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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does Churchill have security guards?  My DC is in another high school.  There are security guards at the entrances, in the hallways, or everywhere.  They are big guys who are every friendly but firm.  Very few fight in school.[/quote]

Idk about Churchill specifically but Gabe Albernoz and Elrich decided to take School Resource Officers out of MCPS.  They replaced them with social workers / Community Engagement Officers.

If there is an issue, the Principal would call 911 and they would send a Community Engagement Officer.

I agree that having SROs actually at the schools is a deterrent.  It was a terrible idea for the County government to take SROs out of school.  Combine that with the stress of Covid and will see more issues this year in schools.

Pretty much every social worker I know is not interested in breaking up fights between high school boys.  [/quote]

You don’t know really good social workers then.

I also don’t know 1 good cop who wants to break up fights in a HS, or deal with a teen shop lifting gum, or parking violations, or direct traffic, or a bunch of BS we have cops trained with guns doing.[/quote]

Who else is on call to do these things 24/7?   Are you going to hire a bunch of people to direct traffic when there is an accident at 4am?   What are they going to do for the rest of their shift?

Police have guns because we have a 2nd amendment that gives almost everyone the right to carry a gun.  And for those who don't have the right, they often carry guns anyway.   Like the 14 year old child who killed another young man and shot two others up in Germantown.   There are more guns in America than human beings.  And police are sent to the points of conflict where people, sadly, choose to use those guns.    [/quote]

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