Our Turn: SROs and the impact of policing in schools
For the Monitor
Published: 4/19/2021 2:47:02 PM
The article “School Resource Officers: The ‘Gatekeepers’ of Juvenile Court Diversion” (Granite State News Collaborative, posted April 19 at concordmonitor.com) paints an inaccurate, incomplete picture of the role that police officers, called school resource officers (SROs), play in New Hampshire schools.
It ignores data-driven evidence and fails to question the unsustainable propensity to place society’s problems (mental health crises, substance misuse, and education deficits) at the feet of law enforcement, regardless of cost or result. We have put too much responsibility on police officers, trapping us in a false narrative that ultimately paints the role of SROs as partisan. It is not.
High school lacrosse preview: Area teams ready to rip it after lost season
Concord’s Eaton Tarbell (44) falls to the ground while playing against Bedford on Thursday. MELISSA CURRAN / Monitor staff
Concord High longstick Brody McGonigle (37) plays defense during the Tide’s game against Bedford on Thursday. MELISSA CURRAN / Monitor staff
Published: 4/19/2021 9:48:49 AM
While most area high school lacrosse teams open their season on Tuesday, the Concord High boys started last week with a pair of games against Bedford. But with the 2020 season lost to COVID and a shortened 2021 preseason without scrimmages, the Crimson Tide took a different approach to Tuesday’s season opener in Bedford.
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CABARRUS COUNTY â Concord Middle School is home to Alice Graham in more ways than one.
Graham grew up in the Logan Community and graduated from both Concord Middle and Concord High School. She understands the community because she is part of it.
That is why in just her second year at the school she was named Teacher of the Year and is now one of six finalists for the district-wide award.
More than 30 years ago, Graham was a student who would walk to the library in Concord during the summer and on weekends to read. Now she is striving every day to help children succeed as she has.
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