Tuesday, April 23, 2013
MORE POLICE IN SCHOOLS?!?
According to the article http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/opinion/criminalizing-children-at-school.html?ref=editorials ,President Obama wants more law enforcements into school buildings. It goes on and discusses that allowing more policeman in the schools increases more criminal arrests. This article on "Criminalizing Children in School" talks about how kids at the age of 12 are being treated as criminals by doing minor things like cursing in school as so on. It was shown in a 2011 study from the University of Houston, Maryland, Clear Lake etc. that younger people who spend time in jail will create even more problems with law enforcements when they get older. I agree with this article to a certain extent because I feel like that even though policeman are in the schools to protect, create a better way in behaving, and also keeping kids from making mistakes they are still creating worse disturbance because the minor arrests that are taking place creates bad behavior. At the end of the day, schools need policeman to not only be their for our safety, but their to be an example, not a hindrance.
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ReplyDeleteI am single woman without any kids and I was truly depressed at the moment I heard the terrible stories of sandy hook. I even talked about it to my boyfriend that if and when I had kids how terribly scared I would be to let my children attend public schools. President Obama wants more law enforcement in school buildings….. But just having them there will never be enough. I completely agree with the article on “criminalizing children in school” more and more tragic things continue to happen to our country and our children are paying for the consequences. More and more people need to focus on providing our children with the best education and teaching them more about precautions and actions we can take while arising to situations like this. I believe having more law enforcement there is way more logical then allowing teachers to carry their own hand guns. How many children do you know that are curious and naive about “new” things around them? If a teacher was not carrying the handgun on them 24/7 we would have kids killing kids. I disagree with the fact that even though the policeman is in the schools to protect there are better ways to create in behaving….. Guarantying the safety of kids is a huge deal to me like first on my list before anything, so if I was a parent I would feel better that there was more law enforcement. Kids are much in tuned with what’s going on at their schools and after this horrible tragedy. By having more law enforcement can create a better environment and allow the teachers to focus primarily on their students.