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| Taking Safety Too Far? |
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| This past November, a food fight in a Chicago middle school resulted in the arrest of 25 students between the ages of 11 and 15. Parents, youth advocates, and others rightly questioned the decision to criminalize teenage antics that seemed mild.
Johanna Wald, director of strategic planning for the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School and Lisa Thurau, founder and director of Strategies for Youth, discuss the ill-defined role police play in schools. Is the school system taking safety too far? View the link to read the article. |