NEW YORK - An advisory panel on Thursday voted to recommend the city's Department of Education sever ties with the NYPD as school safety officers.

It came as over 100 students, parents and teachers gathered outside Prospect Park for a rally seeking the change within the DOE.

Organizers say they want the NYPD out of city schools. What they do want are professionals who are trained to de-escalate violence and promote restorative justice - an approach that focuses on rehabilitation of those who break the rules, instead of using traditional forms of punishment.

“In our school we have a lot of great school safety agents that understand our students they work with them, they are wonderful human beings. I don’t want them to be out of a job or out of our schools per say but why is NYPD supervising them why are they training them," said one city high school teacher.

"They need social workers. We are overworked over stressed so I would much rather have that than NYPD," said another high school teacher.

Rally participants took their concerns directly to New York City school chancellor Richard Carranza. They marched a short distance from the park to his home in Flatbush. The group brought a microphone and loud speaker - so Carranza and the entire neighborhood could hear their demands. One teacher was among the speakers to address the crowd, expressing her concern about the school safety agents at her school.

It's unclear whether or not the chancellor was home. He did not come out to talk to protesters.

“I feel that all new hires should go for extensive psychological evaluation and when I say extensive I don’t mean a couple of hours. I mean a couple of weeks because we need to figure out what their triggers are," said the teacher.

The group didn’t stop there and asked those in attendance to log onto the monthly meeting hosted by the Panel for Education Policy, a group made up of 13 members and the chancellor.

The meeting was held virtually because of the coronavirus, but the public could still sign up to be a part of the hearing.

They later passed the recommendation to end the NYPD contract by a vote of 10-to-1.