Tag: school discipline

AJE Features | Why and When do School Resource Officers Engage in School Discipline? by F. Chris Curran, Benjamin W. Fisher, Samantha Viano and Aaron Kupchik

Following a number of tragic high-profile school shootings last year, several states passed laws that are set to increase the presence of law enforcement in schools (Maryland Safe to Learn Act 2018; Winn 2018).  Many of these officers will be implemented under the school resource officer (SRO) model.  SROs are generally sworn law enforcement who are
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A Reaction to the National Student Walkout by Jonathan McCausland

  In July of 1999, students affected by the Columbine shooting and students from inner-city Denver who faced gun violence not associated with school shootings went to Washington D.C. to lobby for stricter gun laws as a part of Sane Alternatives to the Firearms Epidemic (SAFE). While SAFE managed to get the “gun show loophole”
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Why Do Educators Use Punitive Discipline Tactics Like Corporal Punishment and Suspension?, by Brianna L. Kennedy, Amy S. Murphy, and Adam Jordan

Image by Wesley Fryer In this new political era, we are witnessing an increasingly punitive focus on groups of people perceived to be “un-American” or “lawless,” and these discourses negatively impact our children. In the first two weeks after the election of Donald Trump to the US presidency, the Southern Poverty Law Center documented 867 incidents
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