The statistics, complied from 2013 to 2018, revealed more than 30,000 children under the age of 10 have been arrested, averaging more than six thousand kids per year. Equally disturbing is students 10-12 years of age topped 266,000.
In the past, students and children were disciplined with consequences such as time out and paddling. As more and more schools replace handling things internally with external police state options like school resource officers, children are ending up with arrest records and their fingerprints stored in databases.
Often referred to as the “school to prison pipeline”, the principal players in the funneling of kids from school to jail are the school resource officers (SROs), and it’s got parents at their wits end.
Fortunately, the number of students arrested year to year are on the decline from 2014 until now. ABC News writes:
While the FBI’s latest crime report released on Monday shows the numbers of children arrested under the age of 10 have continue to gradually declining in the past five years from a high in 2014 of 6,458 to 3,501 in 2018, experts say it is still too many.More
Lock em' up! That'll learn em'.
ReplyDeleteWe should all get locked up. Everyone should be locked up for life. So we can live in a free country.
DeleteStop acting like thugs, stop parents letting their kids get away with this stuff, and stop entitlement mentalities then you'll see things start to get better.
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ReplyDeleteNorthwest Woodsman: Unfortunately, the unvarnished truth is that the violations that would have gotten them paddled or sent to the principal’s office have escalated into more serious crimes such as physical violence against teachers, sexual assaults and drug issues.
ReplyDeleteTherein lies the problem. The solution is not to lower the behavior standards and allow these issues to occur without consequences, but to make the punishment serious and painful enough that the lowest common denominator understands and fears the result.
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ReplyDeleteThere are situations where a kid is out of control, and needs to be secured for their protection and others around them. Previously the staff could handle most of these physical situations. No more due to interference from DC and Annapolis. So the only recourse is the police, and they physically secure those they transport.
Further, not every kid arrested will be tried, or convicted. If the study indicated that X kids were arrested and Y kids eventually were convicted based on the arrest or a subsequent arrest for school activity, and if Y was a high percentage of X, then we might have a supporting fact.
Instead we're told a small number of students were arrested for a wide variety of possible reasons. Beyond that lies supposition.
Kids out of control need reined in. Kids suspected of crimes should be arrested and dealt with. If Travon Martin had been called to account for theft, and dealt with, he might still be alive. He was suspended and his parents permitted him to travel almost 300 miles away unsupervised where he met his demise. We do no favors by looking the other way when bad behavior isn't corrected.