18. Police Presence and Searches in Schools: We don't need them

Hello!

Welcome back to the Unlearn Something podcast where two teachers have conversations about our classrooms in the hope that this will spark a conversation in yours.

This week we talk about where and when police are currently in some schools and what impact this might have on our young people. Miss S shares some of her experiences of how police work in secondary schools and we lament the criminalisation of some of our young people through this process.

Show Notes
Check out this book  - 'The New Jim Crow: The Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness' Michelle Alexander (2010)

No Police In Schools https://nopoliceinschools.co.uk/resources# Here you can find a range of resources related to the No Police In Schools campaign, and the wider issue of police in schools.

Nearly 1000 police officers operating in UK schools: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/16/police-officers-operating-uk-schools

Over-policed and under-protected: the road to Safer Schools https://www.runnymedetrust.org/publications/over-policed-and-under-protected-the-road-to-safer-schools

School based police officers:
https://www.met.police.uk/foi-ai/metropolitan-police/d/may-2022/school-based-police-officers/

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