Edmonton public bringing back school resource officers

Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.The Edmonton Public School Board has decided to bring back school resource officers, but not everyone agrees with the move. Lisa MacGregor has the details.It was suspended in 2020 over concerns about the impact on racialized students.

Dia Dacosta was one of the several people who walked out of the meeting following the vote. She’s a mother and is against SROs being re-instated in schools. “The information that I had available as a candidate is different than the information that I have now,” she said.There were more than 30 speakers at Tuesday’s meeting. The majority of them spoke against the motion, some describing negative experiences with police.“Feeling defeated, I avoided the hallways in which he patrolled, afraid that I might have to face the ridicule,” said Dilrha Grewal, a Masters of Education student. “I’ve been accosted and questioned in front of my peers.

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