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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]And to add to this, it doesn't matter who exhibits this type of behavior, people of color (as the above poster put it), or the skinny white girl in the back of the classroom. They should be quickly escorted out and the same consequence applied. And in my view that should be a talking to by staff followed by an automatic suspension... at least this is how things were handled in schools in the past during saner times.[/quote]

I mean, sure, and we can give them all unicorns to ride to school.

If we didn't have decades of experience and reams of actual data to show that SROs are particularly vicious to kids of color, then we would be having a different conversation. If abusive cops were subject to accountability, oversight, or consequences, we'd be having a different conversation right now.

But that's not the world we live in, and that's not the reality of policing in 2021. [/quote]

Righ but it's not about SRO, but someone who works at the school who can take control of the situation so the classroom can resume to normal. We can also claim that kids of color are particularly vicious to teachers, staff and other students more so than other students... but how is that helpful? What matters is finding a way to de-escalate the situation quickly so the teacher can continue to teach in the time left. And I think we can agree that someone should not only be able to give an appropriate consequence, but actually talk to and explain to the student why what they did is not acceptable.[/quote]

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