To the Editor:
I can’t agree with Tom Meredith’s proposed redirecting of resource officers (aka police officers) as grade school counselors. The presumption that these resource personnel can step out of their police mode and become child psychologists at a moment’s notice ignores the reason those officers were placed in schools to begin with.
That is not who they are. That is not what they trained to be. The last thing that a disruptive child needs is a negative interaction with a police officer ending with…
March 22, 2023
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