Explaining why the board cancelled the program when most respondents to its own survey supported it, it said most of them identified as “having only white ethno-cultural background”
It recounts how a teenager got enticed by quick money and wound up in serious gang trouble while the parents struggled with the crisis.
“It’s the worst thing that I ever thought could happen, and it’s happening still,” someone else wrote. All the people writing feel the school police liaison officer program could have made a difference.The remarkable thing about them is that they were all presented to Greater Victoria School Board officials in person by advocates for the program on April 10.
Last week, the board reiterated that stance, saying in part: “Police will not be used to provide student services that should be provided by appropriately trained, qualified and regulated professionals such as district leadership, principals, teachers, educational assistants, counsellors, social workers or health care professionals.”
The mayors’ letters were the latest in a series of objections that built over the course of the school year. Front and centre was Victoria Police Chief Del Manak, who repeatedly warned there is an increase in gang activity around schools and the school police liaison officer program is an effective way to deal with it.
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