and the Sikhs in US don't ?
dont put your sour words in my mouth! Even your own papers didnt report it and you are demanding sympathy? Get off your high horse!
What's with this Muslim card ? You are now more Sudanese than the actual Sudanese too ? Theka leke rakhha hai ?
I never said that! My words are on the thread and crisp clear...read them again!
2 days under custody only released after the people demanded the police to use the brain!
You wont understand what a brown person says so lets here it from the white:
Zero-tolerance policies may have been another factor in Irving case, experts say
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Staff Writer
Published: 16 September 2015 10:46 PM
Updated: 17 September 2015 07:40 AM
Along with concerns about anti-Muslim sentiments, some say
the arrest and suspension of a 14-year-old Irving boy who took his invention to school amounts to zero-tolerance policies run amok.
Since 1995, Texas — as well as much of the country — has taken a tough-on-crime, zero-tolerance approach to discipline. So how much discretion do local school officials have in dealing with such a situation?
Plenty, say those who follow juvenile justice issues in Texas.
“
Zero-tolerance has cornered our thinking so much that it prevents us from seeing the reality around us. I call it zero-intelligence,” said Michael Gilbert, a UT-San Antonio
associate professor who researches discipline in schools.
In recent years,
the Legislature has dialed back the volume on zero-tolerance, passing new laws that allow districts to consider individual circumstances. Texas’ tough stance had previously required districts to automatically expel students for certain offenses, such as bringing items deemed weapons to school.
Just this year, lawmakers gave districts leeway to consider intent for situations involving weapons before expelling a student.
However, when it comes to defining what exactly is a possible weapon — or look-alike — determining when police should be called and suspending a student, that’s a local decision driven by district policies and training, experts say.
Though ninth-grader Ahmed Mohamed claimed to have a clock, not a weapon, a teacher at Irving ISD alerted authorities Monday about the device and the student was placed in handcuffs.
“
Irving ISD had plenty of room for discretion in how they handled this,” said Terri Burke, executive director of the ACLU of Texas.
On Wednesday, authorities said Ahmed would not face any charges.
Irving school officials aren’t saying much regarding why they reacted they way they did, citing federal privacy laws.
District spokeswoman Lesley Weaver spoke briefly at a news conference on Wednesday saying that information
“made public to this point has been very unbalanced.”
“We were doing everything with
an abundance of caution to protect all of our students in Irving,” she said.
The school district’s code of conduct prohibits students from taking a “look-alike” weapon to school, which can lead to suspension, placement in alternative educational settings or expulsion.
But determining exactly what that constitutes is subjective.
Teachers often get general guidance on school safety before stepping into the classroom, said Stephanie Jacksis, spokeswoman for the Association of Texas Professional Educators. That training varies district to district and even by campus, she said.
They are often told that if anything suspicious happens,
“they are to immediately contact administration who will likely immediately contact the police department after that unless they have a school marshal on campus who is trained on what to do when a student brings something that is perceived to be a weapon to school.”
In light of school shootings and other deadly events in public venues, Jacksis said an educator is more likely to be overly cautious in reporting something questionable.
“A lot of times teachers would rather be safe than sorry,” Jacksis said. “So sometimes they do report things that may not be as harmful as they believe it could have been. It just comes down to keeping the kids safe, especially with all the things that have happened in recent years.”
But what happens after such an incident is reported can vary greatly.
So more district-level training needs to be done to de-escalate situations before children are dragged away in handcuffs, said Morgan Craven, director of the School-to-Prison Pipeline Project at the juvenile justice advocacy group Texas Appleseed.
Craven hopes
another new law will help with that as it requires districts with at least 30,000 students — which includes Irving — to adopt a policy in
how they train officers who will be working in schools. She and others hope it will
help police and school officials to better handle situations before they get out of hand.
Still,
Ahmed’s case shows much more work needs to be done to curb overreactions, Craven said.
“Zero-tolerance is an ineffective approach to school discipline,” Craven said.
“And our research has shown us for so long that children of color like Ahmed are negatively impacted by school discipline at much higher rates.”
Gilbert, who is also
executive director of the National Association of Community and Restorative Justice, said
school officials have to be concerned about safety but not to the extent that it hurts students. For example,
he’s come across a case where an elementary student was punished for turning in an unloaded gun found on a playground.
“
We end up disciplining kids instead of talking to them about how to make better decisions,” Gilbert said. “
The problem is not the kids. It’s us — adults.”
Zero-tolerance policies may have been another factor in Irving case, experts say | Dallas Morning News
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Muslim student arrested in US after home-built clock mistaken for bomb | Page 8
lovely why didnt you quote the context?
