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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When a student is getting beat up don’t expect any teachers to break up the fight. I am not putting my hands on any kid. Without SRO’s who do you think is breaking up fights and preventing them in the first place?

And if your child gets jumped and beaten up walking down the street they can call the police because a crime has been committed. Charges could be filed and the people responsible might be charged. When that happens in a school it was if it it really didn’t because there are no real consequences. [/quote]

There are still cops and security guards outside the school.

You think fights are a new thing?[/quote]

Ha! You think a cop that is 5 minutes away from the school or is busy doing something else is going to rush to a high school to break up a fight? Never has my child seen a cop from outside the school break up a fight ever.[/quote]

[b]So where do you think this SRO will be?  Always immediately in the vicinity of any fight that breaks out just waiting to intervene?  How long do you think these fights tend to last?[/b]

Since your child's observations seem to be determinative, how many times has your own child personally witnessed a cop from inside the school break up a fight?  (And BTW, how does your child know where this cop comes from?)[/quote]

A lot closer than a cop that is NOT in the school. My child has never witnessed a fight broken up by a cop since the SROs were removed. It has been an administrator (Asst. Principal, etc.) or a teacher, if at all. And they are NOT trained nor should they ever be put in a position to do that. [/quote]

And this is the issue. My husband teaches 7th and 8th grade and is a big guy. In the past if he saw a smaller kid getting pummeled he would pull the bigger kid off or he would step in between two boys getting ready to fight and disperse them. (He never intervened with girl fights.) He stopped intervening at all in boy fights  and now won’t put a hand on any kid. He says there are no consequences so he isn’t risking his job even if he sees things like  three kids attacking one kid. He calls admin. Before SRO’s new about something of the fights that were planned. [/quote]

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