Hernando County School Board votes unanimously to add 10 additional SROs to district

Posted: Feb 27, 2018 / 02:41 PM EST

Updated: Feb 27, 2018 / 02:41 PM EST

HERNANDO COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – The Hernando County School Board voted unanimously on Tuesday to add 10 additional school resource officers to the district.

All schools in the county will now have SROs. Tuesday’s vote added officers to elementary school.

Christine Scheuer has a daughter who is a teacher and a grandson in kindergarten.

“I worry all the time,” she said. “Now I feel much better that there will be officers in the school and more support for the teachers.”

“I think it’s a good thing, adding more deputies. It’s going to benefit all the students,” said Karim Hemdani, who has a daughter in a Hernando school.

One elementary school teacher told us, “We consider them our kids. They are our children. We would take a bullet for them. A shooter would have to go through us to get to them.”

Training for the 10 additional officers begins on Wednesday. The changes begin on Thursday.

The cost will be split between the county commission and the school.