saintmichaeldefendthem
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So by your own admission, neither you nor I can draw upon our own experience to compare to what happens in this school. Old, enfeebled people are unable to handle these youth on the cusp of adulthood who are committing very adult crimes. Eastside High is the better comparison, and if you need a real comparison, try to imagine Constable Gramps trying to patrol this famed school in the movie "Lean On Me". And since we don't have a Joe Clarke for every negro dense high school in the country, we need a strong police presence with police empowered to do what they're trained to do.S
I went to nice schools. The one I mentioned was a public school that was not nice, white or in a nice theme park area. Appealing to your intelligence and life experience: can you see how school cops are the desk jobber/older cops on the sheriff's squad vs the sheriff's special forces unit? Come to think of it, I know another silver-haired school cop.There were two grampas at a school I went to. At this particular school they had all these problems, but the police were not expected to intimidate students. I assume you don't think that's what's needed in schools. Narcs would come to school and deal with drugs. The school called the police when there was violence. By no means were school cops and truancy cops classroom security.Having a college degree and being a cop with it doesn't vindicate smarts or wisdom. Setting that aside, a school cop is an old man job suited to nice people with a community service mindset and the willingness to work for that sort of pay. Only from shit government workers will you hear that it is stupid to take a position where you're expected to do your job professionally.Cops aren't stupid, and in fact most of them have at least a BA. I can't think any would be so dumb that they don't figure out that what happened to this cop could happen to them too. They'll either refuse the post, or they'll take it but never actually do anything. They aren't dummies.
Really? You think that Constable Grandpa is the man they choose to deal with gang, drug, and violence invested public high schools?
Dumb-de-dumb-dumb-dumb.
Sounds like you went to a nice school. You're not that bright, I can see that, but I'm sure you're at least intelligent to know there are high schools in this country that make Eastside High look like a theme park. In fact, you can gage how violent a school is by how much "color" it has.
BTW, I went to a nice school here in Idaho. I was one of about 10 students who wasn't white. It was calm, orderly, and the kids relatively well behaved. We didn't have a police officer on campus.
At my first highschool, the neighborhood posed a threat to the schools and the students. Like in most 'bad' schools. They'd make a big presence when school let out, for example. They had cops on foot and horses after some violence hurt a kid elsewhere in Los Angeles.
The Idaho perspective on this seems hypothetical to me. There are places that are actually dealing with worse than cellphone kid, and they manage better than fired guy most of the time..
Teachers asked for cops in the school to feel safer. They are going to return to the days when they were in fear now.