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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A student brought a loaded gun to a pgps the other day. Staff member found it, alerted sro, who confiscated it and called police. Seems the presence of sro might have helped police know the situation they were going to encounter. The SRO may also have had knowledge of kid/situation which seems like it would be useful. [/quote]

These stories touting SROs always lack enough detail to tell whether they were actually necessary to the good outcome. A staff member found the gun - would they not have been able to safely confiscate it without the SRO? Would they not have been able to call police and tell them the situation? If the story was something like "a kid was bragging about their loaded gun so a teacher called police while the SRO engaged the student safely, using their police training" then I would get it, but that's not what it sounds like happened?[/quote]

Teacher here. I have absolutely no training in guns. I wouldn’t know how to HOLD it properly. Frankly, that’s not my job. SROs have training I don’t have. I want them close, so they are only a minute away when I am alerted to a weapon in my classroom. I don’t want to have to call the police who then have to DRIVE to the school to help out.

Signed - a teacher who has had to call for an SRO to remove a weapon before [/quote]

Another teacher here who agrees with you. It seems like people really don't want teachers and school administrators to have support for dealing with theae situations. Ok. So we will call the police more often. [/quote]

People want teachers to have non-cop support for discipline and call cops for crimes.

Currently cops are disciplinarians for thing that are not crimes.[/quote]

Do you have evidence? Published data suggests otherwise. There were only 27 arrests during the 2019-2020 school year, all for felonious actions or ones that cause significant danger to the school environment. Those are crimes and they need to be treated as crimes. I think we can agree that isn’t a lot for the largest school system on Maryland, and it also suggests they are not arresting for things that are merely disciplinary.

I am a teacher AND a parent. I want administrative support for discipline and SRO support for crimes. [/quote]

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