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When school discipline becomes criminalization of childhood behavior

The school resource officer arrested my 11-year-old son for having a 'meltdown' in class and now he has a juvenile record for something that should have been handled by a counselor.

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A parent faces how the presence of law enforcement in schools transforms normal developmental struggles into criminal matters.

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