Welcome to the Beginners' Spanish course especially designed for CMPD School Resource Officers.
"The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department and surrounding jurisdictions supply full-time school resource officers to all high schools and middle schools in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System. The security of our students allows the schools to supply a safe and productive learning environment.
The role of the school resource officer, SRO, is to serve the schools as their community officer and enforce all local, state and federal laws. The SRO also serves as a law related advisory to school administrators, parents and students regarding legal issues.
In addition, some of the expectations of an SRO are to create a liaison with all stakeholders, formulate crime prevention tactics and provide security for school functions such as athletics events. SRO's also make themselves available for parent-teacher meetings and to enhance the problem solving initiatives of their division.
The SRO does not enforce or investigate violations of school policy rules or matters of school disciplinary actions and is not considered to be a member of the school staff or facility.
The SRO program is designed to promote and foster the ongoing partnership between law enforcement, the school system and the community to ensure safer schools, successful students and productive citizens."
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Around 21% of the CMS student population is Hispanic, and while many speak English, there is quite a number who is still linguistically and culturally in a transitional state and may not understand correctly when addressed by teachers, staff and School Resource Officers.
This course will provide you with basic vocabulary, grammar and inherent cultural aspects, which will help you to better serve Hispanic students at CMS.
Your presence at the school will have an enormous impact on the lives of students and their families, who often are coming from Latin American countries where police actions are feared.
Just a friendly Buenos días will break the ice and assure an Hispanic student that you are on his/her side.
Classes will start on August 15th, at 8:30am at the Police Academy, Room C2103. There will be a variety of activities, which will make the long hours go by in a flash! That is my promise to you...
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