Safe Schools for Prince George's County, Maryland

Safe Schools for Prince George's County, Maryland

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We are a coalition of Prince Georgians working to build safe, supportive, and welcoming schools for all children in our Maryland county. To start, we need to remove armed police officers (School Resource Officers, or SROs) from schools, and stop security guards from arresting students.

These people and practices endanger Black children, immigrant children, disabled children, and others. Police are not educators. Police are not counselors. Police do not keep our students safe. The Maryland Office of the Public Defender agrees, writing, “As we see every day in our work, the presence of SROs directly impacts the school to prison ...

We are a coalition of Prince Georgians working to build safe, supportive, and welcoming schools for all children in our Maryland county. To start, we need to remove armed police officers (School Resource Officers, or SROs) from schools, and stop security guards from arresting students.

These people and practices endanger Black children, immigrant children, disabled children, and others. Police are not educators. Police are not counselors. Police do not keep our students safe. The Maryland Office of the Public Defender agrees, writing, “As we see every day in our work, the presence of SROs directly impacts the school to prison pipeline, easily funneling Black students into the criminal legal system.”


Want to learn more? Our Resources page has lots of information about these problems and how to solve them. We show what the research and the law says to the major Myths about school policing. Our Budget for Care shows all the nurses, social workers, and psychologists we could afford with the money we currently spend on SROs. Our Safe Schools USA page introduces the students, parents, educators, and neighbors leading a national movement for police-free schools.

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The PGCPS Board of Education has the power to end the arrests of and violence against Black, disabled, and immigrant students in PGCPS. We need to tell them to vote to keep students safe when they reconvene in the fall.

Find your PGCPS school district here: https://bit.ly/2YT2cOY. Then enter your District number on this page, below. For example, if you're District 9, enter 9. Your Board member's name, email, and photo will appear, along with some information about their position. Your email will also go to Board Chair Juanita Miller, Vice Chair Sonya Williams, and PGCPS CEO Monica Goldson. The email is just a suggestion--add your own stories and details!

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You should personalize this message. Please feel free to share your own experiences with school police, or police more generally. Why do you want police out of schools?

This is also a hopeful message: Removing armed police and forbiding security from arresting students for disciplinary issues  could free up $4 million for the County to spend on PGCPS. How would you spend that money? You can use our Resources page to learn more about what safe schools look like around the country.

Finally, we're in the middle of a historic uprising: The Movement for Black Lives. What does Black Lives Matter mean to you and how can PGCPS show that Black Lives Matter?

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