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Straight From The Senate
The working title is actually: CONCERNING SCHOOL DISCIPLINE, AND, IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, ADDRESSING DISPROPORTIONATE DISCIPLINARY PRACTICES AND CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM AND SUPPORTING STUDENTS AT RISK OF DROPPING OUT OF SCHOOL.
As always, the bill title speaks of noble goals, in this bill the keyword in the title is DISPROPORTIONATE. It is a statistical fact that some minority groups spend more time in detention, serve more days suspended from school, have more official contact with law enforcement and are at a higher risk of dropping out.
This bill makes the assumption that if you don’t punish students for crimes they commit on school grounds and don’t allow law enforcement on the school grounds to contact students for crimes they committed off the school grounds, all of those problems will go away. It also prohibits educators from reporting those crimes to law enforcement.
In all fairness, it is not all crimes. Simple assault on teachers and other students will now be OK at school as long as no bones are broken. Groping, fondling and sexual harassment would be allowed under this bill as long as it stops before becoming rape.
Ironically, other minority groups are the most at risk to be singled out for those actions. The 3rd-degree assault that the shooter in the recent Boulder killings was convicted of while in high school would no longer be a punishable offense.
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