Along with the responsible use of artificial intelligence, combating racism and keeping kids safe, one of the mandatory professional activity days for educators in the coming year must cover the school resource officer program, according to a memo from the provincial government.

The controversial police-in-schools initiative is not offered at every board — Toronto’s police chief has said there are no plans to reinstate it in the city — but the memo, sent out Tuesday by Education Minister Paul Calandra and Deputy Minister Denise Cole, says in those that do, a “summary of the program’s structure and objectives” should be included. School resource officers must be covered in all boards, even if they don’t run the program.

Activities, they wrote, should contain “information about the role

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