In the aftermath of the school shooting in Florida last month, Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray hosted a town hall with more than 150 teenagers Thursday to talk about the city's approach to school security.

The students came from all five boroughs, but one issue came up again and again: school safety agents and why students feel they can't trust them.

School safety agents have several responsibilities: escorting visitors, using scanning equipment and generally ensuring the security of students.

But city students say that sometimes the agents make them feel less safe, because of how they relate to their charges.

Sagar Sharma, 17, a student at John Bowne High School in Queens, told the mayor that his school is now one of 51 in the city with daily metal detector scanning. The detectors were installed after after a student was stabbed last year. At first, the city placed temporary agents at the door.

"During that week, every morning we were greeted by the school safety agents with the phrase, ‘Good morning John Bowne stabbers,'" said Sharma. Those agents were eventually replaced, but Sharma said the damage was done.

Other students, like Olukemi Jemilugba, 16, from Scholars Academy in Rockaway Beach, said they felt agents target students of color, watching them as if they are criminals.

Officials seemed conflicted about how to respond. Mark Rampersant, who runs security for the Department of Education, tried putting some of the responsibility for fixing the system back on the students, encouraging them to take the initiative to introduce themselves to school safety agents.

Some students seemed to think meeting agents was a good idea, but that it should be the adults who reached out first. Stuyvesant High School sophomore Morgan Hesse, 16, said she didn't know the officers at her school — or feel comfortable with them — and suggested the agents try to meet in small groups with students.

"So you'd like the opportunity to get to know them better and…have conversation and dialogue with them," McCray responded.

"Definitely," said Hesse.

De Blasio approved.

"As is the spirit of the town hall meetings we have, sometimes we make decisions right on the spot. So I think we should be doing this in every school," said de Blasio. Turning to his staff from the Department of Education and NYPD he added, "Let's find a way to do it."