First, a while back I was surprised to hear that schools pay police as school resource officers. Seriously, I thought it a cruel joke. On somber reflection, it sounds right for some situations as a community can determine for themselves. Still it is a sad set of affairs and not one we should come to expect.
I do think in the face of a global pandemic we should afford resources for providing school health resource officers. Yeah - bring back nurses in schools.
If we want to prevent additional suffering and lost of lives in this pandemic, we can do that with school health resource officers in schools. There are a list of important duties this role would hold. For one follow the history of the polio pandemic in America and the part that schools played in reducing the paralysis of polio. And the role they can play in making sure students have other vaccinations. And the thousand other smaller things nurses do like check temps, calling for help when needed, conducting eyesight test, etc.
