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One of the primary responsibilities of the school resource officers is to assist administrators in dealing with disruptive behavior, emergencies and investigations, said Marita Loose, spokeswoman for Frederick County Public Schools. They also serve as positive role models in the school community.
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Being proactive and preventing crimes are among the officers’ goals, Landahl said. They also teach a lesson during the school year about search and seizure in the schools’ government classes and take their “DUI Gator” vehicle to educate students about the dangers of drinking and driving.
The officers “are part of that school’s community,” he said.
Well, since the “war on terrorism” is over and not all have abortins, this might be the next best thing to shooting up some kids ... . Besides it’s all part of the COMMUITY effort to get these littel terrorists under control.
Can you imagine if you were a kid and saw THIS in the hallway?
My 16 year old goes to this county’s high schools. Last year, he saw a kid get zapped by a taser, courtesy of one of these “resource officers”
The toughest security force in our H.S. was the Principal.
We had student hall monitors. We never had the type of mayhem that’s all too common now. But in those days
bad behavior meant expulsion.
I would love to hear their version of Search and Seizure. I bet it says, “Stand aside and let Officer Friendly take care of things”.
The purpose of government schooling from it very inception in the mid to late 1800s and early 1900s was to produce compliant citizens of the fascist state.
Having armed police in the halls is merely a means to desensitize the children to having police supervision, and to train them to be compliant prisoners of the state.