As more middle school students start connecting on social media, the school district is trying to keep up by providing lessons on digital citizenship.

LHS Student Resource Officers took a trip to Liberty Memorial Central Middle School to teach students about dangers of irresponsible behaviors online.

“If you talk to them while they’re…middle schoolers, by the time they get to high school they’re going to have a decent understanding of what to look out for,” SRO Bill Brantley said.

This is his third year being in the SRO program and he goes to Central every quarter to talk to sixth-graders about online safety dangers and how to use social media correctly.

“There are so many technological mediums that people can use that they don’t really think about what they may have done or not done until later and by then it’s almost too late,” Brantley said.