Demand a Divestment From Police in Nashville Schools

Metropolitan Nashville City Council

The Nashville City Council is set to approve the next city budget in June. Our message is clear: fund students, not cops. We demand the funding currently appropriated for school resource officers (SROs) be invested into helping students, school education environments, and the overall community instead. Supporting the school-to-system pipeline does not benefit the people. Take a stand for what is right and push for rehabilitative measures that put us first.

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Students must be granted a place to learn in peace, a place free from policies designed to funnel them into the school-to-prison pipeline. For far too long, police have been embedded in Nashville schools, which is unacceptable. Right now, the cops in schools funded by the city are taking much-needed resources from restorative structures, a slap in the face of what the people need and demand.

For decades, students and communities of color have called for the removal of police presence in our schools, yet the Council has failed to fulfill those demands. This year, we have a chance to change that.

We demand that the City Council delivers a budget that reflects the demands of the people. It’s time to move away from policing and instead fund restorative justice policies, mental health services, counselors, social workers, and more. Change the history of community abandonment and take a stand for what is right, abolish cops in schools.