Broward County, Fla., school officials portray as a great success their Obama administration-inspired program offering counseling to students who break the law, instead of having them arrested or expelled. They insist that it played no role in February’s school massacre by Nikolas Cruz. They also claim that in fact juvenile recidivism rates are down and school safety is up, thanks to the program.
The evidence tells a far different story.
Broward County juvenile justice division records, federal studies of Broward school district safety and the district's own internal reporting show that years of “intensive" counseling didn’t just fail to reform repeat offender Cruz, who allegedly went on to shoot and kill 17 people at his high school. Records show such policies have failed to curtail other campus violence and its effects now on the rise in district schools — including fighting, weapons use, bullying and related suicides.
Meanwhile, murders, armed robberies and other violent felonies committed by children outside of schools have hit record levels, and some see a connection with what’s happening on school grounds. Since the relaxing of discipline, Broward youths have not only brazenly punched out their teachers, but terrorized Broward neighborhoods with drive-by shootings, gang rapes, home invasions and carjackings.
Broward County now has the highest percentage of “the most serious, violent [and] chronic” juvenile offenders in Florida, according to the county’s chief juvenile probation officer. (Excerpt) Read more at realclearinvestigations.com ...
If Obama’s PROMISE Program were a Republican Program, every American would know about it. Since it’s a Dem disaster, it doesn’t seem the Congress critters or media even know its name, much less its results. School districts who lowered their suspension and arrest numbers (regardless of offense numbers) were granted millions in federal tax dollars.
Spare the rod - spoil the child. I remember in my school years (60's) getting a couple swats on the ass with a big flat board the time I got into a fight on school grounds. Me and my adversary learned the lesson well and actually became friends.
It stung like hell, but left no damage and gave a lasting impression. Many of these punks nowadays need exactly that. Let them sweat it out with anticipation in the hallway, bring them into the vice-Principal's office, make them touch their toes, and wail on their pissy little ass as hard as can be. But no, it's now child cruelty. Pfft.
The adult self-centered socialist millenials need a good old fashioned ass-kicking. A black eye or bloody lip will put their little anarchist notions in a new light. Oh hell, just kick those brain-washed little punks in the balls. Yes, I'm advocating violence. Although not permanent damage. Just enough to wake them up to reality.
Obviously, Broward County's appeasement to the punks doesn't work.
“Broward County, Fla., school officials portray as a great success their Obama administration-inspired program offering counseling to students who break the law, instead of having them arrested or expelled.,”
The claimed by the school that the rate of recidivism is down is an outright lie and is based on the program put in place by Obama and his administration which calls for these crimes to not be reported to the police and instead the students are given counseling. So according to the Liberals if a crime is not reported it never happened.