Funny how there’s always money to harden security at school but never enough when it comes to funding actual teaching and growth

@allthingswavy6420

2 жыл бұрын

Right?

@khatdubell

2 жыл бұрын

Except this isn't true. The US spends more on education than anyone else. We spend more and more on education all the time, and yet our people keep decreasing in scholastic ability.

@travisanderson77

2 жыл бұрын

@@khatdubell You ever been to a small town school? We got a $2.5 million dollar grant for our school, which went to a new football field and teacher's lounge while our textbooks were a decade out of date and the food was still atrocious.

@audieh

2 жыл бұрын

@@travisanderson77 I graduated in 2019 and my history textbook was from 2001, which was before some of my classmates were born

@DasMage4368

2 жыл бұрын

@@khatdubell Look into the breakdown of how that money is spent. Roughly half of all school employees are not teachers.

When I was in high school our SRO tricked a kid into bumming him a cigarette, kid got charged and suspended. At the time it seemed funny that the kid was so dumb but looking back now its insane that there was a cop in our schools tricking kids, not even dangerous or violent kids, into incriminating themselves. The thought that the SRO was intended to be there to protect the children and was instead giving them criminal records is sickening.

@mikrod9157

2 жыл бұрын

Wow omg lol

@Gruntman1993

2 жыл бұрын

Our SRO was basically an attack dog for the principal and teachers. I never liked or trusted them

@Hoodooboiiii

2 жыл бұрын

I mean that kid wouldn’t have a criminal record for that anyways. It’s a status offense.

@bazzfromthebackground3696

2 жыл бұрын

SROs will CONSTANTLY try that shit. It's basically their only form of entertainment.

@professorrhyyt3689

2 жыл бұрын

@@Hoodooboiiii Still a person that will never again trust the police.

“Kids deserve to be annoying without being arrested” might be the most truthful, REAL and IMPORTANT sentence said out loud on any medium outlet EVER!!

@bas_ee

Жыл бұрын

What about a small or a large outlet?

@denelson83

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, there are too many teachers in the US who have very little to no ability to deal with such behaviour.

@jlt131

Жыл бұрын

@@bas_ee what do you call a midget psychic that escapes jail? .... a small medium at large.

@wookie2222

Жыл бұрын

@@denelson83 In my experience (student teacher in Germany) it all comes down to the quality of your training and education as a teacher. You can be the best student of your subject science yourself but still struggle in a class room, when confronted with children and reality. Didactics and pedagogy/psychology need to be taken very seriuos during the training of teachers - here in Germany, some universities do that, others still do it the old way and train jung scientists who have no clue how to interact with children.

@obfuscated3090

Жыл бұрын

@@denelson83 Unfortunately, lack of consequences for misbehavior ensure disorder. When the only legal way a teacher can control a misbehaving student is by calling a cop they'll do so out of self-defense. Beats getting sued (any touch is considered assault).

John saying "Oh no my good Bitch" is the greatest thing I've ever heard

@rosalinenixon923

Ай бұрын

Do you have a time stamp?

@psyclops973

Ай бұрын

@@rosalinenixon923 16:54

@rosalinenixon923

Ай бұрын

@@psyclops973 Thank you (ㅅ´ ˘ `)

That woman wasn't stalling for time, she was deciding if telling the truth was worth destroying her career.

@Slaanash

Жыл бұрын

So, errr, stalling for time?

@pattygould8240

Жыл бұрын

Because careful consideration before answering is beyond the realm of possibility?

@TheJesperX

Жыл бұрын

No, thinking is what she did

@shalizzle793

Жыл бұрын

@@Slaanash That’s not stalling, since… she didn’t stall for anything. She was thinking about what she was going to say, then said it. If she was stalling for time she wouldn’t have said the thing that would have made it not worth stalling for!

@MCSPARTAN501

Жыл бұрын

Well then, I'm glad that she chose to be honest

I was suspended from school for calling our SRO a "dirty pig" after he came into the girl's bathroom while we were changing for gym class unannounced. Two stalls had no doors and an entire class was in there getting changed. But I was the one who deserved to be detained and suspended. Makes sense.

@brandy3573

2 жыл бұрын

This is garbage and Im sorry you had to deal with that! Its absolutely despicable and noone should have to go through that. He IS a dirty fucking pig and you were correct in saying so!

@jgdooley2003

2 жыл бұрын

How is this allowed???? Was the SRO male?? Makes absolutely no sense at all. Men should never be allowed in gender specific bathrooms or changing rooms under any circumstances, both to protect the girls and the SRO from likely trouble.

@anjetto1

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Cops are infallible and children are expendable. Until they pay taxes, they're worthless. Pro life

@kellharris2491

2 жыл бұрын

Terrible. Somebody should have sued.

@kaltaron1284

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe the expected response was to do a lapdance or blow him? This is disgusting.

I graduated in 2016, and my high school had ‘campus police’. They would generally stand at corners not looking at any of us, just muttering into walkie-talkies, and I couldn’t tell you a single one of their names- but I’ll never forget when one of the ‘problem kids’ got upset about getting a detention, and the teacher called the campus police, who arrested her in the middle of class. She clearly had something going on but nobody ever seemed concerned about why a student might constantly be yelling and starting fights. And for the record, I had classes with three white ‘problem kids’, and never saw the teachers call campus police on any of them.

@olap.

Жыл бұрын

Who TF calls police on a child throwing a temper tantrum??? USA, land of the free...

@mho...

Жыл бұрын

thats basically the core of "defund the police" and putting the money toward educating teachers & (mental)healthcare for everyone!

@FunFails

Жыл бұрын

My experience is the opposite. Pretty much all problem kids in my class were black girls, and campus police would do nothing about them, but would get called on white boys for doing nothing.

@chiled0g

Жыл бұрын

I graduated in 1996. We didn't have police in the schools. No one seemed to feel the need. Perhaps we never thought of this as a solution to anything. Of course people weren't shooting up schools. Funny how there were guns everywhere and there weren't school shootings.

@sarahm9731

Жыл бұрын

i see your point. but i think too much is expected of teachers. they should not be required to be counsellors as well. their job is just to teach. do american schools not have any mental health professionals available?

My son was traumatized by an SRO in high school and NEVER went back. My son went to his counselor because he was depressed and the SRO IMMEDIATELY 51/50'd him even though.he said he wasn't thinking of harming himself. Our local hospital was full, so they took him to one an hour away without my knowledge. I didn't know anything was wrong until he called me from the hospital. Since it was a mandatory 72 HR hold, the hospital had a psychiatrist come from an hour away to evaluate him because the staff didn't think he needed to be there, but a psychiatrist had to sign off on it. Since it was a Friday, my son would have had to spend 3 days in an ER for no reason if the hospital hadn't been so kind to get someone to release him early. One bad call from an SRO scared my teen from trying to seek help and he stayed home schooled the rest of the year. We got him the help he needed for his depression, including seeing a psychiatrist. He is good now, but he still has panic attacks around authority figures and he is now 20.

@justandy333

4 ай бұрын

That is absolutely heartbreaking to read. Poor guy 😢! He reached out for help for a thoroughly miserable condition, which I went through myself. And he got arrested for it?!!! I was ready to end it when I was depressed. If I was arrested for it, I don't know, I may well have done. I've got the uppermost respect for your son! He's got more strength that you realise!

@user-io2ym6gm8z

3 ай бұрын

This generation gets "traumatized" for breakfast.

@daanachmad4032

3 ай бұрын

@@user-io2ym6gm8z Why do you act like her son was traumatised by some minor BS? Unless, of course, you are one of those fucktards who think we should be okay being abused by the authorities.

@ianbattles7290

3 ай бұрын

Aside from everything else, that sounds like a massive waste of resources. There are people who actually need help and they are wasting resources to satisfy frivolous claims from snowflake cops.

@domarigavjusmom

3 ай бұрын

@@ianbattles7290 Very true!

As a foreigner, having armed officers in campus and students acknowledging them so casually is extremely disturbing

@GrayGamer889

2 жыл бұрын

Better that than to be shot I guess

@masondill878

2 жыл бұрын

It truly is normal here has been a long time. I graduated '09, my school had two full time officers there. They had their own office, basically a little miniature police station. It had a detainment room in it. Bullet proof glass for their window looking out on the school. It was rather nondescript but oh yeah. A male cop and a female cop to do searches appropriately of course. Both armed with a taser, a gun, pepper spray. And it's a pretty complicated issue. They were mostly fair never arrested anyone over anything ridiculous that I recall but I do remember them getting involved in legit stuff. Fights, gang fights, drugs etc. Honestly sometimes it'd be surprising the stuff they DIDN'T step in over and left it to the school to handle. I dunno.

@ps374249

2 жыл бұрын

I went to high school in a small-ish town, and not only did we have an armed SRO, but, that SRO did double duty as a member of the SWAT team. There were mornings where you would see him, at the school, in his SWAT gear because he was coming from a raid.

@nathanlonghair

2 жыл бұрын

Denmark: We once had two officers on school grounds while I was there. Once. They weren’t carrying weapons or cuffs, and were there to talk about heroin addiction. Honestly I don’t even think they were the right ones for that job either, but at least it made an impression.

@abramrexjoaquin7513

2 жыл бұрын

Hear me out. Sounds like a POLICE STATE. And finally... America is like this to give White people JOB with IMMEDIATE AUTHORITY. And arresting Minority students will put Criminal Rap sheet on them disallowing them to further any Fair and Equal means as their WHITE classmates are offered. Do you not see the whole process of this? SCHOOL TO JAIL PIPELINE. Literally having cops patrol rounds in school as if its prison. The Visual aesthetics of that can be traumatizing to an already traumatized minorities.

At my high school our SRO would stand in front of the stairs to confiscate food people were carrying and throw it away in the morning because people weren't supposed to have food outside of the cafeteria. I grew up poor, so I qualified for free breakfast and lunch - without it I couldn't eat on any given school day. But I also lived rurally and my bus was often late, arriving literally right before the bell rang. I would run and grab food and an orange juice from the cafeteria and try to book it to bio, eating on the way, and she started standing at the staircase I had to take to get there. Every. Morning. Because preventing a potential mess for the janitors was more important than children being fed. I learned quickly though. I started only choosing bagels in the morning, which came with a sealed container of cream cheese, so I could stuff them in my backpack before I turned the corner to the stairs. She would try to stop me, I'd hold up my empty hands to show her I had no food then race up the stairs and eat in class. I'm really thankful Mr. Fabian, my bio teacher, didn't care that I ate in class, because that would have been a long semester of going hungry. I graduated 11 years ago and I still think about it all the time.

@kalebgriffin7406

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry to hear that I hope the food situation is better for you now. I can relate to that story it's extremely common where I live rn and our school forbids taking the food home with you or taking it to class.

@TheNextFiles288

2 жыл бұрын

I'm from useless , "ahem" Euless tx...the schools are terrible. at least when I was growing up. they lack empathy and equality. it's more, you're minority and liability and such. false accusations, no anti bully conferences or zero tolerance for anything that disrupts the children's rights. I almost quit school, there's still a few good teachers out there who care and don't give a shit about their pay or benefits, the kids come first in public schools.. it's pretty much computers and online schooling around here now. I have no idea how it's being run here anymore, except high level security and unsympathetic profiling of the lower class in this district. God help us, responsibly is looked down on and hardly exercised for the well being of ALL individuals is what the policies show anymore. keep your eyes open everyone..

@robertsmith2956

2 жыл бұрын

High school and you didn't know the government must compensate you when they take your property? Not only did government busing cause your problem, it made the children FAT. You walk 25+ miles a week carrying heavy books you get EXERCISE.

@ayannahendricks6266

2 жыл бұрын

Thank You for your comment, I hate that you had to be crafty just to eat the food you had a right to that sucks, I wish more “officials” like that school cop had sensible compassion.

@fragrantbloom

2 жыл бұрын

That is sad 😔

My school officer was arrested a few years after I graduated for pedophilia so... That was great

@leerzeichn93

4 ай бұрын

I kinda wondered about that one too...

@bluemonkey1886

2 ай бұрын

Happens often! Happened at my high school too after 7 victims came forward and it still took over a year to take him job 🙃

@kellbell4588

2 ай бұрын

An SRO was busted here for having an inappropriate relationship with a 13 yr old girl. A few years ago one was caught having sex with a student in the football field bleachers. They aren't sending their best that's for sure.

@Laeiryn

2 ай бұрын

If a cop gets arrested they were really, really obvious about doing a really, really bad thing *and* really, really bad at covering their tracks.

@1111dsjfb

3 күн бұрын

You went to school for pedophilia?

You know that uneasy feeling you get around cops, like when one follows you for a few blocks while driving, or really whenever someone in a flak jacket carrying a gun is out in public, that’s great for creating a learning environment

@BetweenTheLyons

Ай бұрын

It's true though, you quickly learn that you don't like cops, lol

When I was in high school, I almost got arrested because I tossed an eraser to my friend who didn't hear me say "Hey catch" and he got hit in the eye. He wasn't mad, it was complete accident, and we laughed it off. Our teacher than held me after class (which at this point I already forgot the eraser thing even happened it was so meaningless), tried to file a report on me, and our SRO had to come in and talk to me. Thankfully, my SRO was not an abusive asshole, and really my teacher's more a POS than the cop herself, but she literally just read the incident report and was like, "This is bullshit, I'm not handcuffing the fucking kid." I appreciate her for that, but the fact that was even a possibility at all is dystopian!

@JadeDelphi

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe you shouldn't have been throwing shit in class hard enough to injure other kids. Just a thought. I bet this wasn't the only incident.

@IndianaKong95

2 жыл бұрын

@@JadeDelphi “Oh no, my lightly grazed eye, how will I ever recover from such a severe injury!” It was a light toss, not a speedball, a laughable accident. You’re right though, it wasn’t the only incident, because of pathetic people like you who believe that children who have no counseling, no support groups, no adults willing to show them empathy, should be punished by a set of laws and rules that diminish them as nothing more than a nuisance that needs to be taken care of. Let children be children, if you don’t know how to, then you shouldn’t be near them or dictating their lives, especially when they’re in need or struggling. I may’ve made numerous visits to my principal, but I also graduated top 10 in my class out of hundreds of students, and not an ounce of that came from following “the rules”

@TrenchcoatJesus

2 жыл бұрын

@@JadeDelphi Where do you think people learn? Do you think people are born known not knowing to throw an eraser before double-checking the other person is aware? I mean, how niche is that? If the other kid had known- it'd probably have been fine. There was no intentional malice here. It was a simple accident. Even if there *was* malice, even if this *was* a repeat offense (which is a completely ridiculous thing to assume, but I'll humor you)- even if it *wasn't* an accident, so what? In the worst case scenario... that is not a crime. That is a kid doing a stupid thing and (hopefully) learning from that stupid thing. No police are necessary. Trust me. It happens all the time and will continue to happen, and kids have learned good behavior from bad without having armed law enforcement officials involved. The only thing police bring to the table is a healthy mistrust of police. In that sense, SROs aren't all bad, but it's still unnecessary training for the harsh realities of adulthood that children really don't need to confront that early. Many children already deal with those realities at home and in their communities. Schools are supposed to be a safe space, not one more point of tension. Imagine that there is a police officer assigned to your house. The county says they're there to "protect you" but really they're there to police you. That's what most of these kids are dealing with. It's absolutely insane.

@Kenjuudo

2 жыл бұрын

@@IndianaKong95 Just ignore her. Judging by this and some other comments of hers she's likely on the lesser end of the bell curve.

@melissasaint3283

2 жыл бұрын

@@IndianaKong95 It all depends on how safe the kids around that kid are as they're struggling and learning. YOU absolutely should not have been arrested for accidentally hitting your friend with an eraser, no! But I went to a school in which roving gangs of kids beat people (often strangers, because the school was so large) to a pulp on the daily. Sometimes ambulances were needed. Someone was stabbed. A few years after I attended *TRIGGER WARNING* a girl with a bathroom pass was lured into a little used hallway and forcibly raped by another student who was cutting class *END OF TRIGGER* Those were kids living in a broke district, attending a broke and wildly overcrowded school, many of whom were likely struggling accademically and at home, who had too few resources and too little intervention (though frankly, I would guess a few grew up to have APD) But the damage they did to the kids around them, many of whom were equally struggling, was immense and unacceptable. Your right to be a struggling,learning kid ends at the point where you are breaking another kid's orbital bone and leaving him with PTSD that makes his life even more difficult than it already was.

When I was in HS a kid we knew was thrown down, handcuffed and taken to school office while everyone looked on (it was during lunch). We later found out he was acting “weird” bc he was diabetic and was low in sugar. Pretty aggressive tactic for a child who just needed medical attention

@Arltratlo

2 жыл бұрын

he was different, its punishable by death or deportation"!

@radaro.9682

2 жыл бұрын

I am diabetic and this terrifies me about being in public. I am also autistic and have brain damage. I "act weird" all the time. Police scare me and I would hate to be a child with anything that makes you stand out.

@breakingbacon658

2 жыл бұрын

Oh if you sneeze or scratch your back you are up to something… it’s just common knowledge

@DrBrule-mv4ir

2 жыл бұрын

Scary stuff. Low blood sugar can also make your breath smell like alcohol. People have died of diabetic shock in police custody because they were assumed to be drunk.

@erichancock6815

2 жыл бұрын

the results of a militant fascist state we are becoming. Instead of "protect & serve" it is now "Submit & obey".

“I just thought someone would look at it and think ‘this is so cool- a legand was here’” just broke me.

Having police officers in schools on a regular basis is just another thing that seems batshit insane to lot of people outside America. I mean... Cops patrolling in schools harassing disabled and POC kids, this is some high level dystopian stuff here.

@Fabzil

Жыл бұрын

"high level dystopian stuff" yep, america

@RSVPrr

3 ай бұрын

​@@Fabzil land of the uncivilized

As someone from Europe it’s absolutely baffling to me that in the US there are a) so many school shootings to the point that b) you have police officers at school. It’s like watching a story from a parallel universe where ducks are horses and horses are ducks.

@TheGayestAspen

2 жыл бұрын

How do i move there

@matteoar

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheGayestAspen emigration.

@tranixter

2 жыл бұрын

It's worse than you think.

@Manda_Panda000

2 жыл бұрын

The school police officer subbed in one of our classes because they couldn’t find an actual teacher. To this day that is the best class I have ever taken. Edit* holy shit, I had to edit it because i said “my” school police officer. Y’all this isn’t English 101, don’t look for deeper meanings in it. I wrote it at 1:00am, chill.

@Daniel-yy3ty

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheGayestAspen are you high? do you really wanna move in a place with horse sized ducks? HORSE SIZED DUCKS!!!!!! unless you meant Europe, in that case I have no clue

Republicans: “It’s not a gun problem, it’s a mental health problem” Us: “Okay, can we at least have more money for mental health programs and intervention?” Republicans: “No, that’s socialism”

@Witness089

2 жыл бұрын

Anything that benefits everyone without lining their goddamn pockets they vote against. I can’t wait til this fossils die and are replaced

@Stevenco9124

2 жыл бұрын

Hehehehe...

@Ravenholm337

2 жыл бұрын

"Can we not let people who have mental health issues buy guns?" "NO! That's unconstitutional!" * (This actually happened)

@grady7420

2 жыл бұрын

Democrats are just as reluctant to fund these programs and republicans. Even with a democratic majority in the house and executive branch and several parts of the country, they put more money into police. This state is useless and antithetical to social equality and justice.

@Poldovico

2 жыл бұрын

Duh, disabled children should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps, get a job, make money and get therapy. That way they can go to elementary school and know how to not get bodyslammed by the police.

I am autistic and was arrested in 6th grade by an sro. It destroyed my whole families life not just mine, my parents divorced and moved over halfway across the country so I didn't go to jail for not standing in line for a substitute, ruined my intellectual development lost all my special classes and my scholarship to college I had won as a part of a mensa contest I ended up dropping out. Schools don't need cops kids don't need cops.

@she_is_sherri1492

Жыл бұрын

Where did you go to school if you don’t mind me asking? Thank you for being brave to share. Horrible what they did!

@wolftitanreading5308

Жыл бұрын

​@@she_is_sherri1492 dudes clearly lying and wanting attention. All they are doing is going duhh cops bad and trying to sound like he was the innocent victim when he probably did something far worst

@johndoh4537

Жыл бұрын

@@wolftitanreading5308did you even fucking watch the video? Who are you to assume the validity of his story?

@lays5277

11 ай бұрын

​​@@wolftitanreading5308ou got proof that he's lying? Are there any inconsistencies or glaring issues with his story? People lie on the internet all the time, but you shouldn't just discredit every account you see, even if you personally think they're lying you don't have to go out of your way to act like it's the obvious truth.

@wolftitanreading5308

11 ай бұрын

@@lays5277 do you proof he's telling the truth? The thing is people lie all the time and a sad story is easy it catches suckers all the time

At my college we have a small army of officers although our campus isn't big. Last year in a public area I witnessed racially motivated harassment from a small group of students to a single student. Me and a few other students had to step in to stop things from escalating, despite there being 2-3 officers nearby clearly within hearing/seeing range. The police only came over to us after me and the others got involved, seemingly upset that we somehow made the situation worse. Luckily no one was arrested, but it was scary and sad.

In fairness to Laura Garnette, after hearing that question she was thinking, “If I answer this honestly am I going to get fired?“ It can take you a few seconds to decide what you’re going to do. It is to her credit that, after weighing the possibilities, she gave an honest answer.

@caseyjarmes

2 жыл бұрын

Well maybe she should be fired then

@ericvicaria8648

2 жыл бұрын

For what, honesty?

@chazdomingo475

2 жыл бұрын

@@ericvicaria8648 He's probably a Republican. Honesty is a crime to them.

@MU_._

2 жыл бұрын

Yes honesty, when she is inevitably terminated from her position, her boss will say yes you were honest And correct, but you're not supposed to say it on camera. Obviously. Anybody in any position that works for someone else understands they better be careful what they say on camera. Although she was absolutely correct her boss will not give a s*** oh, because the next boss up will just fire them both

@MU_._

2 жыл бұрын

I'll hire her thou. So will every smart human that appreciates the advantages of working with honest people. This is the opposite of the US government. Where the more you lie the more powerful you can be. This country going to hell in a 👜

My son was handcuffed and shoved into a cop car for running through the sprinklers. I had to go down there and go full Karen on them for having the sprinklers on during school in the first place. He. Was. NINE

@lc9072

Жыл бұрын

Yeah you might just be a Karen and your bad Karen parenting made your kid fo shitty things and face consequences when it should have been you in the cop car. Other people's kids I guess.

@kaushikiyer4881

Жыл бұрын

@matt yes. They're a kid. A fucking kid

@dragonchiId

Жыл бұрын

@matt Who should give a bloody shit if even an adult runs through sprinklers?

@SilverMe2004

Жыл бұрын

This is so nuts that the only way I can make senses of it is that he set the sprinklers up inside How does anyone get arrested for running through sprinklers?

@snoopy_peanuts_77

Жыл бұрын

@@SilverMe2004 they do it for anything..unfortunately americans are s up cop culture arse they cant see straight to the blue line thats taken over their flag

In my high school biology class a friend carved “Ryan Cole is a delinquent” onto a desk, and for years I had people behind me in school, friends of my younger sisters, and for all I know kids today thinking I was, in fact a delinquent. That is how legends are created. I was actually a good kid.

The SRO in a New Hampshire school where I worked refused to wear a mask, and encouraged students not to wear masks when masks were mandated both by the governor and the school department. It took the school months to get him out of there

Ultimately, America is too obsessed with the idea of “Law Enforcement” rather then “Public Safety”

@bobjones2041

2 жыл бұрын

"we need to lock up anyone who disagrees with us for starters, then go after anyone they talked to in the last four weeks just to make sure"

@Aaron-os8qi

2 жыл бұрын

Ya, look at the ubiquitous assaults, theft, and store heists in LA for a shining example of the "public safety" that occurs when you tie the hands of law enforcement.

@-raist

2 жыл бұрын

@@Aaron-os8qi You mean like how the cops in TX waited almost an hour to go in; while the kid had a firing spree?

@Aaron-os8qi

2 жыл бұрын

@@-raist You can't take one incident as prof of outcome in every situation. However, that is the narrative this video is pushing that: cops don't ever help. I would also ask, "how many crimes don't occur because a security officer is there?" Those are the statistics you can't measure, and so, they often go ignored.

@jschuler53

2 жыл бұрын

@@Aaron-os8qi IT has been proven time and time again when there is an armed security person the shooter goes for that person FIRST. This happened at the shooting at a bar right after The Tree of Life Shooting in a Synogogue in Pgh. If you are in military M.O you go for the guy with the gun first. It's just plain stupid. The police are afraid to go in but they want teachers --who were trained for something completely different--to now use a gun. These police are pussies who didn't go in. If they are not going to use their gun when you need to, take it away and defund them just standing around waiting.

I remember being in High School and the 3 SRO’s ALWAYS doing searches with the dogs. They always ALWAYS picked on this kid from a bad home who just didn’t have direction in life. Instead of seeing him as someone who needed another perspective on life they saw him as a criminal in the making. We need to change. We need reform in this country. This is unacceptable.

@xyrus345

2 жыл бұрын

I remember being in high school and there was no such thing as an SRO. I also remember when the NRA was pro-gun control and pro-gun safety. My how times have changed, and not for the better.

@kokorochacarero8003

2 жыл бұрын

I remember being in high school and not seeing a single police officer or violent criminal ever set foot on the building. I listen to americans talk about this kind of topic and to me they sound like they live in an entirely different planet where human logic doesn't apply

@hansolo6695

2 жыл бұрын

Its just sad that there are cops in US schools. And its just ridiculous how low the profile is to become a cop in general in the US.

@rubberducky893

2 жыл бұрын

I went to high school in Philly. I remember seeing STMs putting handcuffs on a student. One time, they put their body weight on a 15 year old girl. Nothing can excuse that. The dean also further silence the students & the teachers that stood against it. Teachers suddenly had gotten new jobs outside of the state. A teacher up & left without a word one time. Other teachers were racist, colorist, misogynistic & bigots. They would pick on students & teachers who were LGBTQ+. There were STMs using disgusting vocabulary towards the girls in the school. Some had copped a feel. Others made them uncomfortable. The school created such a toxic environment that many students didn't want to come back to school. They were blamed by it as well. The counselors were useless.

@oswaldcannon9483

2 жыл бұрын

SO TRUE. Every week we had to put our back packs into the hall and lock ourselfs in the classrooms until each dog and officer went through each bag.

School police man tried to drag me into a loud auditorium while I was having an autistic meltdown because I had an ear infection and it was very loud in there. I was screaming absolute bloody murder because there’s a man trying to drag me Also when I was sexually assaulted by another student he came to my house and harassed me about it. And invited himself into the house because the front door was unlocked.

Stories make me think about how lucky I was in school. When I was young, I had bad anger issues; I yelled at people, ran out of the classroom, even threw punches sometimes. I'm not excusing my behavior, but I was just a kid who needed help, and thankfully I got it. People who didn't know me in elementary school are shocked when I say I had anger issues. But imagine if an SRO came to handle the situation every time I lost my temper instead of a trusted counselor. Would I, an 8 year old, had been arrested instead of getting the help I needed?

@tad7441

5 ай бұрын

Yeah many of these stories make me happy I was homeschooled.

I’m blind, and when I was in middle school, the campus officers stopped me all the time because they thought my cane with some sort of weapon. For those who don’t know, one of the techniques for using a cane, is to move the tip back and forth across the ground in an arc about shoulder width. One of the officers actually got me in trouble and accused me of waving it around like a weapon and purposely trying to hit students. And this was about 12 years ago, I can’t imagine how bad it’s gotten today.

@mermaidismyname

2 жыл бұрын

Okay that is excessively stupid my god The fact that a cop doesn't know what a blind person's cane is is horrifying

@allanknox8216

2 жыл бұрын

Show how stupid and untrained they are. At least that can be fixed.

@yourmother9834

2 жыл бұрын

There was a blind girl at my school who got harassed too and the halls were way too crowded I never understood why she didn’t go to class like 5 minutes before the bell rang so she didn’t have to deal with the traffic. So stressful. I remember an ignorant kid threatening to fight her because she “hit” her with her cane.

@pratikkawade4861

2 жыл бұрын

@@mermaidismyname it's not that they are stupid. It's the fact that absolute power corrupts people, makes them tyranical. The fact that they don't have to face consequence makes it worse.

@lentrax2991

2 жыл бұрын

@@mermaidismyname No, they know. They just got trained to not give a shit.

When I was in HS, a substitute teacher thought my friends and I were eating pot brownies and called the school SROs on us. About 7 of them, all with guns, came and pulled us out of the classroom. My friend, who sold regular chocolate brownies, had his back pack searched. Then, they humiliated him by saying he wasn’t going to make enough money for college by selling brownies and he was going to end up “flipping burgers.” The worst part is we were in a class that was solely for advanced minority students whose parents were poor. I was so shaken by this incident and it took years for me to come to terms with the fact that it was WRONG and that my friends and I had been racially profiled.

@DimaRakesah

2 жыл бұрын

Holy fuck that is horrible. Kids can't even eat some fucking brownies without being harassed?

@goldbraecky

2 жыл бұрын

Wow I can't even put into words how wrong that was.... just wow....

@Zurround

2 жыл бұрын

Did you end up with a permanent arrest record that would prevent you from getting into college?

@yousigiltube

2 жыл бұрын

I honestly don't understand this strange mentality Americans have of overblowing every situation. Sure, you probably didn't like the situation and their intervention but 'so shaken by this incident and it took YEARS for me to come to TERMS' sounds kind of insane for some cops just being a bit jerky. They thought the kids were doing drugs, they over reacted, it's not a good thing but by damn do some people have issues with authority. It sounds like you could get triggered at a heart beat if you're not the one able to control the officers instead of the other way around. Heavy handed policing is a bit scary if they actually do something but it sounds like they made fun of your friend unfairly and you took years to somehow process that. It's downright freaky how unhinged people can be that the most minor cases trigger them for years.

@Joe-gw9wh

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I went to a public highschool in SoCal in a predominantly Hispanic, liberal area and there were 9 total armed officers on campus some who wore body armor. The NRA acting as if there isn’t a heavy presence of law enforcement especially in democratic states is so incorrect.

When I was in elementary school, one of the kids in my class got dragged out of the classroom by an SRO because she wasn’t listening to the teacher. Mind you, this girl obviously had stuff going on at home, was 9 years old, and had *adhd* . What made it worse was she was one of the only four of us black kids in the *entire* school. Instead of my teacher getting her help (also quick note, we had no counselors) or at least putting her foot down as the adult or even just explain to the girl why she should at least consider listening, our teacher instead called the SRO. When the girl refused to go with him, he called another officer and they both dragged her out of the classroom as she screamed and cried. Considering the fact that I had to deal with a lot of racism from that school, watching her get dragged away like that by the SROs scared the shit out of me not only because it was horrible, but also because I though I was next if I ever so much as told my teacher “no”.

Yeah, I’m a mentally disabled student, and can confirm that this shit actually happens. (I have ASD, BPD, PDD, ADHD, CPTSD, and GAD) I’d have daily panic attacks in school, went nonverbal, had shutdowns and meltdowns, and the SROs made everything worse. I was terrified of them hurting me for some bs reason, and cause I was mentally disabled, they’d follow me around. One time I was being bullied on Halloween and they took away my cardboard mask/axe and LOCKED DOWN the hallway, trapping me in the stairwell while I was desperately trying to not go into an episode, because I was scared of what they would do to me if I openly showed any “negative” emotions. It’s why I had to leave the school, I fucking hate it all.

@charlx8979

Жыл бұрын

Cops are just school bullied who grew up And who else would be a favoured victim for bullies than the non neurotypical kids Police in school is just giving them a chance to continue their career bullying kids, and giving them a gun and laws that means they can do pretty much anything, including shoot you, and get away with it

@charlx8979

Жыл бұрын

School bullies*

@Blewlongmun

Жыл бұрын

This is not the point, but I'm currently heavily considering getting an ASD and PTSD diagnosis on top of my childhood depression, ADHD, and GAD ones. It's feels wrong or silly to assume I could have so many developmental disorders because I've generally been passing my whole life. Point being, you type like I think, normalizing these things is important and your comment helped me. Mental health specifically is being treated much more carefully in recent years, racism and homo/transphobia require a little extra work but I do have hope and have seen strides made for neurodivergent people. The more people learn the more comfortable they are speaking out and teaching others about what they/we need, it will get better!

@helixisverygay7831

Жыл бұрын

@@Blewlongmun glad I could be of help, and good luck with getting your diagnosis. (:

@morganmatthews2222

8 ай бұрын

Bullshit

"Oh no my good bitch, that very much is your business." is my new favorite John Oliver line.

@jaipiepeach

Жыл бұрын

I WAS LOOKING FOR YOU!! I *needed* there to be someone else who caught & celebrated this. 😆😂😂

@Eric-sk2yh

Жыл бұрын

Yo Factsssss i had to know I wasn’t alone in thinking about that line😂😂

@jasonfuentz8717

Жыл бұрын

I don't know I thought calling him a budget Bill Murray was even funnier.

@andrewolsen2319

Жыл бұрын

Oh my good bitch, that is very much your business - made me laugh out loud! Budget Bill Murray also classic.

@danibeautylove

Жыл бұрын

I haven't laughed as loud as I've laughed at that line in years

I worked at a middle school that had metal detectors, two SRO’s, and 7 security guards. It felt dystopian. More like a cold prison than a school.

@mtb3803

2 жыл бұрын

Really?! Man! 😳 I’m so glad I’m from Europe. I can’t imagine what’s it like to go to school in those conditions .. I’m really sorry to hear that..

@flyingdutchman1352

2 жыл бұрын

What country? Russia? China?

@ilenastarbreeze4978

2 жыл бұрын

jesus that seems horrific

@Grillmaster33

2 жыл бұрын

@@flyingdutchman1352 America, of course.

@screamingphoenix8113

2 жыл бұрын

Schools are literally now built similarly to prisons. They are designed so that its as hard as possible for an escapee to have free movement throughout a prison.

The absolute state of schools in the US is absolutely tragic

When I was a teen in 2006, I and a hundred other kids were on campus “after hours” for band camp. We were playing on the unused football field, running in sprinklers and throwing a deflated football. Our band teacher said we could be there. Within 20 minutes, 3 police cars raced up and skidded to a stop, lights ablaze. A lot of kids freaked out and ran, and it caused a stampede of panic. Several kids tore flesh trying to jump a fence; one kid dislocated an ankle. Even though our teacher had cleared it, this was our school, we were at an official event, and we were not doing any vandalism or dangerous activity- we could’ve been arrested for “evading the police”. If my school had been any less white, kids could’ve been shot for that. This was in 2006. This has been going on for a while.

Can you imagine anything more pathetic than a grown man who, for a career, goes back to school to bully children?

@andrewbaker730

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. A lot of them are called teachers

@spongeintheshoe

Жыл бұрын

A society that allows that to be a viable career option.

@neond6740

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I've met gym teachers before.

@voltjmgaming2119

Жыл бұрын

That officer is being hit by a child and they cry.

@Chrisko1492

7 ай бұрын

Yes. A country called USA that claims to be 1st world but has a society like a 3rd world shithole. THAT‘S more pathetic than a grown man bullying children.

America: "It's not everyday you hear of the campus police officer taking on a role in the school play". Rest of the world: It's not everyday you hear the phrase "campus police officer", what is going on over there guys?

@edwardkrawczak8927

Жыл бұрын

A lot of really, terrible awful things are going on here. A lot.

@sixstringedthing

Жыл бұрын

@@edwardkrawczak8927 I don't say this lightly, despite it being a KZread Comment[TM]... but if you have the means, education and employability to get out of the US by any means necessary, you're absolutely fucking mad to not be making emmigration plans for just about anywhere else in the developed world at this point. Please, we beg of you... come and join any of the civil democracies in which the rights of the public still have some chance of being fairly represented. It's so much better. And my sincere sympathies to those who don't have the option and must stay behind to watch and suffer while their gloriously exceptional nation implodes. This ideological war is going to call for a huge bill in human suffering, and it's a goddamn tragedy. Help in any way you can. But once you're tapped out, get out.

@edwardkrawczak8927

Жыл бұрын

@@sixstringedthing well, of course the idea occurs to us, but like so many people in bad places around the world it's never so easy. We have siblings, parents, children. Moving takes resources, which this capitalist hellscape has done a good job of depriving people of. You're right, getting out of here is ideal, but it's a lot easier said than done.

@randomdbagwithguitar5691

Жыл бұрын

@@sixstringedthing I'm seriously thinking about it now, this country is going to further shit day by day.

@sixstringedthing

Жыл бұрын

@@edwardkrawczak8927 Hey mate, I fully understand the realities of "just upping and leaving" and the fact that if it were just that bloody easy, more people would be doing it. Apologies if my reply sounded like it was preaching to the choir mate, best wishes to your and family in these harsh times.

Scrubbing, sanding and revarnishing desks was classic detention work in my old school (UK). One ink pen picture of a pretty girl was so good, it was just varnished over to immortalise it!

The whole idea of schools having armed guards and metal detectors is absolutely insane to me. It's like something from Orwell.

@ChaseVaccaro-ge3gk

7 ай бұрын

I assume more 1984 than Animal Farm?

American gun nuts be like: "I'm against government oversight and tyranny, which is why I want an armed government officer in every school in the country."

@funveeable

Жыл бұрын

American Democrats be like: "I'm for defunding police but I'm not going to stop having 20 guards with guns around me and my family at all times. If you have a problem, call 911."

@Samantha_yyz

Жыл бұрын

@@funveeable are you talking about like secret service? Politicians kinda need them cuz they are a face fire things ppl deeply hate and want to assassinate. Normal ppl don't need protection. In fact most ppl as naturally afraid when they see someone with a gun, cuz it's a device with the express purpose of killing. And you have no idea of that person will try to hurt you with it. So all you know is they have a device they're for committing harm and are currently not using it. That doesn't mean they won't

@Game_Hero

Жыл бұрын

@@funveeable Your whataboutism doesn't make his argument less valid. Better luck next time, reactionnary.

@JohnDoe-bd5sz

Жыл бұрын

Yeah and now females do not get to decide over their own body either, and next up is plan B pills and birth control pills. Sorry, but the US seems more and more like a third world country to me.

@funveeable

Жыл бұрын

@@Game_Hero so what? I have a gun and my police are funded. I fear nothing at this point. Ask the people of San Francisco who seem to enjoy crime whether or not they agree with what's happening there.

Officers aren't there to make anything safer. They're there so if something terrible happens, the school district is not blamed. It's not the students' line of defense, it's the district's.

@outdoorcoaching

2 жыл бұрын

This seems very true sir.

@Nuanced717

2 жыл бұрын

That’s perfectly stated. It’s about CYA. Great insight.

@Wolverines77

2 жыл бұрын

So, they hire tubs of lard who would be so out of breath and doubled over when they got there that nothing would get done... Don't think so...

@bigdaddi1629

2 жыл бұрын

Well said

@sands7779

2 жыл бұрын

to protect the school against legal damages

i had so much contact with police in school just for being autistic in a way my teachers found annoying because like that teacher said most of the staff would default to calling the police instead of dealing with it in literally any other way. i'd get threatened with arrest for things like stimming or going into autistic shutdown, the former i had very little control over and the latter i had no control over at all. thankfully they never made good on these threats but it's like they thought they could intimidate or bully me into being "normal". i never had an officer not be awful to me about it either; none of them ever went "wow there's clearly something going on with this kid. i should try a gentler approach." it's a career that attracts bullies and they're going to bully children just as much as they bully adults and the more vulnerable that child is the worse they're going to be.

When I was in highschool my school was one of the highest crime rates in the area and not one fight was broken up by the SRO. He for some reason was always conveniently somewhere else. But if you had a vape he would sniff that shit out and arrest you

@ChaseVaccaro-ge3gk

7 ай бұрын

Of course the school police act just like normal police, focusing on taking the drugs instead of anything useful.

The most bizarre aspect of this whole thing is the fact that an arrest that didn't lead to conviction shows up on your record and can harm you in the future. So much for innocent until proven guilty...

@darcyrobbs6866

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that needs changed.

@bobxyzp

2 жыл бұрын

Right? Should be “found guilty of a crime” not “arrested”

@Zzyzzyzzs

2 жыл бұрын

Mostly for people of a certain colour too. I know several Americans who have charges on their record, ranging from misdemeanors like public urination and DUIs to pretty serious drug offenses. One guy I know was one arrest away from going away for a long time (Texas, marijuana, two strikes, you know the rest); it didn't stop him (or most of the rest of them) from moving on with their lives, developing careers and becoming productive members of society. In his case he left the country on a scholarship and eventually got a PhD. You won't need to guess what race most of them are, and that of the one who, for 10 years, still had no firm job (three who hired him quickly fired him when they belatedly realised he had a criminal record from decades ago) and luckily managed to get sponsored to live in Canada where he's been able to build some sort of life.

@katies6374

2 жыл бұрын

does anyone know, i thought criminal records were expunged at 18, so does it really matter very long? sorry im genuinely curious, i could be an idiot here. I guess for like jobs at 17, 18 or college? of course i agree these small misdemeanors shouldn't be on the record anyway, especially if they don't lead to an arrest and conviction, but there is an expunction in all these cases yes?

@ZombiLady16

2 жыл бұрын

@@katies6374 You have to ask for that from a judge in court when you turn 18. Records are automatically sealed for a minor only when the minor is a victim of a heinous crime like CP or SA.

When I was in middle school, my student resource officer sat my 6th grade class down, looked us dead in the eye, and said they would SHOOT us if we pulled a water gun on them as a prank. So much trust building. So much.

@purplepixie274

Жыл бұрын

😳

@theguywhoisaustralian1465

Жыл бұрын

Why tf would you pull anything that even resembles a gun on a police officer?

@chaosprince8291

Жыл бұрын

@@theguywhoisaustralian1465 Missed the point. No one actually did it. None of the kids even suggested it. He just said that he would. Unprompted.

@theguywhoisaustralian1465

Жыл бұрын

@@chaosprince8291 I understood perfectly, thank you for checking tho

@Mama_Bear524

Жыл бұрын

@@theguywhoisaustralian1465 why would a cop shoot a kid for that? Be mad! Be annoyed. Send them to the principal and have a serious talk with them. But don’t shoot!!

I live in Germany and school shootings happen very, VERY rarely. The one that did happen during my schooltime (not at my school) was something very tragic and outstanding. It is not a daily threat. That a country can have hundreds of shootings each year, numbers increasing, and not do the one sane thing to stop it, is wild to me

@kylelibby2241

2 ай бұрын

Yup it's wild to us too :(

In Latvia we can't even buy fireworks without a hunter's licence. You'd be surprised that there's no shooting's here😅

I work at a pet store and I can honestly say that throwing large towels over birds is actually very effective at catching them

@cchristinefan

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@oneearthmerged6855

2 жыл бұрын

💜

@Mondfischli

2 жыл бұрын

...do them birds go ballistic?😆

@matthewmcallister9354

2 жыл бұрын

☺

@kingjamos2422

2 жыл бұрын

It's true. I think that's how HBO keeps catching John when he escapes the void.

“Oh no my good bitch, that is very much your business” is a powerful sentence

When I first joined my secondary school I'd just been moved in, the teachers didn't bother to get me my own login account for the computers and the teachers just wandered around past me for 25 minutes while I had my hand up, so the person next to me logged me into their account just so I could do something, and suddenly the teachers paid attention, and we got a personal 10 minute lecture on how we were committing fraud and it could easily result in jail time as we had been caught committing a crime on the cameras. She told us about how many years in prison we could be sentenced to... like... come on, cut us some god damn slack. I was like 12.

The highschool I went to had two SRO's, who's names I frankly dont remember because I never interacted with them, but it also had a couple of security guards, on of whom was named Goardy. And I'll say this, everybody loved Goardy. The other security guards were fine and we all liked them fine enough as well, but Goardy was truly something special. And not a single kid I remember has good memories of the SRO's. Everyones memories of the SRO's was them walking around with guns on their hips, poking their noses into innocent conversations, and just gernally being intimidating and frightening. Goardy on the other hand was actually trained for his job, and did all the things SRO's are supposed to do, but with none of the intimidation factor that is funadmentally inherent to what the police are as an institution. If you were having a bad day, you could talk to Goardy. If another kid was bullying you, you could talk to Goardy. Hell, me and a couple of my friends once got caught smoking weed out back of the school by Goardy, but he didnt know who had what on them, and when we all individually were brought to the principle and didnt snitch on our friends (even though it was already so apparent what had happened) Goardy looked me in the eye and said, and I swear I am not lying about this, "Listen man, we all know what happened. But I respect you for standing up for your friends to the bitter end." I still think about that regularly, the school security guard looked me in the eye and said 'hey you did something wrong and its my job to punish you for that, but I respect you for not backing down and standing up for your friends.' Goardy was a truly good man who truly did his job with nothing but respect and honor, and clearly took great pride in being a part of the educational process, teaching us kids what is and is not acceptable, but also in his own weird way teaching us that a little mischief from time to time is OK, so long as you arent causing any real harm. Anyhow, my highschool was never great, there was a lot of drugs in my town and a lot of kids in that school came from rough families and rough areas, but they have since shut down the whole program they had for the security guards they had there where they trained them really well to be resources for the kids as much as the people you called in if a big brawl happened in the halls. Which did happen a couple of times while I was there. But they shut down whatever program it was that they had for Goardy and his two colleagues to be there in favor of bringing in two more SRO's, about a year after I graduated. And from what I understand of the culture of that school now, while it was never great, its a lot worse now. Now they have drug sniffing dogs in the school, and kids are more scared of being in school, because they are afraid that by getting into trouble its not going to be Goardy coming along to take them to the principles office and maybe tell them what they did was dumb, instead its going to be and SRO who comes along and puts them in the back of a squad car.

My wife taught at a school where the SRO threatened to arrest and charge a victim is sexual abuse with rape because the victim herself was underage. The vice principal and my wife lost her shit on the officer, accused the officer of overstepping her role as SRO, so the PD stopped placing an SRO in the school. As a result, security incidents in the school continued to never happen.

@Zurround

2 жыл бұрын

NO offense meant but your grammar is hard for me to follow. Are you saying that he arrested someone for rape? That is pretty serious. But because of your grammar I cannot really understand your comments. Raping someone who is underaged is horrific though.

@matttorres5510

2 жыл бұрын

@@Zurround I think they're saying that the SRO said they would charge the person with "Statutory" rape (underage sex) as a threat to convince the person to not pursue action against another person for sexual assault.

@matttorres5510

2 жыл бұрын

Never happen meaning like they swept stuff under the rug or they prevented stuff from happening.

@Zurround

2 жыл бұрын

@@matttorres5510 How is being the VICTIM of sexual assault statutory rape? You are not making any sense? Plus I think its only statutory rape if one partner is significantly older? If 2 sixteen year olds sleep with each other then do you have 2 rapists and 2 victims at the same time? Its a legal paradox?

@matttorres5510

2 жыл бұрын

@@Zurround honestly we're going off very limited info. That's just what it sounded like to me. Lots of could'ves.

“Oh no, my good bitch” is about to become my new favorite way of correcting someone. Again Oliver nails the heart of the problem.

@rock-n-rollfoodie

2 жыл бұрын

LMAO John’s way with words is legendary!

Under nearly every John Oliver show I could write how glad I am living in the EU and not the backward USA

@sachadee.6104

4 ай бұрын

yes. Agreed. (from an ex European now living in Canada).

When I was going to school in the 90s we only ever saw police officers at school for the DARE program.

@leonideschnuppe

Жыл бұрын

Did you get one of these pencils from the DARE program? I heard this pencils were kind of legendary because of a anti-dr*g-slogan on them you could turn into a pro-dr*g-slogan by sharping it 🤔

We are now living in a world where a child says "School Is a prison" and ACTUALLY HAS A POINT.

@moneymanjoe9639

2 жыл бұрын

Prison is safer.

@nomennisceo6495

2 жыл бұрын

@@moneymanjoe9639 statistically, your right

@facufeg86

2 жыл бұрын

not "in a world". More like in a (crazy) country called Usa.

@lotoreo

2 жыл бұрын

>Foucault entered chat

@zarnaku6467

2 жыл бұрын

@@christinalaw3375 Jesus a whole platoon in every school.... I think That'd be almost more than us army personnel

"Teachers get apples because an apple a day keeps the doctor away, and we don't have the money to go to the doctor" (from my wife, who is a teacher)

@fazziebear

Жыл бұрын

A tragedy of life generally, low pay for a fundamental service is abhorrent. Doctors/surgeons/nurses, teachers, are fundamental should be paid enough and most importantly valued enough to care and not get burnt out and walk away… seen that too many time with good teachers and good medical staff…. Imagine not giving those that teach our kids or look after us and the elderly what they deserve…..and my message to the politicians is don’t add a cop to the schools, fund the schools and give the kids a life changing education…. They might not come back and shoot everyone

@jasonfuentz8717

Жыл бұрын

@@fazziebear TBF, surgeons are paid incredibly well and other doctors are quite handsomely rewarded.

@fuzzyhair321

Жыл бұрын

I'm a nurse in another country my state government wants to give us a medal for our work in covid. Fuck me this pissed me off

@elmateo77

Жыл бұрын

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average salary for elementary school teachers is $61,350, and most teaching jobs come with health insurance and pto. It's getting old having teachers whine about low pay when they're paid better than most people, especially for only working 9 months out of the year.

@darlenelarochelle4011

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for explaining that. I have always wondered..... Makes perfect sense now.

At my high school we had a full time police officer. I also had 2 classes where there were not enough desks, so if everyone showed up someone had to sit on the floor. I’m not exaggerating. I had to sit on the floor because there weren’t enough desks. For reference - I graduated in 2018.

I feel so bad for that 5 year old with adhd that got arested.. Having adhd myself i cant imagine how traumatising that mustve been for the kid Absolutely insane that stuff like this even happens how the fk can you arrest a 5 year old for anything???

When "Don't take away my guns" carries more weight than "Don't take away my children", we know we have a serious problem of conscience in the country.

@orlock20

Жыл бұрын

This is about shock and not safety. 100 children die year riding their bicycles and 12 youth commit suicides every day. Meanwhile there have been 154 active school shooters that have killed 637 people and wounded 1,700 people since 1970. There are 130,000 K-12 schools in the U.S. on top of all the trade schools, colleges and universities.

@JABRIEL251

Жыл бұрын

@@orlock20 Fair Point...or it would be if guns weren't the leading cause of death for children in this country. Mass shootings are just an attention grabbing way of showing what already happens. Yeah Mass Shootings are are less than other causes of death if you narrow your data like that, but they are just a fraction of the gun death total. Take your bike statistic; it'd be like only measuring the bike deaths in a triathlon, instead of the year.

@orlock20

Жыл бұрын

@@JABRIEL251 The number one cause of death among children is vehicle accidents and automobiles have no protection in the U.S. Constitution.

@JABRIEL251

Жыл бұрын

@@orlock20 I mean neither did guns until VERY recently, but no. It used to be automobiles, but auto deaths have since been supplanted by gun deaths. Admittedly, they are close to the point where a year can be either, but right now its guns.

@laurenwalker1048

Жыл бұрын

@@orlock20 no matter what, no child should have to worry about being gunned down in their school. No person should be afraid of doing their groceries or attending a crowded day out. Watching from the outside, this is NOT normal and is absolutely a problem that *can* be fixed with legislation. I don’t think anyone in America should be trying to argue that this isn’t a problem, a few years ago the death count for children who died by guns surpassed the death count for children who died in car accidents. It is not normal and it’s not how people should have to live in a functioning democracy. It’s pretty clear that American democracy has failed though.

My autistic son was charged with a felony when he said his mother was going to kill him over a poor grade so he ought to just get it over with and kill himself now. He was charged with terroristic threats of killing himself. He was actually convicted too. This was in Kansas 10 years ago. He was never Able to attend college because of the felony and it has severely affected his life in so many ways. This isn’t even a rare thing. Cops gave absolutely no business being in schools.

@rebeccanascimento8234

Жыл бұрын

What the actual f*+&£ , this is the most absurd thing I’ve ever heard 😭sue their ass

@angelamaryquitecontrary4609

Жыл бұрын

I, too, have a son with autism. Fortunately, we live in the UK. (And it's not often I count myself lucky on that account.) He has had amazing education throughout, and is at a wonderful programme now as an adult, and lives at home with us. I am so, so sorry that your son and you had to go through that. Sending you virtual hugs.

@audreyh6628

Жыл бұрын

That is so beyond disgusting...I can barely believe it. I hope he manages to have a good life regardless of this horrific mistreatment

@robinb9036

Жыл бұрын

My heart goes out to you.

@DirtyLifeLove

Жыл бұрын

He may have inadvertently added "everyone" and then himself(at least that would be in the police report, cops lie, but I can't imagine they would arrest a suicidal kid, unless you had a deranged cop). I still agree they shouldn't make that in itself a crime. He should have gotten help

a close friend of mine got bodied and held down by their school police because they tried to not be restrained while having a manic episode. school police are not a solution they are a problem and at times a danger.

I'm a former public school Sped teacher: Public school is the most dangerous place you can send your children. If not from the violence and verbal abuse of other students, than the aggression and stupidity of the adults

My son is autistic and has ADHD. One day at his new school he was told by the after school program organizer to go home cuz he wouldn't stop running around the gym. They kicked him out. Just kicked him out of the school and no one called me. He had a panic attack and accidentally scraped the paint on a teacher's car. He was arrested. The cops called me, told me what he'd done and that he was at the police station. He is an extremely curious and friendly kid, so he was having fun talking to the police about different things, they were so great at the police station. He didn't understand what he did wrong, or why the cops took him from school, and thankfully the school police officer had an autistic daughter and helped him. They didn't book him, and the teacher refused to press charges. However, because it was on school property, the school district charged him with destruction of property and something else regarding violence. We ended up in court for THREE YEARS trying to fight the charge and get him the help he needed to put him in a school he would actually thrive in. Thankfully he was given a scholarship and attended a private school for children with issues like his. He graduated and now works in healthcare.

@anandsharma7430

2 жыл бұрын

Good Lord, what a bunch of power tripping self righteous Nazis in the school district from your story.

@jomama3849

2 жыл бұрын

That’s why public schools need to be defunded, no help for students

@utubefreshie

2 жыл бұрын

OMG. What an effin nightmare! So sorry you had to go through that. I don't have children. I chose not to have any. I have never been more grateful for making that choice because I don't think I could ever raise children in a kind of country America is turning into. I would just be pathologically anxious for their safety and well-being both physical and mental every day. I applaud all parents who can do it. I don't think I could ever put my child, if I had one, in an American public school. I would have to homeschool or send them to private school or send them to my home country which although poor, mass shootings don't happen every day! Only in America! And it is horrible that we have a small minority of citizens who would prioritize guns over our children! I hope things get better for this country's children one day.

@AlwaysANemesis

2 жыл бұрын

@@jomama3849 What a completely ass-backwards answer. You funnel _more_ money out of the public system, and you're going to have the same problems alongside the addition of a critical lack of resources, with even worse-paid teachers and _far less_ of them; we already have a shortage of qualified educators, it's not gonna get better when Coach Bubba from P.E. has to triple-down as both the students' English and Math teacher.

@theonegoldengryphon

2 жыл бұрын

@@jomama3849 Like private schools would be any better?

When I was in highschool, there was a fight between two students (No weapons involved, no one was hurt, not a major fight) The SRO decided the best way to stop the fight was to release the entire canister of his police grade pepper spray down the hall. The entire hallway had to be evacuated. The two kids fighting got more injured from the SRO than each other. And multiple kids had asthma attacks from it, some of which did not have their inhalers on hand and were forced to take the long walk, outside in the heat (because they couldnt get back in through the hallway) to the front office to get their inhaler. SROs are just cops with even less empathy for kids.

@soiledhalo2296

2 жыл бұрын

🤬

@malarkyy

2 жыл бұрын

@@selfhelp321 Not exactly but if you wanna look at it that way lmao

@christopherbedford9897

2 жыл бұрын

"SROs are just cops with even less empathy for kids" - and, probably, less capable than average cops, because what officer would prefer to be a school beat cop? Probably those who are past retirement age, or overweight and unable to hack it as real patrol officers, or too thick to pass advancement exams, or whose commanding officers just don't want them on the actual police force because they're just useless. Or all of the above. Yeah, _those_ are the right people to put in schools.

@christopherbedford9897

2 жыл бұрын

@@selfhelp321 😆 Whereas you have so much that you are prepared to make judgements like that with no evidence at all. Troll.

@friedrice207

2 жыл бұрын

ACAB

As a canadian, I still remember how shocked I was the first time I went to a bank in the US and saw an armed cop or security guard just standing there. I have never seen any security guard at any local branch of a bank in Canada. Ever. And I never had a shooting drill in school either. They gave us little plastic things to tape to the door windows in case of a shooting... and these ended up in the trash after a week cause no one needs them. However, when we had the Dawson College shooting, cops that were nearby and probably had never unholstered their guns outside of training, ran inside and dealt with the shooter right away unlike in Uvalde. American cops are trash.

I was not easy to deal with when I was in elementary school. I have ADHD and in kindergarten I was incredibly impulsive. I once head butted a kid I liked for no reason and tried to attack another kid with a pool noodle in PE. I thankfully got diagnosed with ADHD and got the extra help and accommodations I needed and turned out perfectly fine. But I’m pretty sure if it weren’t for the fact I was a little white blonde girl with a reputation as normally being well meaning and having a teacher that was experienced in handling ADHD kids I wouldn’t have been diagnosed and instead be labeled a problem child and left to the police to deal with. Kids with special needs can be hard to deal with and sometimes extreme impulsivity can be dangerous but really all kids like me needed is help and patience.

Yes, more cops in schools. That way when it happens again, instead of having 20 of them hiding from the gunman, there can be 40.

@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460

2 жыл бұрын

Preach the truth, Zufall!!!!! 💯🙌👍😥

@Lapantouflemagic0

2 жыл бұрын

stupidest thing is that if you want to shoot your school, i suppose you'd start by gunning down the police officer.

@DrFunk-rk6yl

2 жыл бұрын

Well somebody has to make the runs for coffee and donuts.

@Time_Is_Left

2 жыл бұрын

That’s completely unfair. They weren’t hiding from the gunman. They were just getting the parents under control first. You know, they were working their way up to it. /s

@eightytwo946

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

When I was in high school I took College Credit Plus classes which basically meant that I got to HS 2 hours late every morning because my day started at our local university. An important thing to note is that it was the high school paying for my tuition and I had every right to go to my locker before the rest of the students. However, that also meant that every morning I was in the hall by myself the resource officer harassed me incessantly. Every single day he’d ask to see a pass - knowing full well I didn’t have one - and every single day I would have to walk with him to the office just for them to tell him to leave me alone. Every single day. All I did was go to college part time.

@dcgregorya5434

2 жыл бұрын

Ridiculous. Not for nothing but "adult" security is handled by security guards...who are very nice to you because you work for the company that pays them and its their job. No idea why a school would instead hire something closer to prison guards who are there to arrest you rather than security guards who are there to improve safety.

@arachnid33

Жыл бұрын

That is not ok. Sorry that happened to you. Honestly, he was probably jealous of you. Going to college young like that when he probably never went.

@dbone3356

Жыл бұрын

@@dcgregorya5434 I mean... You aren't wrong. But also, because they won't do anything when something goes down. That isn't their job.

@dcgregorya5434

Жыл бұрын

@@dbone3356 All they have to do is not let someone get inside. In most modern buildings that just means not enabling the elevator for the intruder but a locking front door is good enough as well. Don't need superheroes just common sense security.

@dbone3356

Жыл бұрын

@@dcgregorya5434 Not sure how much, or how little having a functioning elevator is going to deter someone. Unless they're in a wheelchair, or on crutches. In which case, it should be fairly fucking easy to run away from them. But most people will just use the stairs to conduct their act of terrorism. But also. Maybe don't have guns so easily accessible. Full stop. Not saying do away with them altogether. But at the same time, there is absolutely no reason a civilian needs an automatic rifle, or an assist rifle or anything like that. "Oh but if the baddies want to get them bad enough, they will." Maybe. But that doesn't mean we can't try to make it more difficult for them to do so. And yeah. Just not let them inside is great. Doesn't help when they get in. Just not letting them have guns would though. But, I'm sure you can't possibly be echoing the B.S that the spineless Ted Cruz did? I mean only having one door, really? Yeah. That'll make it super quick and easy and not at all an inconvenience for hundreds of students to enter every day.

We had an SRO when I was in high school that was clearly there for the power trip. Talked to students as if they were inmates and behaved almost exactly the same way thats discussed here. Just this year, he was arrested in a sting for trying to pay for a child prostitute. This man had assumed authority over high schoolers for years. Obviously this isn't a blanket statement for all SRO's, but knowing what I know now, it's terrifying to think back and remember how much power he had and how he could have possibly abused it more than what we saw.

My high school had SRO's but not a nurse or anything medical. I remember having massive menstrual cramps freshman year (which turned out to be PCOS later) and limping over to the admin building asking where the nurse's office is. Found out they didn't have one. I then asked if there was any sort of medical kit or if any of them had ibuprofen, they said they aren't allowed. The only thing they could do was call my mother to pick me up. For the next few days the SRO that was in the office when I begged for help kept an eye on me like I had some sort of drug problem. It's bad enough dealing with awful periods, but to also have to contain the pain for fear of looking like an addict? Now I'm a music teacher, and I always have a period kit for any student who needs it with pads, tampons, ibuprofen, and chocolate so no girl is left helpless.

@TheREALJosephTurner

5 күн бұрын

You, ma'am, are one of those teachers that young ladies will remember for a lifetime. There really needs to be more like you.

This doesn't even get into the fact that cops aren't legally obligated to protect you as evident in what happened in Uvalde. So, what they really are there for is intimidation, basic rule enforcement, and dealing out punishment (as mentioned). When it comes to real threats like a school shooter(why they were there to begin with) they don't have to do anything to protect the students.

@tysonreuter5788

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, let's let only them have the guns.

@SwearMY

2 жыл бұрын

Like the cops who let a drowning man drown. Horrific.

@jacksevert3099

2 жыл бұрын

Castle Rock vs Gonzalez I believe is the Supreme Court case

@AliceYobby

2 жыл бұрын

I am completely convinced that the Uvalde police shot at least one kid that day. It’s the only thing that makes sense at this point, piecing together their changing stories. It’s likely why the first piece of information the cops released was “he had a handgun”, when he had an AR15, and why they aren’t cooperating with investigators asking for ballistics. What cop would confuse a handgun with an AR15. How did that mistake get made? It wasn’t a mistake. It was a panicked attempt at covering up the real “mistake”.

@sandrajones651

2 жыл бұрын

@@AliceYobby I wouldn’t put it past them

I'm a Norwegian guy that flew to El Paso, Texas to visit my girlfriend at the time. She was an exchange student there for 6 months at this point, and so she wanted to show me her school. I went over in their lunch break, actually got a visitors badge/pass at the entrance, got told that everything was fine after explaining the situation. We calmly walked around in the hallways just chatting, and then after about 2-3 minutes a cop came and waved me over to the exit. Suddenly four more cops came over and surrounded me, and they had clicked open their gun holsters and had their hand on their guns. (I was wearing shorts and a T-shirt.....) The first guy then took my drivers license to make a paper copy of it, and then he told me to leave the school grounds, and if I even turned around, they would see it on their cameras and I would get arrested for trespassing. I had done nothing, and I was even wearing the schools own visitors badge/pass as they did this. In Norway we can literally just casually walk into any classroom in any school and just chill. Nothing bad ever happens. Your schools seem like actual prisons..

@teshlafreeman4040

2 жыл бұрын

They are dangerous prisons now. America seems to be dieing and for some reason they all keep looking the other way..

@SK-tk6bi

2 жыл бұрын

Europe, and Scandinavia in particular, seems to be far more civilized than any other part of the world. America, in contrast, seems far more uncivilized than even some undeveloped countries of the world.

@ninjaked1265

2 жыл бұрын

If you had a visitor’s pass, then you had a right to be there

@LetsbeHonestOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

@@ninjaked1265 Not according to them (randomly) apparently. I didn't feel like starting a beef with cops in a foreign country

@nathanwilliams3877

2 жыл бұрын

Weird. But it also seems very weird to just be able to walk into a school with no business being there. Good thing Mr. Epstein never visited.

In middle school, after a cafeteria food fight, the school cops lined us all (everyone in the cafeteria, not just those who threw food) against the walls with our hands behind our heads like we were gang members. In highschool, I was talking to a "family counselor" about family problems. A family counselor apparently is only there to provide kids with clothes or school supplies they may need to borrow for the day. I talked to this person and was asking if I should call the police on a family member for an incident that previously happened and used the phrase, "pull the trigger". It was clear that the metaphorical trigger was reporting an incident that happened. That person sent me to a person who is supposed to talk about stuff like that. Afterwards, while chatting with my counselor, two cops asked my counselor to leave her own office and they stripped search me (I was allowed to keep my underwear on) and dumped my belongings and locker. It's fucking insane.

Adrian is a legend!

Canadian here. I always assumed when Americans talked about school police, they were referring to a fancy security guard, it never even crossed my mind that you'd have ACTUAL POLICE just in schools at all times

@ronevans6958

10 ай бұрын

yeah for real...that shocks me as a Canadian too..

@dre3004

10 ай бұрын

toronto liver here we have those 😭

@sytherwusky

9 ай бұрын

shocks me as an australian

@lorisreality8681

9 ай бұрын

Oh yes, we have real cops with real guns walking around high schools and middle schools. I actually was questioned by one once for wearing a pink bandana tied into my hair . He honestly thought I was in a gang and asked me to not wear the bandana at school any more because " a bandana is considered gang related paraphernalia." Honestly what gang wears bright pink? The biker Barbies? Lol

'Some things don't look good on camera." Yeah, I imagine it doesn't feel good to have a grown man slam you to the ground and be knocked unconscious, either. Yet the second a room of full of little kids is being shot-up they just stand there.

@jamielondon6436

2 жыл бұрын

Much easier to pick on unarmed children, I suppose. :-(

@roryross3878

2 жыл бұрын

No they don't stand there, they obstruct and abuse the parents who have the guts and motivation to try and actually do something to rescue children. Cops are practically trained to be cowards, someone with a gun is an actual threat, as mentioned unarmed kids are much easier to control.

@ThreaT650

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah the real victim was the police officer who had to deal with the emotional trauma of knocking a student unconscious on the floor. Absolutely amazing stuff.

@Simonsays90

2 жыл бұрын

Except they dont just stand there, they turn around and run away as fast as they can

@amillar7

2 жыл бұрын

Being knocked unconscious indicates a TBI, which can have lasting consequences for learning and employment. That’s not a presence we need.

In British schools we have old infrastructure, no psychologists or therapists or any kind of official medical care apart from a few first aid kits

@TheSameYellowToy

Жыл бұрын

So does that mean if a student gets injured at school, the teachers just use a first aid kit? (Obviously assuming the injury's not bad enough to call an ambulance.) What if a student gets sick at school or needs to take their medication? What if a student starts their first period and doesn't have a pad or tampon? I'm from the US, and all of my K-12 public schools always had a campus nurse on duty every day.

More cops is not the answer

Imagine having a data set large enough to come to statistical conclusions when the data set is "fatal shootings on school ground" What a country. America first indeed.

@CrispyChestnuts

2 жыл бұрын

Ya depending on your definition of "mass shooting", we have more than one a day here. Shockingly, and in spite of that, more than half of all gun-related fatalities in the US are self-inflicted.

@dark14life

2 жыл бұрын

We've had more mass shootings than days in the year so far. 'Murica.

@oneoldgit

2 жыл бұрын

@@CrispyChestnuts Did you not read 'fatal shootings on school ground'

@youtubemoderationtaskforce5583

2 жыл бұрын

3 min in, he's already lying by omission: the 74% figure for legally purchased guns in mass shootings is based on a couple studies that include only 114 mass shootings since like 1982. There is no decided on definition of a mass shooting. Depending on the definition, there are anywhere from 3-168 in a year in the united states. And they only picked 100 or so in a 40 year span? Even if we say there were only 50 on average per year, that would be 2000 mass shootings since 1982. Let's say there were only 10 mass shootings per year. That would still be 400 mass shootings verses the 111 they based the study on. In the best case scenario, they're obviously cherry picking which mass shootings to include in order to make the 74% stat true. Even IF it's true that 74% of mass shooting were from legally obtained guns, the rate of crimes and murders committed with ILLEGAL guns OVERALL is like 94% with illegal guns, NOT legally-obtained. ALSO, mass shooting make up like 1% of all homicides. So, he is taking advantage of emotional stories about mass shootings of kids in order to spin a narrative in your head about gun control because he thinks you're too dumb to understand statistics.

@rotschadel3574

2 жыл бұрын

Face it people of the us. This is who you are. You will never change.

I’m a high school teacher, and we have a resource officer. I can’t imagine ever asking him to get involved in discipline. It blows my mind that there are campuses where the majority of teachers do that.

@TheNeshkey

2 жыл бұрын

I'm a teacher, I love my job, and every now and then, I become super grateful that I'm not working in the U.S. Just the thought of just sitting by and letting a possible brute who has zero training or experience handling groups of children in a school setting on a regular basis is just shocking to me. And all because one of them might come to school on any day and shoot down a bunch of us??? Whoa! Probably, the worst I've ever worried about when interacting with my students is that one of them might try to verbally insult me during a heated discussion, but getting shot, never even crossed my mind that could be a concern for a teacher!

@dRumpfsadouchebag

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheNeshkey only here in the great USA.. the GOP love to see children murdered.. it's so sad.

@mjkittredge

2 жыл бұрын

you'd hope it would be a last resort where some actual crime had taken place

@lynnspring2378

2 жыл бұрын

@@mjkittredge Even then, my first thought would be to call an administrator. They’d make the decision whether or not involve the SRO.

@hugoschkiglitz

2 жыл бұрын

@@mjkittredge actual crime like when there’s a school shooter? They don’t show up for that

Yet again, brilliant and thought provoking. Thank you.

I'm not crying, YOU'RE crying 😭 Kids DESERVE TO BE KIDS👏👏👏 I WISH MORE PARENTS UNDERSTOOD THAT 👏

My son is on the autism spectrum. When he was in middle school (he's now 22) his school had an evacuation for a bomb threat. While the kids were all outside, one of the other students asked my son why they had to leave the building and my son responded, "it's a bomb". The SRO went after my kid for saying, "it's a bomb". Thankfully, my son's teacher heard him and saw the SRO go at him and she intervened. Cops in schools is a bad idea. I'm sick and fucking tired of getting shredded and being accused of being anti-cop because I want cops to get additional training. Cops view EVERYONE as criminals (the same everything is a nail to a hammer). Cops need more and better training, especially cops that deal with kids. Many professions require additional, annual training for CEUs (doctors, nurses, electricians, etc.) so why not cops? Why are they exempt from additional training? Why are they exempt from criticism? They hurt kids. The cops that are in schools aren't there to help kids, they are there to patrol.

@wolftitanreading5308

Жыл бұрын

Hey If morons didn't break the law we wouldn't need them blame those assholes not the cops

@dustyrose192

7 ай бұрын

I honestly though cops did get that much training and was really shocked to find that wasnt the case

@RodneyG669

4 ай бұрын

Those undertrained cops are all given qualified immunity in addition to being so poorly trained.

@markmickman

4 ай бұрын

They're trained that they could be harmed by anyone at any point

@laurencemoore2105

Ай бұрын

Apologies, hit the wrong button by mistake, liked your comment, agree with what you say.

Went to a nice high school with an SRO. School developed an anonymous tip line to crack down on 'crime'. Countless students were pulled out of class and had their rights violated because of the tips. People ended up abusing the anonymous tip line and reporting false evidence. Kids were getting pulled out of class left and right. The entire process imparted a deep mistrust of law enforcement with all who were affected.

@JJangoFett

2 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah this is why I hate Red Flag Laws!

@wanderlustwarrior

2 жыл бұрын

Happened to me, too.

@morwaze

2 жыл бұрын

What In the J. Edgar Hoover is going on!?

@melissasaint3283

2 жыл бұрын

That was stupidly done! Meanwhile, though, I went to a terribly overcrowded Jr high school that was so broke that we could not afford a SRO. (Trigger warning) There were multiple violent fights every day. There was a stabbing while I was there. There was gang activity, and there were kids falling through the cracks and staying back repeatedly until they were much bigger than everyone else, and there were kids so angry at life that they would form little mobs that would randomly pick out and then beat strangers horribly before and after school. They would try to get you into the ground as quickly as possible so they could all kick you. It was very dangerous. One of my friends was once beaten so badly by a crowd of kids who didn't even know him that when I saw him days later, his head literally looked like a purple and red potato, with a pair of swollen split lips on it. I didn't even know who he was until his eyes turned to look at me through little swollen slits and he said my name. An ambulance had to take him and his best friend away, with broken ribs, noses, orbital bones and concussions. They had tried hard to fend them off, but there were just so many of them. There were other problems, too. I remember once having to run the mile for gym class.. we were directed to do it around the exterior of our huge, aging building in a very urban setting. The one gym teacher stood in one spot and we only saw him briefly during the process. I tried to do my best time while being sexually harassed by kids who were bunking. It sucked and was more than a little scary. A few years after I matriculated out, there was a rape in a little used stairwell during class time, And after that, things changed, and funding was found for SROs. Other important major changes were made, but I'm sure it is hard to avoid the idea that you need a police presence after a child with a bathroom pass is lured into an isolated stairwell and violently sexually assaulted. Does a school like that demonstrate that a whole community is actually in crisis and needs help? Absolutely. ABSOLUTELY. It was a dying city and most of the well paying blue collar jobs were rapidly going away. There was a lack of good mental health services there at the time, too. But does that mean that, while it's happening, you don't try to protect the kids who are trying to learn from being threatened, harassed, chased, beaten or groped?

@HT-pl8du

2 жыл бұрын

My hs has SROs and some students report having terrible experiences with them, but when the people in charge were debating whether or not to get rid of SROs they kept them citing numbers that those negative interactions were very rare and the majority of the time, SROs greatly helped people. Idk where they got those numbers bc as a student and hearing word of mouth, no one liked them and it was a majority white school. Seriously one black kid was so tired of being harassed he literally made a KZread video to talk about it and

The thought of a child being arrested at school for being disruptive is absurd and horrifying

“Not your business? Oh no my good bitch, that is very much your business!” Best quote every “oh no my good bitch” should be on tshirts

My 6th grade daughter with special needs reported bullying and the SRO ordered a 5150 hold and an ambulance FOR MY DAUGHTER. I was present the whole time. My daughter was not having any kind of psychotic episode. The SRO forced her in the ambulance. The ambulance drivers and intake nurse at the hospital were appalled; they did not admit my daughter to the hospital and couldn’t figure out why the SRO would do such a thing. The ambulance bill cost me just over $4,500.00. The same SRO attempted to conduct an illegal interrogation of my daughter two weeks later. Fortunately I was present. The SRO had my daughter removed from class, held in a room, came in and read her Miranda rights. She wouldn’t tell us why. I ordered my daughter not to say a word. The SROs (two of them) told my daughter if she wanted to know why she was there she would have to waive her rights and agree to speak to them. I told her not to say a word, asked if she was being detained, and left. They never followed up. No idea what that was about. I reported the incident to their sergeant. That stuff happened within the last six months. In a suburban school in California. By the way the sergeant I spoke to told me he never heard of the SRO triad…even though it’s advertised on their website. They’re a nightmare.

@lucyduarte9990

2 жыл бұрын

Holy fuck

@lynnc1382

2 жыл бұрын

@@lucyduarte9990 Holy fuck indeed. We live in Temecula, CA by the way. Part of Riverside County Sherrif’s Office if anyone out there has any power over this and gives a shit. Lawyers welcome.

@JH-jl5me

2 жыл бұрын

Can't you change school? How does that work in the US?

@closer02001

2 жыл бұрын

@@lynnc1382 Holy crap! You're better than me because I'm not sure if I would've been able to hold it together. Good for you for being there for your daughter. I hope she stays safe, you are able to help her see a positive path for her future and of course, that you are able to extract some measure of justice out of those crazy SRO's hide. You probably won't be able to get anywhere with the police but maybe if you make a bunch of noise at the school board meetings?

@lynnc1382

2 жыл бұрын

@@JH-jl5me I changed her school after the 5150 incident. The SROs have access to the whole district; the illegal interrogation was conducted two weeks later at her new school. The police are county so it’s tough to escape them.

On behalf of all my friends with disabilities, THANK YOU SO, SO MUCH for highlighting the arrest rate for disabled students, especially those with autism and related disorders. They've got it rough enough surviving the social environment of school without being arrested for silly things like Adrian was, or even worse, for things that happen when they become overwhelmed and are prevented from using the coping skills that help them calm down. I've known people on the spectrum my entire life, and I've heard some baaaaad stories.

@peachybuttercrunch4409

2 жыл бұрын

I feel such strong agreement. I have people on spectrum in my family.

@JadeDelphi

2 жыл бұрын

That's why mainstreaming is a super bad idea.

@lindabirgittebjerke5761

2 жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

@Queldonus

2 жыл бұрын

I had multiple teachers with no understanding of ADHD treat me as if I was trying to get some advantage, or just making it all up. Had my mother not fought to educate my teachers so hard, I'd have never had any success with those teachers. I cannot imagine how much worse my childhood could have been if someone that shouldn't have been teaching in the first place decided it was easier to have me arrested than learn how to help me.

@Khono

Жыл бұрын

I am a high functioning autistic man who was bullied by students and targeted by school administration. The worst was the "zero tolerance" nonsense that pretends kids making childish mistakes equates to criminals committing violent crimes. I'm so thankful there were no cops at the schools I attended. Thank you to everyone who is working towards better futures for people like me in school.

My high school had an SRO, and the only thing I ever remember him doing is tackling a black kid and kneeling on them for a couple minutes because they raised their voice at a white kid. That man made me afraid of him, and I didn't know anyone who ever said they felt safer with him in the room.

Thank you John for bringing this to light.

I would have given anything to go to a school that had a therapist/counselor/psychologist on staff. Instead we got a cop that would stand by the entrance a couple times a week. And this was in the early 2000s. Nothing's changed.

@TheGayestAspen

2 жыл бұрын

My school had these. But they didnt do anything. Neither did the cop. I guess im lucky that we just got cops and counselors that never do anything

@nicolebogda1482

2 жыл бұрын

Our officers were great. Counselor’s? Dangerous!!!! They wanted me to apologize to a dumb girl that broke into my locker & stole items out of bitter jealousy

@EndeavorsDnB

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@kristaberta7922

2 жыл бұрын

I just graduated last May. We had a school nurse that worked at all three schools in the district, a counselor who's only job was to tell us which colleges we could go to, and three difference officers who were there ever day of the week.

@panzerwolf494

2 жыл бұрын

We had one back in the early 90's in high school. Dude did nothing but make people nervous and kept taking the "trouble maker" kids away when they did shit. They never changed, just back the next week to do something again.

When I was in high school in Alabama. A football player was suspected of having “something” in his truck. So the on campus police got a drug dog to say there was something! And the busted the kids windows truck, tore up the the floor, ripped out the console and basically destroyed this dude truck. To find nothing. He had nothing, there was no reason for them to do it!! And they still ended up arresting him! And he did nothing wrong!

@lilpenguin092

2 жыл бұрын

must've had a pigment problem

@pensacola321

2 жыл бұрын

Alaphuckkenbama

@aluisious

2 жыл бұрын

@@lilpenguin092 should have left his melanin in the truck

@JTwelks32

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like they found something. The story you told is fictional

@davidbjacobs3598

2 жыл бұрын

Do school police not need a warrant, like they would in any other situation?? How is this legal?

Another thing is that additional alpha male in school who has the "authority " to follow busy teachers to our cars or around dark corners in the halls. I've had at least three SROs that tried to inject themselves into my personal life.

I went to a really diverse public high school. White kids were actually the minority. And at lunches they had SRO officers stand at the gate to the lunch room to stop kids from leaving (ig so students wouldn’t just leave school for the day). And one time I went to leave because I had somewhere to be. And the SRO literally just let me walk past him (I’m half hispanic and I look pretty much white). Not 5 seconds later a black student tried to walk through the gate and he was stopped and the SRO asked for his pass. I was shocked. And this was at a very diverse school, I can’t even imagine what SRO officers are like at a school with hardly any students of color I remember being 5 years old and hearing about a cop getting arrested and being blown away because I thought cops couldn’t do bad things. How I wish I’d been right

"Future tax payers" wow, that's the most honest answer a Republican has ever said.

@jimijames63

2 жыл бұрын

Except they'll do their damndest to avoid paying their share.

@jimmyboy601

2 жыл бұрын

Republicans want small government so they don’t want to raise taxes. Dems are the ones who want to raise taxes because they want bigger government which COST MONEY AND they want to give money away so people vote for them and (they claim “cuz we’re compassionate.” Do you know anything about politics? LOL 😂

@kalebgriffin7406

2 жыл бұрын

Not if they become a billionaire

@briansammond7801

2 жыл бұрын

What's most scary about it is that the guy who said it was a Dad to children in the school and his wife worked at the school.

@r.o.1330

2 жыл бұрын

@@jimijames63 ......like tump?

I’m glad he mentions kids mental health. It’s an issue often ignored.

@jessicaleethomas92

2 жыл бұрын

An issue ignored until that kid shoots up his school, after which we blame all people with mental health issues then continue doing absolutely nothing to solve either issue.

@mariegarside8830

2 жыл бұрын

Cutting mental health funding in order to fund more cops in schools. (Shaking head)

@ghostreyn

2 жыл бұрын

it is absolutely ignored, it is more likely for a school to have a cop then a nurse and mental health professional.

@AnimatronicBadgerlord

2 жыл бұрын

This is true. I can't even imagine the mental damage being done to children around the country. Even more morbid, the students at the schools where the shootings happened are going to need to go through some serious therapy that I fear most cannot afford.

@mikek9297

2 жыл бұрын

Mental health is an issue everywhere. Only in america children are gunned down at schools in mass numbers. The problem is guns, stop deflecting.

Teacher was showing this to us as our SRO was checking in LOL

Great point at the end of the video John! Very well said.