Los Angeles removes police officers from school campus'

[RgrF]

Instead of officers, school climate coaches will be stationed at all secondary schools. Officers will remain on call to respond to emergencies and incidents on campuses with a goal of a three-to-five minute response time.

[vision63]

As Homicides (shot up 38% over a year ago) and shootings (up 32%) surge in Los Angeles. Just like when I was a kid. Nobody cares if we're safe in our schools. When I was in Jr High and High School, Crips ran everything and just ruined the experience.

[p8712]

During Tuesday's meeting, board members also approved a $36.5 million Black Student Achievement Plan, which will allocate:

$4.4 million for curriculum and instruction, including expanding diverse representation, inclusion of Black authors, and social justice connections;
$2.4 million for teacher professional development;
$2 million for school curriculum grants for schools to supplement their curriculum to make it more inclusive to Black students;
$2 million for community partnership to work with organizations that have demonstrated success with Black students;
$30.1 million for school climate and wellness to reduce over- identification of Black students in suspensions, discipline and other measures through targeted intervention;
$7.9 million for psychiatric social workers;
$7.6 million for counselors;
$2.9 million for school climate coaches;
$6.5 million for restorative justice advisors; and
$5.2 million for flexible climate grants.

That's nice. But who cares if gangs are literally running the school.

[macphanatic]

I still don't understand why disruptive or violent students aren't just removed from schools. Put them in smaller, more controlled settings. If they don't change behaviors, move them onto something else. These kids ruin school for all the others and set the expectation that one can behave however they want with little consequence. This leads to the root cause of many of our societal issues today.

[rjmacs]

vision63 wrote:
As Homicides (shot up 38% over a year ago) and shootings (up 32%) surge in Los Angeles. Just like when I was a kid. Nobody cares if we're safe in our schools. When I was in Jr High and High School, Crips ran everything and just ruined the experience.

I think the contention is that cops don't make kids safer in schools, and there's lots of evidence to that end. There's amply evidence that Black students in particular feel less safe when there are armed police in their schools.

The headline should be "Los Angeles replaces police officers at high schools," because that's exactly what they did.

[Rolando]

rjmacs wrote:
The headline should be "Los Angeles replaces police officers at high schools," because that's exactly what they did.

What are you, some kind of FACT reporter?!?!

[DeusxMac]

macphanatic wrote:
I still don't understand why disruptive or violent students aren't just removed from schools. Put them in smaller, more controlled settings. If they don't change behaviors, move them onto something else. These kids ruin school for all the others and set the expectation that one can behave however they want with little consequence. This leads to the root cause of many of our societal issues today.

$$$$$$ is why it doesn’t happen.

[mrbigstuff]

macphanatic wrote:
I still don't understand why disruptive or violent students aren't just removed from schools. Put them in smaller, more controlled settings. If they don't change behaviors, move them onto something else. These kids ruin school for all the others and set the expectation that one can behave however they want with little consequence. This leads to the root cause of many of our societal issues today.

Most school - public school systems - have an alternative school for exactly these reasons. They tend to work quite well, and in my district have been in place for almost a half-century.

[Speedy]

p8712 wrote:

During Tuesday's meeting, board members also approved a $36.5 million Black Student Achievement Plan, which will allocate:

$4.4 million for curriculum and instruction, including expanding diverse representation, inclusion of Black authors, and social justice connections;
$2.4 million for teacher professional development;
$2 million for school curriculum grants for schools to supplement their curriculum to make it more inclusive to Black students;
$2 million for community partnership to work with organizations that have demonstrated success with Black students;
$30.1 million for school climate and wellness to reduce over- identification of Black students in suspensions, discipline and other measures through targeted intervention;
$7.9 million for psychiatric social workers;
$7.6 million for counselors;
$2.9 million for school climate coaches;
$6.5 million for restorative justice advisors; and
$5.2 million for flexible climate grants.

That's nice. But who cares if gangs are literally running the school.

They might want to allocate some of that $36.5m for remedial math for the school board.

[rjmacs]

Speedy wrote:
[quote=p8712]

During Tuesday's meeting, board members also approved a $36.5 million Black Student Achievement Plan, which will allocate:

$4.4 million for curriculum and instruction, including expanding diverse representation, inclusion of Black authors, and social justice connections;
$2.4 million for teacher professional development;
$2 million for school curriculum grants for schools to supplement their curriculum to make it more inclusive to Black students;
$2 million for community partnership to work with organizations that have demonstrated success with Black students;
$30.1 million for school climate and wellness to reduce over- identification of Black students in suspensions, discipline and other measures through targeted intervention;
$7.9 million for psychiatric social workers;
$7.6 million for counselors;
$2.9 million for school climate coaches;
$6.5 million for restorative justice advisors; and
$5.2 million for flexible climate grants.

That's nice. But who cares if gangs are literally running the school.

They might want to allocate some of that $36.5m for remedial math for the school board.
It's an indentation problem - the lines below $30.1M and below $4.4M are a breakout of the total.

$2.4M + $2M = $4.4M.

$7.9M + $7.6M + $2.9M + $6.5M + $5.2M = $30.1M.

$4.4M + $2M + $30.1M = $36.5M.