Presently there are three courses of Criminal Justice taught at Bartlett High School:
Criminal Justice One
Criminal Justice Two
Criminal Justice Two - Dual Credit (3rd year class).
Criminal Justice One classes will be taught by Mr. Rovery at Bartlett High School and at the Academy. These classes must be completed successfully in order to proceed to Criminal Justice Two - Dual Credit.
Criminal Justice Two will be taught by Mr. Riding at Bartlett High School, and this class must be passed to continue on to Criminal Justice 2 - Dual Credit.
Criminal Justice Two - Dual Credit classes can give three hours college credit to any student who scores a 70 or higher on the College Challenge Test given by the Tennessee Department of Education at the end of the year. It is a one hundred question multiple question test Given at the end of the school year. Last year's test gave "banked" 3 ours of college credit to sixteen students who passed the Challenge Test in May. On test was given last year due to Covid19, but the previous year eleven students earned college credit in this course, and fourteen the year before.
My present class schedule as a part-time teacher is as follows:
1st period – Criminal Justice Two - Dual Credit – 7:00 -7:50
2nd period - Criminal Justice Two - Dual Credit – 7:55 – 8:42
3rd period – Criminal Justice Two - Dual Credit – 8:47– 9:34
4th period - Planning Period
Criminal Justice Activities
Youth Court Volunteers
It’s Recruitment Season for the Youth Court Program
We need students to be a lawyer prosecuting criminals and defending juvenile criminals at a real Juvenile Court trial.
We need students to sit on a real Juvenile Court jury and decide the punishment for a juvenile criminal.
These students will be trained by and work with real lawyers in the Juvenile justice System.
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- Members will serve in the roles of prosecutors, defenders, bailiffs, jury forepersons and jurors.
- Members are mentored by practicing licensed attorneys as they prepare their own opening statements, closing arguments, issue subpoenas and prepare victims and witnesses for scheduled hearings.
- The program is a FANTASTIC opportunity for ALL students with a minimum of a 2.0 GPA that pass a criminal background check. It is especially IDEAL for students who have an expressed interest in working within the legal community.
- Additionally, our member’s health and safety are paramount to us, so we've implemented some important procedures that will help keep our community feeling as good as possible during this uncertain and unprecedented time. The Youth Court Program will continue to conduct hearings virtually on the Zoom conferencing platform. Tentatively, these hearings will remain on 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month, beginning at 5:00pm and ending around 7:00pm.
The recruiting season is currently active and will run through September 30, 2021
Applications can be picked up from
Mr. Schwill in A209,
Mr. Riding in A201, and
Mr. Rovery at the Academy.
They can also be picked up at the front office.
Working in conjunction with Shelby County Juvenile Court, we have established a very active Youth Court Program. Youth Court is a juvenile delinquency diversion and peer-justice program. It is devoted to restorative justice principles—that is, we work to repair the damaged relationship between youthful offenders, the victims, families and our community. Youth Court is dedicated to rehabilitating first-time nonviolent offenders, holding young people accountable for their behavior, and educating youth about citizenship, the legal system, and constructive conflict resolution.
The goal of Youth Court is to use positive peer pressure to ensure that young people who have committed non-violent first time minor offenses will repair the damage they caused to their victims and to our community and receive the help they need to avoid further confrontation with the justice system. Presently the program has over a 95% success rate statewide .
Youth Court will not impose custodial (jail) sentences or fines. Sentences will focus on restorative and rehabilitative measures, including: Written or oral apologies, restitution (paying the victim the value of the damage caused to the victim), essays, counseling, drug and alcohol assessments, addiction treatment, curfew, and community service.
It should be noted that several of these students have used these contacts to secure summer jobs, and some even employment for several years. This public service also counts as community service hours and looks great on a college resume.
Mock Trial Competition
We have also started a Mock Team that will be in competition with other teams from area high schools in the coming school year. You can contact me if you are interested in joining the club.
I can be contacted at [email protected]
