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Government schools are dangerous places, for lots of reasons, that is why they hire their own police force.
"Like many school police officers, Knuteson says one of the best things about the job is the luxury of time, time to talk to a teen and his coach, to try a softer tack, check in later and see how it worked. Crimes outside of school don't pull him away from campus. His job is to be right there at Hoover.
But as San Diego Unified faces another year of budget cuts, the school board is weighing whether it's a luxury to have school police at all. Running a separate department isn't unusual in large urban school districts like New York and Los Angeles. San Diego Unified has had its own school police since the tumult of the civil rights movement.
Now many school districts are cutting costs. "It's a changing tide," said William Modzeleski, associate assistant deputy secretary in the federal Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. "School districts have to ask, has it been effective? What about cost?"
Cutting the entire department is estimated to save $5.4 million, a small slice of the district's roughly $142 million deficit."
Here is an idea--end the union monopoly, give the kids vouchers and let them choose the school that want to attend. Oh, get rid of the illegal aliens from the community, including the gangs and maybe going to school will be about education not a question of safety.
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"Like many school police officers, Knuteson says one of the best things about the job is the luxury of time, time to talk to a teen and his coach, to try a softer tack, check in later and see how it worked. Crimes outside of school don't pull him away from campus. His job is to be right there at Hoover.
But as San Diego Unified faces another year of budget cuts, the school board is weighing whether it's a luxury to have school police at all. Running a separate department isn't unusual in large urban school districts like New York and Los Angeles. San Diego Unified has had its own school police since the tumult of the civil rights movement.
Now many school districts are cutting costs. "It's a changing tide," said William Modzeleski, associate assistant deputy secretary in the federal Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. "School districts have to ask, has it been effective? What about cost?"
Cutting the entire department is estimated to save $5.4 million, a small slice of the district's roughly $142 million deficit."
Here is an idea--end the union monopoly, give the kids vouchers and let them choose the school that want to attend. Oh, get rid of the illegal aliens from the community, including the gangs and maybe going to school will be about education not a question of safety.
More...