The Connecticut Juvenile Training School has recently discontinued In School Suspension for residents during academic time. ISS was used to help students study more, deal with acting out behaviors during class, or for other offenses. During ISS Youth Service Officers were present to help the teacher maintain order and redirect residents if needed. That meant staff usually worked overtime shifts in order to keep enough YSOs monitoring hallways and classrooms. However KeyStone Cops management discontinued ISS to save the overtime dollars. Now let me continue with the story.
When a resident at CJTS acts out in school, that person now is escorted to their Unit by one staff, and that staff stays with the resident. This means there are not enough YSOs in the school to handle disturbances that occur daily. Now let us say three to four residents from different Units fight in class. Now four YSOs must accompany residents back to their Units. So as you can see this is an issue of safety ...for teachers and staff. If the management at CJTS wanted to save money how come that Unit Leader -that management is always protecting- in building #6 has not moved to bldg. # 5 like all other Units? Because of not adhering to the program and moving that Unit, money is being lost that could be used for keeping ISS open. Well dysfunctional management has done it again. Closing down ISS and increasing safety hazards while the Unit Leader in bldg. # 6 continues to stay put and buck dance like Bill Bogangles Robinson for white management.
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