Get a load of this: The pinnacle of Denver Public Faculties is alarmed at a spate of gun-related incidents amongst college students on district campuses this 12 months — and he needs candidates within the upcoming mayoral race to do one thing about it. The legislature, too. Possibly the state’s lawmakers ought to move some extra gun-control legal guidelines, he says.
Superintendent Alex Marrero made the remarks about weapons in class to 9News after elevating the problem at a DPS college board assembly the opposite evening. How ironic.
Sitting proper there in entrance of him, in fact, had been the seven elected board members who even have the facility and duty to enhance college security in Denver — and who’ve blown it. But, Marrero didn’t a lot as wag a finger at them.
Possibly he let his bosses off the hook as a courtesy, contemplating that they had prolonged his $260,000-a-year contract final 12 months for an additional two years — after he had been on the job solely six months. Or, possibly it was as a result of he hasn’t been on the town lengthy sufficient to know every part the board has been as much as.
It was earlier than Marrero’s arrival that the Denver college board voted in 2020 to kick 18 Denver cops off campuses the place that they had been serving as college useful resource officers. They’d policed the halls but in addition did far more. The officers constructed bonds of belief with among the most at-risk youngsters at among the district’s most problematic faculties. And people bonds prolonged out into the group.
Among the many board’s incoherent excuses for dismissing the Denver police was the declare that too many youngsters of shade had been being fed right into a “school-to-prison pipeline.” Presumably, by cops too wanting to arrest. By no means thoughts that a number of the police themselves had been individuals of shade.
Now, the district has to rely by itself safety guards. No surprise there have been 35 incidents involving weapons on campus thus far this college 12 months.
It’s time for the DPS board to convey again the police. However we received’t maintain our breath ready for Marrero to convey it up.
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