+1 PP sounds crazy. It's not actually about you, PP. It's okay. |
They may have been prohibited by district guidelines. Restorative Justice is about keeping kids in school....not suspending them....not calling the police. Too many kids were being suspended and apprehended by the police prior to Restorative Justice. Fewer suspensions means the district is doing a good job. Stats are kept statewide. |
I have worked with probably 50 kids with FASD and this kid has ZERO of the facial markers. I'm not saying he isn't mentally ill (the evidence points to yes) but this isn't FAS. |
+1 School too concerned about stats, and too concerned about getting sued by the overly aggressive parents with overly aggressive kids. |
Tragically, this kid seems to have unspiraled in a very short period of time. There's no evidence that RJ was used with him because he had not previously been a disciplinary problem. Moreover, Oxford MI is not exactly on the forefront of progressive educational pedagogies. |
In todays school culture the pendulum has swung to keep trouble making students in the classroom because the troubled students have rights and the parents of the troubled students have rights. Why aren't the daily chair throwers expelled from classrooms? The parents of the chair throwers have rights and deny that their child is disruptive to the class. |
The school didn’t want to deal with his parents. Easier to send the kid back to class than to override the parents and the no doubt tantrum they would throw if police were called on the spot. Now they will have the parents of the deceased to deal with. |
No doubt. |
| I think there needs to be closed-circuit feed monitoring in every classroom and the hallways. If your kid has an infraction, immediate suspension off campus. If you refuse to take the kid, immediate police officer referral. |
So what? That doesn’t remove the responsibility of the school to act in the best interest of the safety of the entire student body. Afraid of parents?? What a stupid excuse. |
I don’t care. The principal should have said either we search the backpack or we notify the police and let them decide (and they would have of course searched it.) The principal failed every other student at the school that day, whom he has a duty to protect. The boys parents are criminals for sure - absolutel trash, but the principal has some liability here too. |
Agree. But calling the police was and is always an option for schools when they feel there is a threat. They don’t need the parents’ permission to express a concern, make a report, and have an officer come out and look into what is going on |
+1000. And they will live with this forever. |
| Wow, this thread is insane. |