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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And of course we don’t need resource officers or police in the schools because that is more dangerous 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
Shame on Montgomery County for continuing to destroy things. Make our kids feel safe in school and stop worrying about discrimination.[/quote]
Our schools do have officers. Wootton has a full time SRO. [/quote]

An SRO or a CEO?  They are somewhat different, and I thought MCPS got rid of the SROs about 5 years ago.  The purpose of a SRO is that they were specially trained to deal with you, and embedded into the school.  The idea was that they would build specific relationships within the school and so would be more likely to know if a specific kid has beef with another kid, something brewing that might turn violent, one kid that is known to be troubled or dealing or whatever.  It's hard with 3000 kids and one SRO, but the idea itself is sound and has in the past been an effective violence disruptor because kids will come to the SRO and anonymously alert them to an problem.  
I personally think the schools need more security officers (probably double what they currently have) and more SROs (maybe 2-4 per school for these monstrously large schools with additional training for the SROs and more opportunity for them to engage positively with the student body, e.g., guest speakers in the health and government classes).

I think the evidence is that SROs are not very effective at stopping the Uvalde type shooters (because those shooters are suicidal and assume they will get taken out), but are decently effective a taking the in-school drug dealing and regular teen violence and pushing it outside the school property.  That may push it to the parking lot of a Target, or a public park or an apartment building or whatever, but at least it allows kids that want to go to school in peace to do so.

I've been skeptical of metal detectors because they don't seem practical with 3000 students coming in every morning and also because the security guards I know that work metal detectors said they are actually kind of hard to operate -- you have to be particularly skilled in figuring out what you're looking at, and I just don't think that it's realistic for MCPS to implement this -- plus people would just prop a door and sneak it in the back, and kids are in and out all day long for DE and portable classrooms, etc.  Maybe I'm wrong on this, but it just doesn't seem like a real solution.  [/quote]
The official title is CEO. However that was just to appease people so that they could say there are no SROs in schools…. They changed the name from SRO to CEO. 
They’ve always been in the schools. 
Rockville City has 2 full time CEOs. One assigned to RM and one to Wootton. [/quote]
CEOs cannot walk the hallways without the Principal's say so, unlike SROs.[/quote]

That’s not true. They can’t walk the halls a discipline students without the principal’s say do. They can’t walk walk the halls and report issues.[/quote]

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