The Seattle Public Schools (SPS) Board decided not to reinstate a campus police officer at Garfield High School after a vote on Wednesday evening.

The board meeting discussed the topic for approximately two hours, including a public comment session on the divisive issue. Once the discussion was over, the board voted 5-2 in favor of not allowing police officers to return to Garfield’s campus, located in Seattle’s Central District.

“Don’t bring them,” one parent of a Garfield High student said at the meeting.

“Guns do not belong at schools, plain and simple,” a special education teacher said at the SPS board meeting Wednesday evening. The teacher believes cops will not be trained with schools’ restraint training protocols and won’t understand what behavioral disabilities some students may

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