The reckoning unfurling across North America over the power of police has reached a new arena: high schools. In the wake of worldwide rallies protesting police brutality, some trustees are taking steps to remove police from schools. In many ways, they’re following in the footsteps of Canada’s largest school board, the Toronto District School Board, which moved to take officers out of high schools in 2017, ending a decade-long program. But Stirling also says she questions the fundamental premise of putting officers into schools. The is not the first time the presence of police officers in schools has come under scrutiny.

Source: thestar June 23, 2020 00:04 UTC