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5teerPike t1_iz2k319 wrote

Reply to comment by mr_raymond_chen in Vermont Schools on Fire by LearnerofYoga

There's an established pattern of documented poor behavior of Bennington law enforcement, who are being called to handle misbehaving children.

I think this is somewhat problematic.

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mr_raymond_chen t1_iz2m6rk wrote

It’s an article about a school struggling with kids mental health in the aftermath of Covid. It looks like you’re trying to make this about bad cops and not the kids.

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Intelligent-Hunt7557 t1_iz33pn8 wrote

If you’d like to read the article I linked, it indicts a Bennington culture of “education” which is quick to “back the blue” at the expense of health and welfare for children, in this case firing a teacher for kneeling during the pledge (after a cop ratted her out and raised a stink) and the teacher also complained about the police department’s policy of having the ‘resource officer’ agressively pursue those students who wanted nothing to do with them. So, essentially firing up the school-to-jail pipeline.

That’s a cop problem and also a criminally negligent and malignant school system problem.

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5teerPike t1_iz2oigl wrote

I'm worried about the kids because of the bad cops.

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