The board also discussed a prominent safety component on middle and high school campuses - the School Resource Officer. SROs are certified law enforcers who are contracted out to the school to provide security and to form a good relationship between police and teens. The only recommendation for a change to the SROs that was discussed at Tuesday's meeting was to have SROs and the school district meet regularly about criminal issues in the schools. School Board members also used the safety meeting to briefly discuss whether the district has a plan for after the first of the year, when some say computers will crash causing power and water outages, food shortages and other technical glitches. School officials say they are talking with county leaders to see what preparation can be done before the clock strikes midnight Jan. 1, 2000.
Teachers make or break the quality of schools.
The answer seems easy. It's obviously true. If you don't have good teachers, you don't have good schools. So let's get tough on teacher quality. That's where the great debate on improving public schools seems to be stuck for the moment.