We need school resource officers

DID YOU KNOW? Bonnie Donovan

Our native Black Lives Matter/Therapeutic Justice group has accused the Santa Barbara Unified College District of protecting up 12 racially motivated instances.

Simply as faculty authorities in lots of states have been protecting up the educating of essential race principle. 

Did You Know? should ask: The place else in America is scholar violence occurring, then reported solely to the concerned events?  

DYK learn a information report dated March 11, 2022, in regards to the arrest of 5 black and Hispanic college students ages 11 to fifteen for his or her racist assault on 4 white college students, ages 11 to 12, shouting “Brown Energy” and racial slurs, whereas they punched and kicked their victims with sticks and cable cords, as effectively. The assault occurred on the Coconut Creek Recreation Heart in Broward County, Fla., the place the center faculty college students collect earlier than going to highschool.

One sufferer claimed, “After they jumped me, they had been saying that is like revenge for what occurred … within the 1700s for slavery.” The 5 attackers had been reportedly charged with battery and prejudice, which elevates the costs to felonies.

Throughout final Tuesday’s Santa Barbara Unified board assembly, members mentioned the thought of reassigning the present faculty assets deputy at Dos Pueblos Excessive College and hiring a full-time officer to patrol outdoors the campuses of Dos Pueblos and  San Marcos excessive faculties and Goleta Valley Junior Excessive.

The district eliminated the college useful resource officers from San Marcos Excessive College in response to the San Marcos campus group Cops Off Campus final 12 months as a result of some college students felt they had been focused unfairly. To satisfy their calls for, our suggestion is the officers assigned are individuals of coloration.

A gaggle widespread in America referred to as Cops Off Campus has led the cost to disband faculty useful resource officer applications.

SROs began within the Nineteen Fifties with the aim to enhance interactions between college students and native cops. Bear in mind “West Facet Story’s” Officer Krumpke?

SROs, in essence, function counselors and academics and as a useful resource to folks. Lately with faculty shootings and youngsters with weapons on campus, many felt their presence enhanced security.

Nevertheless, the push to take away SROs got here with the response to George Floyd’s dying and a part of the BLM calls for to defund police.

When DYK contacted Santa Barbara Interim Police Chief Bernard Melekian, he stated, “I’m strongly supportive of faculty useful resource officers. A false narrative that has been allowed to achieve traction that SROs arrest children and feed them into the jail pipeline. That has by no means been the case in Santa Barbara or, for that matter, wherever in California.”

One other regulation enforcement spokesman stated sadly the DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Schooling) program was dismantled a number of years in the past. Nevertheless, the Sheriff’s Workplace had a program till COVID-19 shutdowns.

BLM/Therapeutic Justice additionally introduced an inventory of its calls for through the Santa Barbara Unified assembly.

It’s widespread data that respect is earned and never acquired on demand. Are you able to think about giving your children chores they usually refuse except you pay them?

Largely the BLM calls for, constructed from all three feminine members, contain creating positions and hiring blacks solely and that each one non-blacks should undergo “programming.” They demand that the district present reviews of anti-black violence throughout the campuses, monies for households for entry to any black psychological well being skilled of their selecting and to rent extra black academics and black psychological well being clinicians at every campus. 

Per their accusations, 12 race associated incidents over seven faculties went unreported involving black kids and {that a}” rampant anti blackness throughout the district exists.”

What number of white children, Hispanic and “others” had been concerned in any incident?  Out of 15,000 college students, 66-80% are minorities. Additionally they demand that anti-blackness inside the Latinx communities be addressed.

The main focus is sufferer me, it’s all about me. The assault is so all encompassing, but it screams self-segregation. All this for 143 black college students. What in regards to the 66 Native Individuals or the 563 Asians in our native faculties?

A lot of the deal with training in Santa Barbara County is on essential race principle.

As a substitute of specializing in educating college students, academics are extra involved about not hurting their emotions — and programming them.  Besides after all for white kids, who’re the main focus of the CRT manifesto that each one issues “white” are depraved. That’s together with Implicit Bias Coaching, which is necessary in lots of authorities entities and is the assertion of individuals being responsible of racism with out understanding it — just by the experiences because of the coloration of 1’s pores and skin or bodily attributes. Quick persons are judged in another way than tall individuals, so are blondes and gingers. Bear in mind the Polish jokes? Look now, Poland is humanely standing up and taking in Ukrainian refugees, whereas many are cowering.

Nevertheless, the leaders of the American academics’ unions will not be cowering.  The truth is, they’re wielding a a lot larger affect over the training of our youngsters than most dad and mom notice. Simply comply with the cash. The Nationwide Schooling Affiliation and the American Federation of Academics have been rising their political contributions yearly.

Their contributions grew to $32 million in 2016. Yearly, 94% of it goes, in varied types, to the Democratic Celebration.

In 2021-2022, a non-election 12 months, the mixed contributions of the 2 unions had been $18,837,527. No group donates these quantities of cash with out quid professional quo.

The leaders of academics’ unions are spreading their energy and affect past the mere safety of their members. Typically, this divisive, CRT indoctrination is hidden below different, benign descriptions.

In any case, it has come to DYK’s consideration that CRT is being uncovered, intimately, in a brand new documentary video entitled “Whose Kids, Are They?” Throughout a 30-day window, from March 15 to April 14, viewers can see the expose through ticketed occasions at their church buildings, houses, faculties and different venues. After that, the film can be out there through premium movies on demand. 

“CRT is dividing our youngsters in methods which might be unacceptable,” Dr. Carol Swain, a former tenured professor at Princeton and Vanderbilt universities, says within the documentary. Dr. Swain can also be a co-author of “Black Eye for America: How CRT is Burning Down the Home.” 

She is an academic adviser for the American Cornerstone Institute, based by Dr. Ben Carson.

She added, “They use the ways of CRT to divide Individuals and to create a tradition of envy and blame. They want to upend our free republic, American traditions, and capitalism and to exchange them with socialism, communism and atheism.”

Right here’s a reminder to reply the survey monkey questionnaire concerning the Santa Barbara Police Division, which is obtainable till 11:59 p.m. Tuesday.

Santa Barbara Neighborhood Formation Fee developed a draft framework to create a civilian oversight system for the Santa Barbara Police Division. The CFC wish to share this draft with the Santa Barbara neighborhood to overview and collect suggestions through an internet/paper survey.  

The 17 questions ask for demographics and whether or not the reader agrees submitting complaints concerning police conduct and insurance policies can be extra clear if filed immediately with this new fee, which features a new metropolis division and at a price of greater than $600,000 yearly.  We expect it’s redundant. In any case, the town administrator, the Santa Barbara County Grand Jury and the Santa Barbara Metropolis Council are paid to supervise the town in addition to the police division. Plus, a complete 12 months for this draft framework and a survey? 

How lengthy will their investigations take, plus the place is their experience?

To answer the survey, go to www.surveymonkey.com/r/santabarbaracfc.