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Students raise concerns about security‑guard staffing; administration says district is focusing on hires with law‑enforcement experience
Summary
Several students urged the board to restore a familiar evening security guard at South High and sought clarity about a staffing change. Superintendent Dr. Bossert said the district has an initiative — in partnership with its contracted firm — to hire guards with prior law‑enforcement experience and said the share of such hires is now over 95%.
Students at South High used the public‑comment period to ask the board to restore a well‑known evening security guard and to seek clarity about changes to the district’s security‑staffing approach.
Why it matters: The comments combined personal appeals about an individual guard’s presence and enforcement of building procedures with a request for transparency around a shift the administration described as a hiring focus that favors former law‑enforcement officers.
Kevin Qua, a South High sophomore, told the board the evening guard “was more than just a regular security guard” and described the…
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