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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But imagine what your school could do with training, hiring more social workers, more teachers for smaller classes and more skills appropriate remediation, more space, more extra curriculars to make school interesting, more edible foods. The Mayor of LA was talking about reducing millions off the Police budget and it Would not make a dent. Seattle is proposing an 11 million dollar increase to the police budget for next year (wel, was before this). Albany (I think) announced cutting its SRO contract - at 1 million dollars. Can you imagine what your school could do with it a share of 1 million, 11 million, 44 million dollars??

And imagine if kids and families experiencing trauma or mental health concerns had community resources they could access (instead of a 7 month wait for kids who have already attempted suicide once to be seen regularly by a mental health service). And imagine if there was not food instability or housing instability or other family stresses. How would kids show up to school then? Again, what could homeless youth services do with 1 million or 11 million dollars.

And then you would actually just get to teach. [/quote]

You are pretty naive if you think reducing on SRO position is going to result in the hiring of additional social workers (MD has none), additional teachers, and renovated buildings. While i’m in favor of it, it’s likely that removing a SRO
Will result on n teachers going to day of training on how to de-escalate a situation. Obviously not sufficient. [/quote]

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