Posted on 06/30/2016 4:48:56 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
A controversial policy that required Collingswood public schools to call police for nearly every incident of student misbehavior has been "reversed," Mayor James Maley said.
The change comes after parents complained that their children, some as young as 7, were questioned by law enforcement for incidents such as roughhousing on the way to the cafeteria, allegedly making a racist comment at a third-grade class party, and a playground fight between two middle school boys.
Parents did not receive any formal notification of that increase until School Board President David Routzahn and Police Chief Kevin Carey each put out a statement Monday...
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The district began contacting police more often after the Camden County Prosecutor's Office called a May 25 meeting with school officials and police to reinforce school incident-reporting standards. The meeting was prompted by a serious incident at Collingswood High School that had been reported to police, but only after a delay. Maley would not discuss the incident, saying it is still under investigation.
Since then, police were called to schools in the 1,875-student district sometimes as often as five times a day...
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Jacqueline Wolfe, whose 7-year-old son was questioned by police in early June, said Wednesday that the lack of information about her own case and the overall policy has been unacceptable.
Wolfe said that around noon one school day, her son Tory was roughhousing with a fellow second grader in line for lunch at Tatem when a teacher said their play had become too aggressive, and the school called the police.
After speaking with two police officers along with his principal, Tory thought he had been "arrested for playing with his friend," his mother said. He has been too shy and upset to speak about the incident for nearly a month, she added.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
All this school district is good for is terrorizing young children. Shame on them.
http://tatem.collingswood.k12.nj.us/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=123813&type=u
The Principal's name is Jennifer McPartland and her phone number is :
(856) 962-5704
So, the bad publicity from trying to destroy a kid’s life for calling brownies “brownies” has had an effect.
I think I will celebrate by biting some Pop Tarts into guns and shooting bits of sticky filling into the air.
I hope the parents sue everybody and organization involved. It will be like winning the New Jersey lottery, so they can then move the hell out of that stinking state.
I though Christie was supposed to be so good but the crime, corruption, PCness and stupidity is just as epidemic today as it was before he took over.
The Principal’s name is Jennifer McPartland and...
Jennifer has NO business being around children.
Seems like when I was a kid you got to be a kid in school up to the point you deserved it when they laid a board across the old behind.
At 7 years old, if the police had interviewed me, I would have been BRAGGING about it for a month.
"Upset?" Man up snowflake!
We had a problem with a teacher and admin member. The teacher didn’t like our kid and refused to help him in his studies. Well, he was joking around with fellow classmates about a teacher. Nothing bad at all. Teacher sent him to the SRO as revenge. We jerked him out and now homeschool. Best thing we ever did. He also was being bullied and they did NOTHING.
I’m not a believer in public schools, but apparently the directive actually came from the prosecutor’s office:
“The district began contacting police more often after the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office called a May 25 meeting with school officials and police to reinforce school incident-reporting standards. The meeting was prompted by a serious incident at Collingswood High School that had been reported to police, but only after a delay...”
Apparently this “educator” is into child abuse through her PC idiocy. Someone report this fool.
Not saying Jennifer McPartland is innocent, but the article reads as though she may be a pawn in this.
But did we ID the nitwit that thought this was good policy to begin with?
Public schools will never be ‘fixed’.
Homeschool. Or a carefully selected Catholic/Jewish school.
Parents must stop making excuses and find a way. Just find a way.
“The Camden County Prosecutor’s Office oversees and coordinates enforcement of New Jersey’s criminal laws in the County of Camden. While the office’s budget is provided by the county freeholders, the Prosecutor is appointed by the Governor and answers to the state Attorney General. “
So he’s Governor Bridgeblocker’s boy.
Prosecutor’s office
856-225-8400
ccpotips@ccprosecutor.org
Report misconduct here:
aseixas@ccprosecutor.org
http://camdencountypros.org/internal-affairs-complaints/
“...hope the parents sue everybody and organization involved...”
And the Cop too. Personally. Make it financially painful for these assh*les to do this to children ever again.
Should be fired for being stupid.
No need to call the Principal, it wasn’t her idea. Read the letter from the School Board and the Police Department, neither of which seem thrilled with the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office. If what the School Board and the Police are saying is correct somebody at the County Prosecutors Office should be sent home by their boss for bad judgement. Or perhaps made to write out “I will not make foolish decisions” 500 times on the whiteboard in the conference room.
Wish we could say the same for the entire schools administration and the district honchos too.
Did any girls ever get the cops called on them? I’d wager not. Female teachers don’t want to deal with boys, better to just call the cops or tell the parents to dope them up so they are more docile.
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