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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Student activism drove much of the anti-SRO movement. Students of color say that they don't feel safe with SROs in the schools. [/quote]
but maybe other kids feel safer with SROs, and certainly, the Principals wanted to keep the SROs.[/quote]

It's a movement. People who like them come from a position of privilege, so their feelings of safety don't trump those students of color who are fearful of SROs and more likely that non-POC to be arrested. SROs are police and the argument is that police don't belong in schools.[/quote]

These are culture wars. If both sides have very little in common over core cultural beliefs such as what does it mean to be safe, then the schools will get more and more segregated, as you'll have more white flight. This is the exact same issue with neighborhoods being completely segregated. It's a horrible thing to see happen in our culture, but it's inevitable when both sides can't find anything in common and see things as black and white. Here white people want to feel safe and do not feel that way, and will do/spend whatever they can to achieve that. Meanwhile black people will continue to believe that law enforcement is not safe for them, and the movements will continue to fight against it.[/quote]

To add, I also thing that as long as this is perceived as unsolvable and both sides stick to their strong beliefs, it will always end up at the whim of politics. I'm guessing what this means is that in low SES areas/schools will get their way and high SES areas will get their way, because that's the easiest thing for local politicians to do, cater to their voters. Again, it's super sad, but it will slowly continue to get culturally worse if nobody wants to meet in the middle and actually work out a solution.[/quote]

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