Can these solve all of our educational woes? (Spoiler: the answer is "no")
Maplewood High School has seen 134 arrests since school started
August 5, 2014.
Of those arrests, 50 including handcuffing juveniles and taking them away in a squad car, while 70 others included a juvenile citation.
“Juvenile citations are often handled much differently than a standard arrest. [Metro police spokesman] Don Aaron will back this up. They very often end up being resolved outside of the court system, without kids being taking to the Juvenile Justice Center in handcuffs,” explained Metro Schools spokesman Joe Bass. “Of the 134 ‘arrests’ at Maplewood, more than half are juvenile citations.”
Well, it's only a little more than half.
School officials; however, said they want to make it clear that not every arrest that has occurred on the school’s campus involved a student.
In some instances, some of the arrests were parents or other adults who just happened to be stopped on the school’s property located on Walton Lane. [...]
So far during the 2014-2015 school year, McGavock High School has had a total of 136 arrests, while Stratford High School has had 51 and Overton High School has had 38.
There isn't much more information to be handed out, except this from
Tennessee's 2012 "Report Card" off of their Department of Education website:
Discipline in school is an issue for any educator. Using law enforcement as the
go to solution is only a bad idea.