The school around the corner here (Germany) has a “school dog”. Its job is to help teach kids how to approach dogs, how to stay safe in the presence of dogs, read their body language, stay away from dogs that run around alone, always ask the owner first etc., kids can get a “dog petter licence” by succeding in a test.
The dog’s second job is to be in the class rooms once a week for every class and just go from child to child and help them to calm down.
Kids stop throwing things to the ground because the dog might eat it and get sick. Kids tend to be not so loud because they learn that dogs can hear way better than humans and loud noise can make them feel uncomfortable and even hurt them. The kids learn to make sure the dog’s bowl has always fresh water and when the dog decides to go to its resting place to respect that and not to disturb it. Teachers say it has a good influence on the relationship between teachers and school children and between the children and teachers faces light up too when they can pet a dog after a stressful hour in class. It calms nervous kids down and helps concentration in the class room and who wants to fight if the dog could get nervous and not understands what’s going on?
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The idea of a police dog in schools is sending shivers down my spine.
If a government treats every child as a potential criminal first before thinking of protecting it, then something is very, very wrong. On top of police officers not getting a proper training I am very sure the K9-dogs won’t have such a training either.
Our schools are looking more and more like prisons.
Is there any reason they can’t just say “dogs”?
Is a K9 just a tacticool dog?
i first thought they were talking about the Kubernetes-Tool lmao
I’m always going to blame parents.
Too many people have kids before they even understand how to take care of their own mind body and soul.
classroom safety
Something tells me this is not going to be making anyone any safer.
Texas has done this for years, I remember 10+ years ago being in middle school and they send k-9 in to sniff everyones backpacks.
This is awful but not anything new as far as I’m aware. My high school had it and that was just a little under a decade ago. It’s easy to look at these things in the context of the rise of authoritarian strong-man politics and go “holy shit that’s horrible” but it’s important to remember that most of these horrifying new dystopian features of society are actually the result of the decades of fear-mongering about drugs, crime and terror.
Had them in the classroom? Our school would use them to sweep lockers occasionally. But it was when students were not near their lockers.
good. bunch of drugs are in use at many schools - this program should be massively expanded upon.
