{"id":33139,"date":"2018-04-17T15:53:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T19:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33139"},"modified":"2018-04-18T12:23:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T16:23:03","slug":"school-policies-have-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33139","title":{"rendered":"School Policies Have Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2013, the Obama Administration<\/a> instituted the Promise Program (Preventing Recidivism through Opportunities, Mentoring, Interventions, Supports & Education). The purpose of the program was to slow down the rate of students going directly from high school to prison. If essence, the Promise Program simply looked the other way if the students committed crimes. Broward County<\/a> Florida<\/a> schools adopted the program.<\/p>\n

An article at a website called Matter of Cause posted the following:<\/p>\n

Broward\u2019s Collaborative Agreement on School Discipline was announced in early November. Instead of suspensions, students can now be referred to the PROMISE program, where they receive counseling for several days and then return to school. A host of non-violent misdemeanors no longer require an arrest, though officers can sometimes override that if they feel it is necessary (\u201cI wanted to make sure deputies always had discretion,\u201d says Scott Israel, Broward County\u2019s sheriff). The school district<\/a>\u2019s Office of Minority Male Achievement reviews data to ensure that punishments for minor infractions and racial disparities are on the decline.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been success with other districts working to address parts of the problem,\u201d says Alana Greer, an attorney with the Advancement Project<\/a> who consulted on the agreement. In recent years, Los Angeles<\/a> and Denver have limited the range of minor behavior infractions that can be punished by a suspension. \u201cBut what Broward did that really set it apart is they put together this incredible breadth of stakeholders. They have been able to not only address one piece of it, but create a set of policies that work together to hopefully eliminate the school-to-prison pipeline<\/a> in Broward.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Broward is unusual because representatives from law enforcement, the district, and the community were able to agree on reform, and the superintendent approved it. \u201cIn dealing with the previous administration, people were afraid to look at disparate impact issues,\u201d says Weekes. \u201c[Runcie] was not backing away from it.\u201d The new superintendent released the data and acknowledged that the problem had a racial dynamic. \u201cIt\u2019s a problem all over the country,\u201d Runcie says, \u201cand Broward is no exception.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article was very optimistic, but Hot Air<\/a> posted an article today with the results of the program:<\/p>\n

Broward County\u2019s PROMISE program (which stands for Preventing Recidivism through Opportunities, Mentoring, Interventions, Supports & Education) coincides with higher levels of violent crime among juveniles, even as levels of such crime have been falling statewide.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Broward County now has the highest\u00a0percentage of \u201cthe most serious, violent [and] chronic\u201djuvenile offenders in Florida,\u00a0according to<\/a>\u00a0the county\u2019s chief juvenile probation officer\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Within two years of adopting the discipline reforms, Broward\u2019s juvenile recidivism rate surged higher than the Florida state average.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The negative trends continued through last year, the most recent juvenile crime<\/a> data show.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prosecutors and probation officers complain that while overall juvenile arrests are down, serious violent crimes involving school-aged Broward youths \u2013 including armed robbery, kidnapping and even murder \u2013 have spiked, even as such violent crimes across the state have dropped.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Juvenile arrests for murder and manslaughter increased 150 percent between 2013 and 2016. They increased by another 50 percent in 2017. County juveniles were responsible for a total of 16 murders or manslaughters in the past two years alone,\u00a0according to<\/a>\u00a0the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

After Broward schools<\/a> began emphasizing rehabilitation over incarceration, fights broke out virtually every day in classrooms, hallways, cafeterias and campuses across the district. Last year, more than 3,000 fights erupted in the district\u2019s 300-plus schools, including the altercations involving Cruz. No brawlers were arrested, even after their third fight, and even if they sent other children to the hospital.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Federal data show almost half of Broward middle school students have been involved in fights, with many suffering injuries requiring medical treatment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because the students involved in the fights are considered \u201cmutual combatants,\u201d administrators tell parents they cannot be referred to police under the new discipline code.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Promise Program may have sounded really good on paper, but it lacked a knowledge of human nature and teenagers–teenagers generally like to push boundaries. If they can get away with something, they will. That’s human nature. It was unrealistic to expect that undisciplined students would discipline themselves.<\/p>\n

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