How the South Carolina school incident could have been prevented. Quick tips from a former school principal.
Dr. Tommy Watson, Ed. D., ACC
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How the South Carolina school incident could have been prevented. Quick tips from a former school principal:
1. Make sure students/parents fully understand all behavior protocols.
2. Teachers hold students accountable and pick and choose your battles. Follow behavior protocols for students: write her up, let her sit there if she's not causing a huge disruption, and place her in after school detention/meet with parents, etc. later.
3. Administration has to support teachers with classroom request. It's starts with having relationships with students and using de-escalating tactics to remove students. Secondly, you should always accompany any type of officer called into a school.
4. Officers in schools need to be trained with staff on building relationships and using the least physical methods when dealing with students. Also, require admin to proceed with you on student calls.
5. No, I would not allow this officer back into my building.
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9 年No doubt
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9 年You are the first person I heard deal with the issue from a non-emotional stand point and give real solutions. Because, once you call the police, it's out of the hands of the school. If you interfere with an officer making an arrest, you too, risk going to jail. Everyone lost. Students did not get the education they came for, the teacher was not able to do his job, administrators did not deescalate the situation properly, the policeman was fired and the girl/student was sent through an unnecessary horrific ordeal. Not to mention what her parents and family went through watching the video.
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9 年Thanks for sharing Dr. T
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9 年Great point!
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9 年Tommy, the one thing I did not hear in all of this is when did they contact the parents? In our day. When a student would act up,>>>the teacher is the first line of d- escalation, then to the principles office straight way. The principle calls the parents they all sit down and come to a resolution. It should have never come to this type of treatment of a grown physically fit officer of the law, throwing a young 16 year-old teenage female across the room like she had no value of being a human-being what - so- ever. It seems this is now the procedure. Child acts up, teacher calls the principal, principal calls the police. The child is booked into jail, then the parents are called. Totally non-acceptable.