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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They won't be in uniform, and MCPS/School will have a say in who the CEO for the school is.

https://www.fox5dc.com/video/1032627

About time.    I think MCPS played this one right. They listened to both sides.

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I just don't see the need for these unnecessary expenses. [/quote]

Right, its better to have students die.  Funeral costs are cheaper.[/quote]

SROs have never prevented a death.[/quote]

Yes they have.[/quote]

No. They haven’t.[/quote]
Yes they have.[/quote]
OP here.. there have been a few cases where an SRO intervened. Did that prevent a death?  That can't be determined since that's a reality that never happened.  Causation vs correlation.

However, we can say that there have been an uptick in violence, and that the shooting incident at Macgruder was handled very very poorly by untrained staff.  They did not recognize a bullet wound, and even when they did, it took a while to call the cops and put the school on lockdown.  Having a cop in the school would've cut the response time down by a lot, IMO.  A cop is trained to recognize and assess threats; staff are not and honestly, nor should they. They have enough to do with keeping unruly kidsin check and making sure kids are being educated. I don't want their focus to be on threat assessment. Their focus should be on educating our kids.

Leave the threat assessment and dealing with weapon related incidents to the cops.  That's what they are trained for, and that's what they are paid to deal with.[/quote]

We can say COVID has an uptick in violence in the whole world and self harm in teens. We have no evidence that SROs prevent crime.

Cops are not trained to assess threat they are trained to respond to a crime.. after the fact. Cops do not prevent crime. [/quote]
Yes, mental health issues have gone up due to covid.  We are seeing that play out in our schools.

Cops are more trained to assess risk than a security guard or admin staff.

What is your solution to the uptick in violence in our schools?  More kumbaya and give them a hug?

The time that is supposed to be allotted for "mental health" awareness in schools is a joke. None of the kids take it seriously.  We can have more mental health workers AND CEOs.   It's not either/or. It can be both, and it should be.  IMO, that's a wrap around service.[/quote]

I haven't seen any evidence that there is an uptick. I've seen people hyping this more than normal but it seems the same as every other year.[/quote]

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