Guilford County school board member Deena Hayes is worried that the presence of SROs in middle schools doesn’t allow for “cooler heads” to reconsider incidents. In other words, SROs act first and ask questions later when incidents involving minority students occur.

Hayes is also worried that stereotypes of minorities are perpetuated during workshops on school violence:

Hayes cited recent workshops on gang activity as an example of perpetuating violent stereotypes of minorities. Where, she asks, is the workshop warning school employees to look out for disenfranchised white males prone to violence?

“That’s the one we see manifest fatalities across the nation,” she said, referring to previous and recent school shootings, most of which have been committed by white males.

I guess I can see Hayes’ point. But should a disenfranchised white male show up on a school campus with a gun, every parent in Guilford County would certainly hope the SRO to act first and ask questions later.