At Zane North Elementary School, police on June 6 questioned a student who had made a gun noise and held his wooden ukulele "like a gun" during music class. The student told police he "was only kidding." Other cases at Zane involved the kindergarten fight, in which a student said a classmate had hit him, and two students trading insults like "fat" and "short" in the cafeteria.
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Collingswood Police Chief Kevin Carey would not specify Friday whether 22 is an unusually high number of complaints to receive from schools in a month. But the new protocol required police to respond to many incidents they previously would not have investigated, including anything "as minor as a simple name-calling incident that the school would typically handle internally," he said last month.
Saturday, July 09, 2016
Why Are Police Involved?
Kinda think just about anything short of murder involving the behavior of 8-year-olds in school shouldn't have police involvement...