Posted on 02/21/2018 9:58:50 AM PST by rxsid
Parkland shooter always in trouble, never expelled. Could school system have done more?
By Carol Marbin Miller And Kyra Gurney
February 20, 2018 07:59 PM
At times, Nikolas Cruz’s behavior could be a school administrator’s nightmare: Teachers and other students said he kicked doors, cursed at teachers, fought with and threatened classmates and brought a backpack with bullets to school. He collected a string of discipline for profanity, disobedience, insubordination, and disruption.
In 2014, administrators transferred Cruz to an alternative school for children with emotional and behavioral disabilities — only to change course two years later and return him to a traditional neighborhood school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Cruz was banished from Douglas a year later for other disciplinary violations — then toggled between three other alternative placements, school records obtained by the Miami Herald show.
If the frequent transfers — records show there were six in three years — did little to stanch Cruz’s disruptive behavior, they eventually became the only option left in the school district’s toolbox. Contrary to early reports, Cruz was never expelled from Broward schools. Legally, he couldn’t be.
Under federal law, Nikolas Cruz had a right to a “free and appropriate” education at a public school near him.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
When I was in school, that would have been the least of my worries, it was hearing those dreaded words, "Wait 'til your father gets home."
Surely the Parkland school wanted to discipline Cruz. However, their hands were tied by the district’s asinine policy.
Victims and their families should be outraged at their school’s discipline code and preparing to sue the BC School board and Sheriff’s office for this collaboration. Nikolas Cruz was never busted at school because of the 2013 NAACP collaborative discipline policy:
Broward County’s School Discipline ‘Agreement” signed by the Sheriff, State Atty and local judges. Its purpose is to keep minority juvenile delinquents out of prison by NOT enforcing Florida state laws in schools.
These various behaviors will NOT result in suspension or expulsion or notification to the police. Instead they receive warnings, lectures and possible stern scolding!
The infractions include -All student misbehavior and these non-violent infractions:
Disrupting or Interfering with class
Affray - fighting in a public place
Theft if less than $300
Vandalism damages < $1,000
Disorderly conduct
Trespassing, Loitering or Prowling
Criminal Mischief
Gambling
Harrassment or Threats
Alcohol -all related offenses
Possession of Cannabis
Drug Paraphernalia
Obstructing Justice w/out Violence
“Go ahead kids. Smoke pot, booze it up, fight, THREATEN a teacher and tear the bloody place up! The NAACP & Broward County got your back. Since your family has failed to discipline, a sanctuary law-breaking program shields you at your school.”
And the easily-led kids are blaming the gun. Pitiful.
I wonder why a person would show up with a few bullets in his backpack? How did they know there were bullets in there? Maybe someone who hated him put them in there to get him in trouble. They probably turned him in too.
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2018/02/luis-valdes/heres-why-marjory-stoneman-douglas-high-school-never-reported-nikolas-cruz-to-the-police/"
That article links to this one from 2013:
Fla. School District Trying To Curb School-To-Prison Pipeline
November 5, 20135:22 PM ETIn Florida, one of the nation's largest school districts has overhauled its discipline policies with a single purpose in mind — to reduce the number of children going into the juvenile justice system.
It's a move away from so-called "zero tolerance" policies that require schools to refer even minor misdemeanors to the police. Critics call it a "school to prison pipeline."
Civil rights and education activists say the policy can be a model for the nation.
Under a new program adopted by the Broward County School District, non-violent misdemeanors — even those that involve alcohol, marijuana or drug paraphernalia — will now be handled by the schools instead of the police.
...
But Broward County, the nation's seventh largest school district, began looking seriously at changing its policies two years ago. District superintendent, Robert Runcie had just taken the job and was troubled.
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But Marcia Ellison, a member of the local NAACP, said this agreement goes further than the other programs: "What Broward has done is gone to make sure the administration is truly back in charge of the school. They have changed their school code of conduct which was a tool of funneling these kids. That has not happened across the country."
The NAACP is involved in a number of lawsuits challenging school discipline policies across the country. Ellison said this agreement shows a better way to begin dismantling the school to prison pipeline.
Sounds like District superintendent Robert Runcie (whether still in that position or not) and the NAACP needs to be questioned about this policy change of not reporting students like Cruz to the police.
Obama made it nigh impossible to suspend or expel ANY kid IF he was a minority.
In Iowa, there was the Iowa State Training School in Eldora. Many years ago it was a curious combination: a sort of trade school, internment/labor camp and all-around "last chance" that parents threatened their unruly kids with. I knew an old timer who was sent there back when the boys had to grow some of the food that was consumed there and help shovel coal out of the railcars that reached the school boiler plant on a spur track... and he credited the place with turning his life around.
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Broward County allowed Cruz’s right to an education to supersede the rights of the rest of the 3,000 students and the staff of those schools he attended.
There new NAACP discipline policy gives sanctuary to criminal juvenile delinquents. The schools are be used to house teens that belong incarcerated in juvenile hall or jail.
What do you expect from the democrat rat paper that has such few readers they have to give there paper away. Watch channel 10 on Sundays they have a group on that supposedly represent voters 5 people 4 democrats and 1 Republican...This iswhat goes on in Dade County, Broward County....all diehaed democrat bastions...2 terrible papers Miami Herald printed in spanish and english, and the Ft Lauderdale Sun Sentinel...
Cause he had a screw loose and apparently got off on threatening others?
I think a better question is , “ did they do anything?”
Does not look like it
He was showing the ammo to others and selling knives from his backpack in the school cafeteria.
Signed Copy of the Agreement:
https://www.browardprevention.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Fully-Executed-Collaborative-Agreement.pdf
Why should they “prevent” this? They should actually make him Democrat of the Year with the amount of politicking going on.
Oh, no big deal then. LOL, at least to the school.
That kid, or another nearby, then reported it to the school and they in turn shook their finger at him.
Sounds like political correctness kills again. Here’s an upscale school in a 2/3 Hillary county with zero tolerance for even a photo of a gun but yet they let this punk get away with all the crap he did. Go figure.
“We had reform schools for troubled youth back when I was young.”
I was going to mention that. But the genius government got rid of them just like mental institutions
When I was in grammar school/high school juvenile delinquents were noticeable by the goose eggs on their heads from wood shampoos and black eyes from sap gloves. The men who ran the reform schools were rough WW2 vets. Some of the punks were given the option of the military and many of them took it and got straightened out.
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