Flights & Rights Back to School and School Safety

All students have a right to education, and we are working for more effective approaches to build positive school environments and help students - even if most students are learning remotely this fall. As we examine the role of police in our daily lives, it’s time we also reevaluate the need for police in schools. Black, Indigenous, Pacific Islander, and Latinx students are disproportionately disciplined, suspended, and expelled from school. Students with disabilities are disproportionately excluded. Students who have been suspended are three times more likely to be in contact with the juvenile justice system within a year.
Kendrick Washington (Youth Policy Director at ACLU-WA), Sadé Smith (defense and civil rights attorney), Damian Davis NoOneElse (JR Institutioins and Reentry Project Staff Attorney at Team Child) and Kai Koerber (Student Activist; survivor of the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida) examine the measures that need to be taken to make children succeed and be safer in schools.
Moderated by Executive Director Michele Storms (ACLU-WA).