Safer Schools Nashville

“Are you a young person who wants to change the world? Skill up with us on April 26th.

You can register at oursmc.org/youth”

HELP BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOLS! WE WANT TO HEAR YOUR FEEDBACK!

Visit bit.ly/CommunitySchoolsNash to take the short survey

Since August, the Community Schools Coalition has been working with Glencliff, Antioch, Maplewood, and Whites Creek high schools as well as community organizations to transform schools within MNPS to community-led institutions.

In order to build community and gather feedback, please fill out this short survey. This will allow us, members of the Community Schools Coalition, to determine which needs are greatest within our community and how we can establish networks of care inside and outside of schools.

When you complete this survey, you will be entered into a raffle to win a $50 gift card, a $30 Uber Eats gift card, or a $20 Uber Eats gift card.

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The State of Black Nashville Town Hall hosted by will be featuring performances by & Rod McGaha and panelist include , of , Educator and Poet , Excutive Director of Metro Community Oversight Jill Fitcheard, and …and more.

Sign up today at blacknashvilleassembly.org/townhall

We will be speaking at a public information session hosted by the Metro Human Relations Commission today from 4pm-6pm, where we talk about the harms of community policing in our schools. Make sure to tune in!

It will be streamed live on Metro Network and on the MHRC page ( https://www.Facebook.com/NASHMHRC ).

In the meantime, feel free to give statements to the MHRC via email or voicemail!

This should’ve never happened!

We need cops out of our schools for the safety of our schools, students, and community.

Justice for Mona Rodriguez, her family, and the countless victims of police violence.

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Here’s the GoFundMe to help Mona Rodriquez’s family: https://gofund.me/d1ab2df9

An 18-year-old mother is brain dead after she was shot by a school resource officer, family says Mona Rodriguez, 18, is expected to be taken off life support days after a school safety officer in Long Beach, Calif., fired his gun twice and struck her in the back of the head, her family’s attorney told The Washington Post.

34 schools in MNPS are sharing a nurse…..

It’s outrageous that we’re even entertaining the idea of more cops in schools or debating about the efficacy of mask-wearing!

Contact your school board members and council members and demand that they reallocate the funding for SROs and hire more nurses in our public schools! You can find more information in our bio.
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If you’re interested in our work and want to join our movement, feel free to fill out our interest form in our bio!

Make sure to check out our Deep Dish Conversation with where we talk about the school-to-prison pipeline and our work to end it!! Dropping soon!

📣📣 Interested in getting involved with our work?? Please fill out this Team Interest Form, and we will get back to you as soon as possible! You can access the form using this link ( https://bit.ly/3jUSmpA )or in our bio!

“When funds are stolen out from under children in the depths of poverty to fund schools that can expel with impunity.

Where it's better to abandon a child than try helping me.

Where that $7,000 won't be enough to save me from the undertow of the school-to-prison pipeline.

Somehow, we’re supposed to be fine in our lifeboat while we leave a fleet of drowning brown kids behind.

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When I don't know how to rhyme. But I see every Black girl hoping for tomorrow and hoping she gets her time

That maybe I can persuade someone to legislate with love, because of these fears of mine”

Alora Young, a Hillsboro High (Metro Nashville Public Schools) graduate, is the youth poet laureate of the Southern United States, a presidential scholar of the arts, a two-time TEDx speaker, and a recipient of the International Human Rights Day rising advocate award; her memoir "Walking Gentry Home" will be released by Hogarth Books in August 2022.

Youth poet laureate Alora Young's reflection on inequity, tragedy, fear and friendship | Opinion The youth poet laureate of the Southern United States shares her concerns over education, criminal justice, racial inequity and violence.

“Unless the current structures of violence are eliminated from schools in impoverished communities of color—including the presence of armed security guards and police—and unless schools become the places that encourage the joy of learning, these schools will remain the major conduits to prisons.” - Angela Davis