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November 2018
Familiar Faces Tapped for ACS School
Safety Officer Positions
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Donelson Elementary celebrated grandparents with a special invitation to
eat lunch with the students at the school.
Photos Courtesy of DES
arlington elementary
Arlington Elementary kindergarten students and their families enjoyed the
beautiful fall weather at the Memphis Zoo during their field trip in October.
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Arlington Community
Schools Superintendent
Tammy
Mason
announced on October 5
that the district will add an
additional School Safety
Officer to its elementary
schools, giving each
school an officer presence.
In September, Mason
announced the district
would hire one SSO,
thanks in part to a grant
from
the
Tennessee
Department
of
Education’s Safe Schools
grant. After examining the
budget, Mason decided to
hire an additional SSO.
“We
made
the
determination that not
only could we afford the
additional position but it
made sense to do it now,”
Mason said. “This allows
for a full-time officer
presence at all four
schools.”
ACS will now have an
SSO at each elementary
school,
one
School
Resource Officer at the
middle school and two
SROs at the high school.
The SSO positions are
also being filled with
familiar faces. Ronnie
Sewell and Fred Solang,
both longtime SRO’s at
Arlington High School
and law enforcement
officers for the Shelby
County Sheriff’s Office,
have been tapped for the
jobs.
“We couldn’t be more
fortunate to have these
two
long-time
and
knowledgeable officers
join the team,”
Mason said. “They
know
our
families,
schools and community
well. And they’re familiar
with how ACS operates,
so we think it’s going to
be a very smooth
transition.”
Both
SSOs
are
expected to be in place by
the end of the first
semester.
A New Look for ACS
The Arlington Community Schools recently
revealed a new logo and mo o, replacing the book
and tree mo f with a stylized star containing the
le er A within it and introducing the tagline: Think.
Create. Achieve