SCHOOLS TO PRISON: 4 Mistakes School Admins Make that Land Students in Jail

9501 South Dorchester Avenue,Chicago IL 60628

24 September, 2022

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Are you at your wit's end over disclipinary matters that escalate from the Principal's Office to the Police Station? Learn the 4 critical mistakes to keep you from landing more of your students in the criminal courts.About this eventIs your frustration over increased arrests and police contact keeping you from running your school smoothly and creating a vibrant, safe school culture? You may be unknowingly committing one of the four critical mistakes that make your school a hotbed of arrests and injury of students by police. THE 4 CRITICAL MISTAKES YOU MAY BE MAKINGYOU'RE LETTING MAMA LAY DOWN THE LAW: Parents in different homes give very different instructions about police encounters. YOU PRACTICE BAPTISM BY FIRE: Arrests on school grounds are chaotic and unexpected, leaving school staff scrambling and open to lawsuit. YOU BELIEVE IN "OFFICER FRIENDLY": Students' distrust of officers is dismissed or ignored by administrators. YOU'RE GIVING AWAY YOUR POWER: Officers take the lead on disciplinary matters at schools, leaving school administrators scratching their heads. HOW YOU KNOW YOU ARE COMMITTING ONE OR MORE OF THE FOUR MISTAKES TO LAND YOUR STUDENTS IN JAIL:YOU'RE LETTING MAMA LAY DOWN THE LAWYou are relying on that inconsistent and incomplete information to inform your students' behavior on and off campus;You are providing no preventative education of your own regarding police encounters.YOU PRACTICE BAPTISM BY FIRE:You wait for tragedy to strike instead of planning in advance;You and your staff are reactive instead of proactive;Once an arrest happens, you and your staff scramble to figure out what to do.YOU BELIEVE IN "OFFICER FRIENDLY":You encourage your students to trust and seek help from officers;You dismiss or downplay the very real distrust your students have for police;You fail to address the disturbing conduct of police in the news. YOU'RE GIVING AWAY YOUR POWER:You let police take the lead in disclipining students;You assist in police interrogations on school grounds, violating students' rights;You and your staff have no control over how much force is used against students on your campus.You are leaving yourself and your staff open to being sued.Any of this sound familiar? If your frustration over police-student interactions or lack of information on how to reduce this contact, you may have committed one of the four critical mistakes that school administrators commit that land kids in jail...and it just may be helping your open the floodgates for more of your students to eventually end up in prison. Who This Workshop Is For:A high school administrator who:runs a school located in a metropolitan area with high crime rates has at least 5 students with cases currently pending in the court system, juvenile or adulthas little to no expertise about the criminal courts;has sole decision-making authority about programming.OUR PROMISE TO YOU, WHAT WE’LL COVER!What we’ll show you are the 4 most critical mistakes to avoid when you’re trying to reduce the number of arrests and negative interactions between students and police, and what tf you’ve already committed 1 or more of the 5 critical mistakes. You’re going to learn the following:YOU'RE LETTING MAMA LAY DOWN THE LAWHow to implement uniform preventative education about police encounters for students to rely upon instead of competing, contradictory advice from family members.YOU PRACTICE BAPTISM BY FIREHow to be proactive instead of reactive before an arrest happens, instead of doing damage control after the fact.YOU BELIEVE IN "OFFICER FRIENDLY":How to reconcile the behavior of police in the media and social media with the presence of police in schools, without vilifying the latter.YOU'RE GIVING AWAY YOUR POWER:How to reduce the likelihood of force being used by police against students while on school grounds WHY I AM SO PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS WORK:After practicing criminal defense law in Chicago for 22 years, I have seen the devastating effects of teenagers not knowing their rights when interacting with police or navigating the criminal justice system. This is further complicated when the adults in their lives, are well-meaning but ill-informed about the law. I am passionate about using my expertise as a litigator who was recently voted Best Lawyer of 2021 by Chicago Reader, a former college and law school professor, and national TV legal commenatator to empower, equip, and educate teens and those who serve them using preventative education. IMPORTANT NOTE: ** If you attend the SCHOOL TO PRISON Workshop, you understand that your photograph may be taken, and you may be videotaped. By submitting your RSVP, and/or attending, you agree to allow JUSTUS JUNKIE, LLC the right to use images of you, or your likeness, or any edited variation thereof, in future promotional materials. ** THE COMPANY JUSTUS JUNKIE, LLC is legal educational company with training programs that offer educational content for schools, corporations and non-profit organizations. The founder, Attorney April Preyar, has been featured on Inside Edition, DailyMail TV, CourtTV, NewsNation, ABC News Chicago, CBS News New York, Fox News Chicago, NBC News Chicago, and TeleSUR International news as a criminal law expert.