Posted on 02/16/2021 5:09:57 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
During a special meeting on Tuesday, the Los Angeles Unified School District's Board of Education will consider an amendment to the 2020-2021 budget that would reduce 133 positions from the LAUSD Police Department, including 70 sworn officers.
The officers at secondary schools would be replaced with a new "climate coach" role, in addition to psychiatric social workers, counselors and restorative justice advisors.
"We can’t ignore the legitimate concerns and criticisms that students and other members in the school community have about all forms of law enforcement," Superintendent Austin Beutner said Monday during his weekly message to the community. "No person should feel the presence of a safety officer on a campus as an indictment of them or their character."
According to the school district's proposal, climate coaches will assist site administrators and staff by "supporting a safe and positive school culture and climate for all students, staff, and community members" and will "be from the communities they serve with extensive knowledge and familiarity to strengthen student connection."
Climate coaches would be trained on how to implement a positive school culture and climate, how to build positive relationships and elevate student voices, how to use social-emotional learning strategies to strengthen student engagement, how to eliminate racial disproportionality in school discipline practices, how to use effective de-escalation strategies to support conflict resolution and how to understand and address implicit bias.
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I wonder how many deaths it will take to wake some of these
clowns up.
These are the types of deaths that Socialism causes, but
never has to answer for.
100% babble, once again coming out of CA.
“We can’t ignore the legitimate concerns and criticisms that students and other members in the school community have about all forms of law enforcement”
It’s the job of educators to enlighten those that feel this way of the fallacy of those beliefs.
They are denying the very Word of God, as long as the world endures we will have dinner,fall,winter and spring.
Autocorrect strikes again, dinner, should have read winter.
Man, I thought they were talking about Global Warming coaches at first!
But this will probably be just as bad.
Spell-check gotcha!
By the way the author used the word “legitimate” to take a straight story and turn it into an opinion piece.
School climate coaches are “community organizers” on a slightly smaller scale.
Maybe summer???
I’m sure school violence will decrease dramatically.
Autocorrect strikes again, dinner, should have read winter.
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I like dinner better.
Madness
Problem is - and I say this as a newly retired teacher after 33 years - there are too many psychopaths in the schools - both student and staff. They are impervious to reason, logic and “talking to” - many are dangerous.
My dear friend, a former special ed teacher, told me what he used to see in the psychiatric wards when he taught in a locked-down psych unit is now mainstreamed into classrooms.
The schools suppress the crime and violence, none of it gets reported - and I saw assaults, robberies, extortion, almost every day.
I think Chicago should try this.
Yep. Maybe, just maybe, if the teachers did that job and say, let the Officers lead an assembly to explain what and why they do things and answer question it might help. Instead they throw the police under the bus and wonder why the kids have issues.
It’s 26 degrees in Austin right now.
Why bother? I;m sure the Teacher Union will find some reason to say school is not safe next year as well and refuse to teach.
They can still get some of their homeys on the payroll.
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