COLLINGSWOOD, N.J. – A new student discipline policy in Collingswood schools was canceled after it resulted in police investigations into name calling, shoving matches, and other typical student behavior.
Parents contend officials changed the district discipline policy to require nearly all types of offenses to be reported to law enforcement, and didn’t notify parents about the change. The result has been a flood of calls from school officials to police for everything from a third-grader who alleged brownies were “made out of burnt black people” to investigations into a zombie drawing and roughhousing in the lunch line, Philly.com. reports.
Mayor Jim Maley told the news site that Collingswood school officials adopted the new reporting policy – which required administrators to call police for virtually all student discipline – after an incident in May in which they did not thoroughly report student misconduct to the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office.
As a result, Collingswood police investigated a total of 22 school related complaints in the last month of school on a variety of trivial issues, and interviewed students over alleged incidents reported by their classmates without prior permission from their parents, according to the news site. … read more here
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