If we all threw our problems in a pile, and you saw everyone else's problems-- you'd take yours back.
I have no issue at all with police in schools. But they aren't there to enforce discipline. they are there to protect the kids. If these kids were threatening the other kids, then yeah the cop needed to do something. But this should have been handled by the faculty until it became some sort of police issue. That's all I'm saying. And the sheriff pretty much said the same thing.
And on edit, DD, that sheriff said somethng about a law down in SC being part of the issue with the SROs being caught in the middle, like you were sayng. He wasn't specific but he did say that was part of the problem
BKB