School policing falls hardest on Black students and those with disabilities, study shows

[Jilly_in_VA]

A school safety officer removed a third-grader from class, took him to a staff bathroom, closed the door and berated him, telling the frightened child to “stop crying like a little girl.”

His crime? Refusing to leave art class after an argument with another student at their Northeast Philadelphia elementary school.

In the aftermath of the 2017 incident, the Philadelphia schools issued a statement acknowledging it was not handled correctly. But a charged encounter with an officer in school is far from rare. Nationally, students were referred to law enforcement nearly 230,000 times during the 2017-18 school year, exemplifying why demands to restrict policing at schools are growing.

“You’ve got some police officers that just can’t help themselves,” said the child’s father, Isaac Gardner. “You’re taking a little elementary school child in the bathroom. You ain’t supposed to be doing that.”

A Center for Public Integrity analysis of U.S. Department of Education data found that school policing disproportionately affects students with disabilities, Black children, and in some states, Native American and Latino children. Nationwide, Black students, such as Gardner’s son, and students with disabilities were referred to law enforcement at nearly twice their share of the overall student population.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2021/09/08/police-schools-black-and-disabled-children-face-harsher-discipline/5436023001/
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Now tell me something I DON'T know. (And I'm ashamed that my state ranks at the top to the list!)

[Deuce]

1. I am not sure LE should administer discipline in schools...

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. ACAB, even (and sometimes especially) the ones in schools.

[multigraincracker]

3. Back in the 60s, my problem with public schools was the Principal of it.

I had undiagnosed learning disabilities. Ended up in his office and did miserable in school. If only there had been smaller classes and I had sat in the front row.
Finally diagnosed at age 40 and went back to college and graduated Magna Cum Laude and top 5%f on my class. Did it by sitting in the front row of every class.