Santa Rosa residents gathered Tuesday for a passionate community meeting on school safety days after a 16-year-old was stabbed to death on campus last week.
“And when I check Snapchat and Instagram, when I see all these things being posted saying ‘oh, we’re on lockdown, there are threats! There’s this there’s that!’ What am I supposed to think?” said a student.
“I want more adult supervision. I specified that we really only have one on-campus supervisor covering a span of 1,600 students,” said Rebecca Almendra, Maratria High School student. “That’s completely unreasonable.” The idea of school resource officers is controversial among students, and parents. A mother spoke to Santa Rosa police officers and said, “you are the ones who keep our kids safe. We don’t call the therapist when there’s a gun on campus, you call the police.”
“They’re crying out for support, mentors. How many are willing to get on campus and be a mentor? Every kid who wants a mentor should have one. If they have great supportive parents that’s great, but if they don’t - start volunteering,” said a community member.“I lost my child,” he said. “My child is not coming back.
A number of people at Tuesday’s meeting say they will take these same demands to the school board meeting Wednesday and try to keep the ball rolling.
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