What would a school need with this type of car?

[Indigo]

I was out on an errand and I saw a sedan, the capris type commonly used as police cars, with a small faded ---------- county schools crest on the door.
The car was equipped with a devision between front and back seat, like in a police car, a devision between the two back seats and backs on the rear windows.
There was a uninformed woman driving a pre-adolescent, aslo in street clothes, in one of the backseat compartments. They were the only two in the car.

What would a public school need to transport children in a vehicle like this for?

[Tiffearni]

Hmmm...

[Indigo]

Well that's not an answer. Common people I am really perplexed!

[Tiffearni]

The only thing I can think of is maybe it's for one of those schools for trouble teens or something.

Other than that, I have no idea. Seems pretty strange.

[hotlama]

Well, it might be a car to transport naughty kids. Some school districts have really naughty kids who are so naughty that they might need a car like that. We have a naughty kid at my school so the school hired a "bouncer" to escort the kid around.

[Tiffearni]

wow. really? I thought the kids that became the troublesome had to go to a branch off of the school or something that is specifically for troubled/troublesome kids.

[hotlama]

Not all district or states are like that. In the school that I work at, if you accept a kid with an IEP you are basically stuck with that kid until the parent withdrawals them.

[hotlama]

No child left behind suck monkey balls.

[Amy_G_]

Our school district has 12 schools and one of them is for troubled kids that have been kicked out of all the other schools for some reason or another. Each individual school has small classrooms for those kids that just can't get along in a regular classroom, but once they are kicked out of that class, they go to the special school. Often the kids are physically violent. I would imagine a car like that could be used for kids at that school--but also would think that if your kid has been kicked out of regular class, kicked out of the special class, and is now going to the bad kid's school, the parents should have to transport their own kids, shouldn't they? I guess in some areas, there are truant officers that would drive a car like that and "arrest" kids they see out during school hours and not involve the police.

[TuetonicWillow]

I can think of several reasons a school district would have a vehicle like this. I can also tell you that my city has uniformed officers on duty at some downtown high schools and middle schools and they have damn good reason for that. Just this past December an 8th grader shot a woman in a mall shopping lot with a gun he later admitted he carried with him everywhere, including on school grounds and at school events.

14 or 40, if *I* am driving these people around, I'm putting them in a secure vehicle. Student or not, I'm not taking any chances.

[nicurn]

That would also be the appropriate vehicle to transport truant students from whereever they are found back to school grounds.

[JudyJudyJudy]

Many (most?) middle schools and high schools in Georgia have armed resource officers (a type of law enforcement) with vehicles. These aren't just in the "dangerous" schools; they are used as precaution and for various other needs as well. We don't have police officers only in dangerous cities; why should we have resource officers only in dangerous schools?