July 5, 2018, Findlay (OH) Courier: Findlay may share cost of hiring 6-10 cops for schools http://thecourier.com/local-news/2018/07/05/findlay-may-share-costof-hiring-cops-for-schools/ The City of Findlay and Findlay City Schools may share the cost of hiring six to 10 police officers to station in school buildings, Mayor Lydia Mihalik told City Council this week. … “What Ed (Kurt) and the school board apparently would like to do is a multi-pronged approach,” Mihalik said Tuesday, including up-to-date security systems, such as video surveillance in buildings and buses; in-school mental health clinicians; and hiring six to 10 officers for school buildings. “This is obviously something, from the school district’s perspective, that they’re going to want to seek a levy for,” Mihalik said. In May, Kurt said a levy for security was a possibility. The school district already is in an operating deficit, and spending about $200,000 annually from the general fund on security personnel, he said….
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Childhood Lost
Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.
Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism
http://www.ageofautism.com/media/
(John Dachel, Tech. assist.)
What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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