after conducting a routine safety check on Austin Lyle, a 17-year-old student, while students were nearby attending an assembly. Lyle, who had been expelled from the Cherry Creek School District, was subject to a safety plan that required him to be searched.
James Murdock, dean of students at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Early College was one of many that were strongly opposed saying that he never witnessed racism in their actions. Several principals and deans pleaded with the board to keep their programs or at least adopt a slower approach to phasing them out. News reports noted that most of the officers actually serving in Denver schools were Black or Hispanic and grew up in the communities they served.
Indeed, the District’s poor judgment doesn’t end there. More than 800 students who could be a danger to themselves or others have gone through threat assessments this school year alone.that the principal of McAuliffe International School, Denver’s largest middle school, must also perform daily pat downs on a student charged with, among other things, attempted first-degree murder and illegal discharge of a firearm. Staff at the school is not trained on how to perform these safety checks.
chrisparente As long as they do it smartly.
I’m all for voting out the Board Member who posted this piece of advice and the board members who said nothing. Which was all of them.