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Springfield disputes report saying city arresting too many students at schools

By James Vaznis

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 02, 2012

Springfield Public Schools today defended the use of police in their buildings in the wake of a report by two nonprofits that found that Springfield, Boston, and Worcester arrest too many students for misbehaving in school. Springfield Superintendent Alan Ingram said in a statement that the report was misleading and inaccurate. Ingram said the city’s police only make arrests as a final resort for offenses that rise to a criminal level and not for “innocuous reasons as displaying a bad attitude.”

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