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In reply to the discussion: White House may consider funding for police in schools after Newtown [View all]woodsprite
(11,914 posts)Yesterday an 8th grader threw punches at a female teacher in the lunch room at my son's middle school. The police officer got in between them and pinned the kid to the ground until he could be escorted to his office and the parents called. The teacher received cuts to the face from her glasses. Without the resource officer being right there (he's stationed in or near the cafeteria at lunch), she could have been hurt much worse. My son had a 'front row seat' to the encounter and said that no one - even the three other teachers that were there as monitors, were attempting to pull the kid off.
At the local high school when my daughter attended, there had been teachers being on the receiving ends of knife fights, punching fights, etc. All could have been worse if they had not had the police in the building.