Handcuff Students Who Disregard the Law, Not Educators
Bob Rinearson brings unique perspectives as a guest columnist for the News Sentinel newspaper in Fort Wayne, Indiana. While Bob’s current position is supervisor of safety and student management in the...
View ArticleFear mongering article? America’s real school-safety problem
Good theory, perhaps, but clueless in understanding School Resource Officers (SROs), school security, and so-called “zero tolerance.” This is my take on America’s real school-safety problem, an article...
View ArticleWhen Did Common Sense End in School Discipline and Safety?
Training students not to open exterior school doors to let someone inside is a best practice. Suspending a student who violated the rule to help a woman with her hands full is not a best practice. A...
View ArticlePolice handcuff Georgia kindergartner for tantrum or safety?
A 6-year-old kindergartner from a Georgia school was handcuffed and removed from school by police after the student allegedly tore items off the walls, threw books and toys, threw a shelf that hit the...
View ArticleCell phones in schools debate continues on Fox & Friends
Are students more or less safe with cell phones in schools? It all depends on who you ask. The battle rages on in New York City as Mayor Bloomberg is holding firm on the ban of cell phones in city...
View ArticleSafety report blasts Bibb County school discipline; Judge blasts security...
The heat has been turned up in southern Georgia, and it has nothing to do with the weather. A firestorm is brewing following a Macon Telegraph newspaper story on a school safety assessment consulting...
View ArticleDraft school safety reports jeopardize integrity of security consultants,...
School security consultants with strong integrity will lose some jobs here and there. But in the long haul, they will retain their integrity and their credibility, and their school district clients...
View ArticleBibb County school crime, discipline data questioned with multiple safety...
The Bibb County (GA) school district remains under fire as two versions of a school safety assessment consultant’s report, along with state safety incident data, bring into question the district’s...
View ArticleBibb County Schools: No conflict in hiring consultant as police chief
The Bibb County School District’s leaders see no conflict in rehiring as its police chief the chief financial officer and senior analyst of a school safety consulting firm that just conducted a safety...
View ArticleBibb County Schools hire police captain fired from last job
The Bibb County school system hired a former small-town police chief who was fired from his last job and has a pending complaint against him with the state agency that oversees police ethics and...
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