Anchorage Daily Planet
By Walter E. Williams
The Philadelphia Inquirer's big story Feb. 4 was about how a budget crunch at
the Philadelphia School District had caused the district to lay off 91 school
police officers. Over the years, there's been no discussion of what has happened
to our youth that makes a school police force necessary in the first
place.
The Inquirer's series "Assault on Learning" (March 2011) reported
that in the 2010 school year, "690 teachers were assaulted; in the last five
years, 4,000 were." The newspaper reported that in Philadelphia's 268 schools,
"on an average day 25 students, teachers, or other staff members were beaten,
robbed, sexually assaulted, or victims of other violent crimes. That doesn't
even include thousands more who are extorted, threatened, or bullied in a school
year."
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