Student-Led Walkout In HoCo Shows Support For SRO Removal

Columbia MD

28 May, 2021

6:59 PM

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HOWARD COUNTY, MD — A walkout supporting the removal of school resource officers in the Howard County Public School System held Thursday at Wilde Lake High School in Columbia drew a crowd of student supporters. Organized by the Wilde Lake High School Students for Social Justice group, the group said resource officers have a "disproportionately negative impact on Black and brown students." Instead of SROs, the group would like to see the school system implement restorative practices. Read more at the Baltimore Sun.