Student-Led Walkout In HoCo Shows Support For SRO Removal

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.