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Creating a Safe Learning Environment

Amy Buffenbarger of NEA's Priority Schools Campaign, on behalf of Belmont High School, Dayton, Ohio

Story posted June 13, 2011

RESULTS

• In the 2010 - 2011 school year, 84% of freshman moved on to their sophomore year (compared to 30% in 2008 - 2009 and 63% in 2009 - 2010)

Also, compared to the 2008-2009 school year:

• The number of fights decreased from 143 to 17, an 89 percent reduction
• Assaults decreased from 83 to 10, an 88 percent reduction
• Arrests decreased from 58 to 1, a 99 percent reduction

Belmont was a school run by the students. They skipped class and roamed the halls in the hundreds. Fights were a near daily occurrence. Police cars regularly parked outside. An emergency alarm sat next to the cash registers in the cafeteria to sound when students tried to steal the lunch money. Teachers feared for their safety and stayed in classrooms behind locked doors, desperately trying to teach while ignoring the distractions outside.

Read the complete article and reflect. 

Go to http://www.learningfirst.org/creating-safe-learning-environment