The Establishment of the ✅Check✅ with Me👨🏿🎓👩🏻🎓👨🏽🎓👨🏻🎓 BOX 🗃 will efficiently address the needs of ALL STUDENTS🥇
On March 19, 2021, The Men Of Color Having Answers Foundation (M.O.C.H.A.) released an Innovative Plan that would add the addition of Student Care Consultants to schools nationwide to address some of our school systems’ greatest safety concerns while also significantly reducing the threat of violence through Open Communication.
If implemented, this paramount proposal would efficiently minimize the potential risk of minor issues that occur on and off campus to be identified, and addressed before the issues have the opportunity to erupt into major disturbances in the classrooms that have the potential to disrupt the educational environment for all students.
Unfortunately, this plan was never acted upon, and our schools have nearly become juvenile war zones for some.
Due to the many generational grievances of minorities that have been traditionally ignored and unaddressed, there has been a tremendous amount of unspoken distrust of school administration by minority students.
Since the integration of schools in the South, many Black American students have struggled in attempting to gain true understanding and compassion from those who hold the enormous responsibilities of educating and preparing our children for their futures.
Unfortunately, the mistrust has led to a lengthy disconnection between many students, educators, school admin, and authorities who are there to help protect the students.
The major distrust of many school districts for the students that attend their schools is reflected by the presence of police officers on the insides of our schools.
Many times, the presence of law enforcement inside our children’s schools would not be necessary if Student Care Consultants were implemented in our schools, and multiple open airways of communication were in place. Therefore police officers would be able to protect the outside grounds from potential incoming threats, and the Student Care Consultants would be able to minimize the threats and acts of violence on the inside of the campus.
What is a Student Care Consultant?
At times, it’s the minor issues happening in our schools that go unaddressed, and therefore these situations are able to develop into much larger problems, causing deep anxieties for both teachers and students alike.
With the majority of schools already being understaffed with MENTAL Health professionals, and also lacking sufficient support; both faculty and staff, are sometimes left feeling as though a unfavorable outcome is inevitable when attempting to resolve their disputes.
I’ve found one primary reason for this educational standoff, was due to the lack of mutual engagement by both the school administration and also the state; in regards to the genuine efforts to remedy the educational disparities for black students attending public schools, in areas of poverty.
This has allowed some of the greatest reoccurring safety issues facing All students in school systems nationwide, to be left unaddressed by school administration.
The benefits of creating a safe and secure school environment by successfully implementing Student Care Consultants would also lighten the load for police resource officers.
It is important to remember, that our Schools guidance counselors were trained to assist by listening, understanding, and peacefully negotiating, in many situations that require communication and not combat.
*Very few incidents of violence have been reported against students, that have been committed by the schools guidance counselors. We must equip our guidance counselors with more effective assistance.
Let’s effectively Address, so there are no Arrest.
An extremely troublesome method of resolution that many school districts in the Southern United States have chosen to resolve all issues of violence and/or threats within their respected schools, is by way of adding the presence of people of authority whose training specializes in the handling and interaction with potential criminals and not our kids.
When relying on police officers to solve the issues facing our youth, these matters require more of “I understand,” and Not, You're Under Arrest.
A simple but Effective Solution from The M.O.C.H.A. Foundation.👇🏾
The establishment of the “Check With Me” boxes has the potential to adequately address the needs of each individual student in a time-efficient manner to safely, civilly, and peacefully neutralize disputes between students, staff, and all those who visit the school’s campus. *(details bottom of page)
We must use our advanced minds to produce effective solutions that do not include our children being forced to walk past a loaded gun and police badge each morning in fear, just before entering their classrooms.
After witnessing the tragic murders of George Floyd and countless other African-American deaths at the hands of various police officers scattered nationwide, there is a justified threat in the minds of Black Students, of being physically abused or even potentially shot by a police officer while at school. I believe that our schools should have an understanding of all social issues within their respective communities, and therefore we should understand how police officers can unintentionally intimate some minority students with their presence alone.
Fortunately, statistics have not verified that the presence of more police officers in our children’s schools has made them any safer than they were, say,10 or 20 years ago. However, those stats and other important focuses, such as education, seem to be secondary and irrelevant in states such as South Carolina. Nevertheless, the appearance of police officers whose overall history in the United States of America has shown to be unfavorable to African Americans is viewed as a symbolization of White Privilege to the majority of those who wish to continue spreading ulterior fear tactics among African-American youth. We acknowledge that many of the public school systems in the South have failed to create effective disciplinary methods of remedy that did not first evolve from slavery.
The installment of CHECK WITH ME Boxes outside of the main entrances of each school building will allow students, faculty, and staff to efficiently address their issues, fears, concerns, and tips for potential real-time issues happening within their respective schools. The Check With Me Solution has the potential of yielding twice the results of using valuable classroom time, desperately attempting to discover and identify students who may be in distress. Without having some sort of an idea of their needs, This process is an extremely difficult and time-consuming project that is made even harder without an idea of the specific issue that students are facing. Open avenues of Communication are so very important to the process of understanding. This is the reason why the installments of the Check With Me Boxes being placed in each individual hallway of the school would allow for students in distress who are experiencing personal issues to discreetly fill out a “Check With Me” form (provided by school administration), and have their grievances instantly heard by the proper people.
How is this possible?
Through the addition of 3-5 paid Counselors (Child’s Specialists) whose daily duties would consist of opening, reading/reviewing, and responding to the urgent mail of students who are potentially in distress. The Student Care Consultants would be responsible for checking the “Check With Me Box,” before school, after each bell rings, and immediately after school. The success of C.W.M. Boxes would greatly reduce the need for open firearms in our children’s schools, while also efficiently addressing Mental Health concerns. Installing Check With Me Boxes in our schools gives our professionals the advantage of having the opportunity to quickly examine the student issues on paper while swiftly preparing a plan of intervention before the student is consulted by staff regarding his/her matter.
The Check With Me Boxes will also allow professionals to individually address student matters while safely defusing conflict by using preventative measures to stop acts of violence before they have had a chance to escalate.
The primary benefit of the Check With Me Box is that it offers school administration much more free time to focus on the education of their students, and therefore, less time has to be devoted to issues from home, classroom disruptions, and teacher anxieties. Many of the disciplinary misconduct of students has been mismanaged in the responses of school administration. For that reason, I believe that the professionals (counselors) should rightfully address the issues of the students.
Please Request The Check With Me Box, at your area school district. This is another Innovative Plan from the Men Of Color Having Answers Foundation (M.O.C.H.A.).
We must learn to try and find early ways of understanding a misunderstood classmate or peacefully working out an issue with an unknown next-desk neighbor. All while we practice corrective behavior that will efficiently serve us better later.
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There is No ownership claim of the drop boxes above, as The Men Of Color Having Answers Foundation (M.O.C.H.A.), would like to work with Developers to build a system that evolves from the average dropbox; in order to create a discreet and effective avenue for ALL students to be able to have access to voice their grievances, while adequately having their personal matters individually addressed by the proper guidance support.