School board votes for police, more behavioral resources at Kickemuit Middle School

Vote comes after teachers say they "need help" with school's behavioral issues

By Ted Hayes
Posted 2/6/19

Following a two-hour closed session Wednesday evening, the Bristol Warren Regional School Committee took three votes to attempt to begin addressing behavioral issues at Kickemuit Middle School. They …

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School board votes for police, more behavioral resources at Kickemuit Middle School

Vote comes after teachers say they "need help" with school's behavioral issues

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Following a two-hour closed session Wednesday evening, the Bristol Warren Regional School Committee took three votes to attempt to begin addressing behavioral issues at Kickemuit Middle School. They include:

  1. To direct Superintedent Mario Andrade to "look into obtaining a police officer" at Kickemuit until further notice, said school committee chairperson Erin Schofield;
  2. To create a subcommittee to talk about behavioral issues at the school and report their findings back to the school committee. The subcommittee will meet in closed session Monday, Feb. 11 and will report their findings to the full school committee in open session on Monday, Feb. 25;
  3. And to direct Dr. Andrade to "secure additional therapeutic services for KMS as soon as possible," Ms. Schofield said.

Following the meeting, Dr. Andrade said his next task will be to find funding for the school committee's directives.

"Whatever is in place, we are going to have to reallocate resources," he said. "That's a priority of KMS and of the community at this point. There might be things that we're looking at funding at the moment that we might have to reallocate" resources from.

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