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A young student chose to do the right thing on May 21, 2024,
Another student had flashed a knife to classmates and the first student chose
to tell the teacher. Instantly the Trust Pays program in schools was put to practice at Lucy Elementary School.
The teacher alerted a behavior specialist and the student with the knife was quickly removed from the classroom. The specialist and an administrator sat down with the student who pulled out the black-handled knife with a four-inch blade and handed it over.
School security officers notified a parent and a report was submitted. The student with the switch-blade received an in-school suspension which continues into the next school year.
Meanwhile, at another grade school across town, Trust Pays uncovered a fifth-grade student with enough marijuana to sell to make quite a bit of money. Two students ended up with 180-day suspensions.
Those two incidents were the final Trust Pays cases during the 2023-24 school year. In total, Trust Pays removed 11 weapons (six loaded guns and five knives) during the school year. The program led to the confiscation of 14 caches of drugs for sale and eight vaping devices filled with THC. One theft also was uncovered.
Trust Pays thanks the many students who used the Trust Pays program to tell trusted adults in schools of dangerous and criminal activities happening in their schools.
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