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Eye on the world: Providing safety in schools and better connections in the community
In “What happens when cops become hallway monitors” The Christian Science Monitor reports that police officers assigned to public schools (known as School Resource Officers) are more than just an armed presence. While their primary purpose is, of course, to provide security for students and teachers, the opportunity they have to mentor students can play an important role in shaping the way kids view, treat, and trust police officers. The Monitor writes, “At a time when police-community relations are fraught, SROs are increasingly being promoted as promising vehicles for community policing.” Ensuring school safety, while bridging the gap between the police and the communities they serve, is a primary objective as the new school year begins.
Ideas on this subject:
From the Bible:
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
From the writings of Mary Baker Eddy:
Harmony is produced by its Principle, is controlled by it and abides with it. Divine Principle is the Life of man. Man’s happiness is not, therefore, at the disposal of physical sense. Truth is not contaminated by error. Harmony in man is as beautiful as in music, and discord is unnatural, unreal.
— Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 304
The great fact remains that evil is not mind. Evil has no power, no intelligence, for God is good, and therefore good is infinite, is All.
— Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 398–399
Related articles from The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel:
In “Dwelling in safety”: “Prayer enables us to turn away from the solid conviction of material sense that we are vulnerable mortals living in a random, violent world, separate from God and the security of His government. Through prayer we can begin to perceive our real, spiritual selfhood and our real relation to God as His offspring.” And “God is also the divine Principle of all being, maintaining law, order, and righteousness throughout its infinite allness. Nothing unlawful can take place in Principle, no evil plots can develop or come to fruition, because all that develops is the rightness of Principle.”
In “Safe in an unsafe world”: “Christian Science illuminates the constancy of divine care. It teaches how and why we can live in the security of God’s jurisdiction. Christian Science is the demonstrable law of God—the law of Truth, of Life, of Love.” And “Wherever we are, God possesses and governs us, in that place, at that moment. Right where you are now, you can feel a divine law of peace and protection operating as a blessing to you and others. Not one of us has ever ventured, can ever venture, beyond His love.”
The articles above and others dealing with this subject can be found on JSH-Online.com or on CSMonitor.com.