Scenario: Every weekday you work at your regular job in the morning and at 2:00 PM you teach an English class at a juvenile correctional facility to youths between the ages 15 and 18. You teach a writing class to just the 17-year-olds at 3:00, then head home to plan your lessons for the next day

Question

Question: What is likely to be your profession between detention worker, high school teacher, school resource officer, and probation officer?

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

You would likely be a high school teacher.
• It is common for offenders in a correctional facility to work towards their high school diploma or GED while incarcerated.
• A detention worker is unlikely to have a different full time job and also not likely to teach English classes at the detention facility.
• Probation officers work with offenders outside the prison walls. It would be more common for a PO to visit a jail than a correctional facility.
• SROs, work for police departments and work at public high schools.