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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lol. Don’t you think we already refer kids? It takes a very long time for a student to get any additional help at all. Years, in some cases. [/quote]

Nikolas Cruz was referred to admin for years by teachers.  Teachers feared for their lives when they had him in their classroom. Restorative
justice was administered to Nikolas Cruz a number of times over the years.  At one point he was approved for transfer to the special school
but his paperwork got lost and he stayed in the regular school district.

Sadly both teachers and students lost their lives in the Parkland school shooting.[/quote]

So it would have been okay if he shot up a special school instead? I don't follythis logic.[/quote]

DP. No, of course not. I don't think anyone is saying that. I have worked at both regular and "special" schools. The stand alone special schools have supports in place that would have made it a lot harder for Cruz to do what he did. For example, higher staff ratios, smaller physical spaces so it's easier to keep eyes on students all the time, all staff equipped with a walkie, all staff trained in CPI, etc. Schools like Phillips and Alternative Paths deal with kids like that all the time and have never had a shooting to my knowledge. There are some kids who should not be on a campus with a thousand other students even if they're attending a "school within a school" type setting. [/quote]

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