If you haven't already, take a look at this Op-Ed about NYPD in New York public schools:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/opinion/sunday/take-police-officers-off-the-school-discipline-beat.html?smid=pl-share
(I hadn't heard about Dennis Rivera, the kindergartner who was cuffed in 2008, so here is an article about that incident as well: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/5-year-old-boy-handcuffed-school-hospital-misbehaving-article-1.341677)
I can't even comment on this, it's too much.
plus one. too much.
ReplyDeleteThere's a methodology in sociology called extended case methodology in which the approach is to look at single cases and ask what must be true about the social structures to allow this to happen or even make it likely?
Sad to think about what values and structures make this possible and likely.
Rolling up sleeves - more work to do,
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