As Spokane school discipline rates drop, parents and teachers wonder at what cost? Last Friday, a boy in Debra Horton’s fifth-grade Regal Elementary class calmly stood up and threatened to kill everyone. “I’ve never felt as threatened as I did at that moment,” she said. Horton’s story was among several that teachers and parents shared during a sometimes contentious Spokane Public Schools board meeting this week about changing discipline policies. “We have a second-grade teacher who’s had to evacuate her classroom between 20 to 30 times this year,” said Kevin Cope, a teacher at Grant Elementary and a Spokane Education Association board member. A delegation of teachers, most of whom serve on the ... Continue reading... http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/jun/15/as-spokane-school-discipline-rates-drop-parents-an/
