Im about the same age. We got a student resource officer my sophomore year. That was after a football player KOed the Vice principal. BUT he knocked him out because he was punching an honor role student in the face. Over wearing a hat.
The SRO was not there to be a disciplinarian or to ‘police children’ as he called it. In his orientation meeting, he said he was there so ‘if there are no football players to punch out an administrator gone berserk, students could come find him to do it.’
To his credit, he spent his time being an actual resource for students, like domestic issues at home, etc. He helped one of my friends on her path to becoming an emancipated minor, and helped another one get into a rehab program and vouched for him in court and kept him out of ‘the system’
Im about the same age. We got a student resource officer my sophomore year. That was after a football player KOed the Vice principal. BUT he knocked him out because he was punching an honor role student in the face. Over wearing a hat.
The SRO was not there to be a disciplinarian or to ‘police children’ as he called it. In his orientation meeting, he said he was there so ‘if there are no football players to punch out an administrator gone berserk, students could come find him to do it.’
To his credit, he spent his time being an actual resource for students, like domestic issues at home, etc. He helped one of my friends on her path to becoming an emancipated minor, and helped another one get into a rehab program and vouched for him in court and kept him out of ‘the system’