Without a doubt, change is needed, but that will mean taking on all of the unions and corporations that profit mightily from an industrial school complex.
As we've seen with other issues, any significant reforms will have to start locally and trickle upwards. For a start, parents need to be vocal, visible and organized and demand that school officials 1) adopt a policy of positive reinforcement in dealing with behavior issues; 2) minimize the presence in the schools of police officers and cease involving them in student discipline; and 3) insist that all behavioral issues be addressed first and foremost with a child's parents, before any other disciplinary tactics are attempted.
If we do not rein in the police state's influence in the schools now, the future to which we are sending our children will be nothing less than brutal.
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