It is part of the “Whole School Safety” plan, now available for public comment. The plan would include banning school resource officers at the 39 remaining schools that still employ them.to get schools to drop their officers by offering them “trade-in funds” to instead hire security guards, a “restorative justice coordinator,” or a “climate and cultural coordinator.
“When you understand the program fully, and you understand the framework and the ideology behind it, you will understand that it is not good,” former Indiana teacher Jennifer McWilliams“The entire social-emotional learning framework is based on the critical race theory ideology,” McWilliams said. She also called it “psychological manipulation.”
Chicago also wants to implement restorative justice, which oftentimes prioritizes the perpetrator over the victim. By removing the penal element and shifting to discussions between involved parties, this strategy can leave victims feeling unheard.