--- title: People Love This Officer's Viral Back-to-School Photo description: This School Resource Officer's viral back-to-school photo is a reminder that the end of summer is inching up upon us all. canonical: https://time.com/5363259/back-to-school-photo-viral/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-08-09T20:41:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:15.479Z og:title: People Really Relate to This Viral Back-to-School Photo og:description: It's the first day of school for many — including this School Resource Officer og:url: https://time.com/5363259/back-to-school-photo-viral/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: People Really Relate to This Viral Back-to-School Photo twitter:description: It's the first day of school for many — including this School Resource Officer twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # People Are Relating to This Man's Viral Back-to-School Photo  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 9, 2018 8:41 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 9, 2018 8:41 PM UTC As August marches forward, the end of [summer](http://time.com/5359058/oprah-dancing-havana/) is upon us in just a few short weeks. That means that for students, back-to-school season is right around the corner — and for some, class is already in session. While some may eagerly [look forward](http://time.com/5288503/travis-brenda-kentucky-teacher-election/) to crisp textbooks, new notebooks and [seasonal beverages](http://www.extracrispy.com/food/4105/starbucks-will-put-pumpkin-spice-whipped-cream-on-your-pumpkin-spice-latte-for-a-limited-time), others are less than enthusiastic about the end of vacation. [Exhibit A:](https://www.facebook.com/ShelbyCounty.Sheriff/posts/1973728479360375) Sergeant Nathan Kendrick, a School Resource Officer in Shelby County, [Alabama](http://time.com/5359461/alabama-volleyball-audubon-birds/). The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office [shared](https://www.facebook.com/ShelbyCounty.Sheriff/posts/1973728479360375) a hilariously relatable photo of Kendrick posing with a “2018 1st Day of School” whiteboard sign and a Spiderman lunchbox on Facebook this week. The best part of the photo, though, is Kendrick’s deeply unhappy face: even the Sheriff’s Office describes his look as “reluctant.” In a video interview [with Fox News](https://video.foxnews.com/v/5819960666001/?#sp=show-clips), Kendrick described the response to the image as “entertaining.” “The lunchbox belongs to my little boy… so I had stolen it from him,” Kendrick explained, adding that his son is in fifth grade. (Inside the lunchbox, he was packing a peanut butter and jelly sandwich — crustless, of course — and a Capri-Sun juice pouch, classics of the elementary school lunch experience.) Kendrick also made sure to clarify that his expression was in relation to the concept of having to take a first-day photo, and _not_ about school in general. Kendrick’s photo kicked off an “#SROChallenge” on Twitter, in which other School Resource Officers uploaded their own first-day-of-school pictures to social media. > [](https://twitter.com/RodneyLehman08/status/1027210571534532614) > [](https://twitter.com/David86241685/status/1027570121617944576) > [](https://twitter.com/Knoxville%5FPD/status/1027221087292014592) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5363259/back-to-school-photo-viral/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5363259/back-to-school-photo-viral/"},"headline":"People Are Relating to This Man's Viral Back-to-School Photo","datePublished":"2018-08-09T20:41:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:15.479Z","description":"Summer vacation has to end some time","url":"https://time.com/5363259/back-to-school-photo-viral/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","back to school"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5363259/back-to-school-photo-viral/","name":"People Are Relating to This Man's Viral Back-to-School Photo"}}]}] ```