Kristen Cox Roby, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Published
12:14 pm UTC Jun. 16, 2021
Kristen Cox Roby, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Published
12:14 pm UTC Jun. 16, 2021
Note: This is the fifth and final installment of Learning Curve, a year-long series of stories following six families whose children are attending public schools across New York state during the pandemic. Start from the beginning here.
Last fall, six families opened their laptops, opened their homes, and invited us in for an intimate, unflinching look at a school year like no other.
For them as for students and families across the country a year of schooling in a pandemic has been quite the journey.
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Sometimes the mere presence of a weapon can escalate the situation.
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Breaking the schoolyard-to-jail-yard link
Weber has spent time researching the effectiveness of school resource officers. She has been told having an armed officer in a school protects students in the case of a live shooter. Research, however, doesn’t support the conclusion these officers are effectively stopping school shootings, she said.
University of Maryland researchers found, in a nationwide survey of 270 high school and middle school principals from 2003 to 2008, that schools with resource officers reported more serious crimes, more minor crimes and higher rates for student expulsions than schools without that officer presence.
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