At the same time, teachers and administrators have expressed concerns about the new direction. Source: LA Times. Home Bio My Events Contact. The new approach is an about-face. I love this article! I found the story when released to be the biggest joke I had ever heard.
I got a good laugh and moved on. Thanks for showing that I could laugh again at the story. In those days the police would cruise in front of the schools waiting for students to return to school.
I admit to frequent truancy, but what purpose is served by stopping kids from going to school? Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Towards this end, Los Angeles City Councilmember Tony Cardenas introduced a Council motion that would revise daytime curfew laws to make them more culturally responsive to the needs of working class transit dependent students of color.
It calls on the LAPD and School Police to end the practice of issuing citations with fines for truancy when minors are within range of their school sites.
It also requires that the LAPD and School Police collect demographic data on the population of minors cited for truancy infractions. In addition to the City Council motion, the coalition is urging law enforcement and school officials to consider programs that emphasize restorative justice and non-punitive conflict mediation approaches to addressing truancy. It is also recommending that school officials work with the MTA to develop policies that ease the burden on transit dependent youth who are often at the mercy of erratic bus schedules.
By framing truancy as a systemic issue informed by multiple social, economic, and educational factors, the Community Rights Campaign is part of a growing movement that has emerged to challenge long-standing institutionally racist and classist discipline policies that disenfranchise youth of color in the LAUSD.
KPCC reported the story of a single mother with four children who works bagging groceries at an Albertsons store. Deterring students from school and graduation: As part of a comprehensive campaign to reform the daytime curfew policy, through some 2, student surveys conducted by Community Rights Campaign, reviews of thousands of documents and data and literature, and the representation of more than 75 low-income students by Public Counsel attorneys and pro bonos, we found that tickets and police sweeps just made it less likely that students would show up for school.
Their parents could not afford to pay the excessive fines and being treated like criminals, frightened and humiliated students who were just trying to get an education. So it makes no sense. More troubling, studies showed that involving students in the juvenile justice system made it more likely they would never come back to school: a first-time arrest in high school doubled the likelihood that a student would drop-out. When students must appear in court, the likelihood of dropping out nearly quadruples.
While Black youth make up only 9. While low-income students, dependent largely on public transportation, were regularly ticketed. After months of meetings, in a directive to all officers issued in April of , LAPD agreed to stop mass ticketing of students for truancy during the first hour of class and halted its daytime curfew sweeps, except when there was suspected criminal activity by youth in the school area.
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