To this day if I visit my high school the lead guard George remembers me by name. Which says alot, not only about the impression I left, but on his connection to the students in the school.
That type of connection with security guards no longer exists in America. Instead of private security who end up getting to know and understand the student body, many schools are letting full blown police officers discipline students for skipping class, stealing $1, farting, falling asleep and much more.
According to TechDirt:
The theft of a dollar shouldn't have warranted much more than a visit to the principal's office, if that. But, because of these policies, the school automatically turned it over to a state trooper, who then interrogated two children, presumably attempting to get the 8-year-old to testify against the fifth-grader. Unfortunately, incidents like these are far from rare.
- A water balloon fight towards the end of the school year results in seven students arrested.
- A high school student who changed another student's last name to something inappropriate in the school yearbook is arrested and facing first degree property damage charges, a felony.
- A 14-year-old student is arrested on two charges of "disrupting the educational process" and one count of "obstructing an officer" after wearing an NRA shirt to class -- something that did not violate the school dress code, which bans "depictions of violence" but not guns.
- In Mississippi, kids have been arrested (and incarcerated) for "dress code violations, flatulence, profanity and disrespect."
- In Stockton, CA, a 5-year-old with ADHD had his hands and feet zip-tied by the on-duty officer while he waited for the parents to show up. The child was then charged with "battery on a police officer."
- A cop who was not on duty at a Washington, DC school gave a 10-year-old student a concussion when he "grabbed the back of [the student's] head and slammed his head forward into the table." The student had been sent to the cafeteria for not participating in music class.
- A diabetic student who fell asleep in class claims the school police officer slammed her face into a filing cabinet before arresting her and taking her to jail.
If you thought those were terrible actions taken by horrific human beings check out the most horrid police on student violence to date:
Denys Lopez Moreno sued Officer Daniel Alvarado, Police Chief John Page and the Northside Independent School District in September 2011 for the death of her 14-year-old son, Derek Lopez.
The incident unfolded on Nov. 12, 2010, when Lopez allegedly exited a school bus and, in view of Alvarado, punched another student. Lopez ignored Alvarado's order to freeze and fled the scene with the school officer tailing him in a patrol car, according to the amended complaint.
With Lopez hiding in a shed at a nearby home, Alvarado drove back to the scene of the fight but allegedly refused to give up the search.
"Ignoring his supervisor's orders to 'stay with the victim and get the information from him,' Alvarado placed the second boy into the patrol car and sped into the neighborhood to search for Derek," the complaint states. Local homeowners then directed Alvarado to the shed, Moreno claimed.
"In violation of NISD police department procedures, Alvarado drew his weapon immediately after exiting the patrol car," the complaint states. "With his gun drawn, he rushed through the gate and into the back yard. Within seconds from arriving at the residence, Alvarado shot and killed the unarmed boy hiding in the shed."
Keeping students safe, by zip typing them, giving them concussions and murdering them. Are we living in the Twilight Zone? Does anyone even know what the word safe means anymore? We try to keep kids safe from possible school shootings and their own childish behavior, by allowing cops to beat the crap out of them? Yeah that'll teach them a lesson.
** DO NOT ALLOW YOUR CHILD TO GO TO PUBLIC SCHOOL UNLESS YOU ARE WILLING TO GET A CALL ONE DAY SAYING THE LOCAL COP ON DUTY SHOT THEM FOR SHOWING UP LATE TO CLASS **
Please, God, be smarter than that. Public schools are there to indoctrinate your child in to being part of the system. Be a subservient slave to the goons in uniforms and follow arbitrary rules as a kid to get used to following arbitrary laws as an adult.
I say this as a parent who will never allow his daughter to go to public school.
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