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What's happening today at Daymar is we're having a criminal justice competition
which is called the Mid Cumberland Criminal Justice Competition.
This is where students from all over Montgomery County and surrounding counties are coming to compete
in real life scenarios that law enforcement may have to face out in the field.
The schools that are participating from CMCSS are Kenwood High School,
West Creek High School, and Northwest High School.
The scenarios that students are facing today are
they're going to be doing fingerprinting, lifting prints, dusting
they are going to be doing crime scene investigations, they're doing a high risk felony traffic stop
a sobriety check, a D.U.I. traffic stop
they are also going to be doing an appellate court, shooting simulator
and a mock interview where students are going to be interviewed for a potential job.
The goal of this event is just basically to
these are things that the kids learn, like the events that we have,
they learn these in the classroom, so taking what they learn in the classroom
and actually applying it to real life situations.
So, they're able to kind of show the skills that they've learned in class
and also expose them to what they may face as a law enforcement officer,
or as an attorney, or just in the field of criminal justice in general.
They're kind of getting that exposure, and it's just a little fun competition too against
other schools in the district, as well as surrounding counties.
This activity, I think, is important to students because it does
that real world application, I mean we're constantly trying to
what they're learning in the classroom, how is this going to relate to
real life or what they're going to be exposed to
after high school, and this is a perfect example, they're getting that
experience now, and gaining that knowledge now, and able to use it now.
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