Some educational leaders of color are pushing back on the move to get rid of school resource officers. Some say the officers can be the only good relationship students have with police, and others believe they can help struggling teens.
Karen Calloway, principal of Kenwood Academy in Chicago, poses Tuesday, July 28, 2020, for a portrait outside the Hyde Park neighborhood campus. School districts around the U.S. are working to remove police officers from campuses, but the school council for Kenwood Academy, a predominantly Black school near the University of Chicago, recently unanimously voted to keep its officer.
Parrish, a member of the Klamath Tribes, said she supports the movement to combat overpolicing but believes it’s irresponsible to eliminate school resource officers and replace them with counselors and social workers without changing the overall approach to discipline. Some school officials have rejected activists’ demands to cancel police contracts. Chicago’s school board left the decision to local councils mostly comprised of parents.
“Members of our Leadership Team have been extremely vocal at previous Board of Education meetings, asking that an opportunity be created to widely hear the voices of the Black community,” the letter said. “To our knowledge, that has not been done.” Creating a new security plan will involve looking at changes to the discipline policy, Anderson said. And the district’s roughly 1,500 employees are getting implicit bias training to try to prevent students of color from being disciplined more harshly.
School board president Kyla Armstrong-Romero, who also oversees Colorado’s juvenile detention facilities, believes trained school resource officers can help keep children out of the criminal justice system. However, districts also need to hire diverse teachers and train staffers to try to understand students from different backgrounds, she said.
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