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Related: About this forumDenver school board bans use of handcuffs on elementary school students
Campus safety officers employed by the Denver school district will no longer be allowed to use handcuffs on elementary school students, after the school board unanimously passed a resolution Thursday banning the controversial practice.
Handcuffs can still be used on middle and high school students, though the resolution directs Denver Public Schools to significantly decrease the frequency.
This is a really important experience and step weve taken to be the institution we want to be and be an example, said board member Jennifer Bacon.
A previous version of the resolution that the board considered last month would have allowed the use of handcuffs on fourth- and fifth-grade students who posed a threat of serious bodily injury to self or others. That exception was removed from the final resolution.
Read more: https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2019/06/14/denver-school-board-bans-handcuffs-elementary-students/
marble falls
(62,534 posts)sheshe2
(88,164 posts)The teachings are to "suffer the little children to come unto me" not shackle. JHC!
MyOwnPeace
(17,280 posts)about a country that actually has to pass a resolution to NOT allow a young child to be handcuffed?
I weep for what we've become........