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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We need smaller schools. We need educational communities not institutions. These schools are the size of small towns and yet this is where they spend most of their time. They need to be seen and known. Most teachers went into teaching to connect with children and yet there are so many kids they are wholly unable to do so. [/quote]

It's easier to put SROs and mental health workers in the existing buildings than to reduce the number of students at schools. [/quote]

Taking the easy way out is what got us in this mess. Pay now or pay later. Americans always choose pay later![/quote]
Then get ready to pay more in taxes. Jawando wants to spend more $$ on programs that don't have a proven track record.

I support SROs.  Cops aren't perfect. We should definitely provide more training to cops on how to handle mental health crisis, but just because there are a few bad apples, I don't believe in throwing out the bunch.  If that's how we are going to treat everything then we would have not government, no human race.

[b]I still haven't heard from anti-SROs whether they would want the cops around if someone was trying to stab their kid[/b].[/quote]

Gotta assume that they don't. They'd rather that the administration calls the cops and in the meantime get the social worker to keep things calm while waiting for the cops to arrive. I don't know why we can't be a reasonable county. Look at what happened at Howard county recently as an example: https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/school-resource-officers-key-to-quick-response-to-fight-and-stabbing-at-annapolis-hs[/quote]

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