Commenters with a racial agenda can have a blast blaming race. At least you will be on topic. Problem with that view is that when white kids snap in schools around the country and use deadly weapons, we never hear anything from the people with the agenda.
Children being killed in schools has to stop. Schools should be safe havens.
Dear Staff,
I am saddened to share that a student life was lost today as a result of a tragic incident at the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation in the Bronx. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and school community during this
incredibly difficult time.
The Mayor and I were in the Bronx today to support grieving families, concerned students, and staff members and we are ensuring that additional grief counselors and NYPD School Safety Agents will be at the school tomorrow and in the coming
days.
The loss of a student is heartbreaking and the DOE and the NYPD are working to conduct a thorough investigation. The safety of students and staff always comes first and we rely on our safety protocols, our staff, and
our partnerships with students, parents, families, and communities to ensure the safety of all school buildings.
Principals and school staff should review information on the Principal’s Portal: http://intranet.nycboe.net/DOEPortal/Principals/SchoolSupport/SchoolOperations/SafetyDiscipline/default.htm
Today, we stand with the entire city as we mourn, and we remain committed to ensuring every child has a safe, welcoming school to attend, every day.
Thank you,
Carmen Fariña
2 Points: 1) This teacher should be hailed as a hero since he tried to subdue the person with the knife. However, knowing the DOE, this poor teacher will probably get a letter to file for failing to maintain an orderly class. 2) This is was co-located school that contained a high school and an ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. This tragic event shows that co-locating high schools with elementary schools is a horrible concept. Just imagine if this stabbing incident took place in an area of the school where elementary students were and one of them got hurt. End co-locations of high and elementary schools now!
ReplyDeleteWhy did she not stop the bullying which made the stabbing take place? And this goes on all over, every day, to students and staff.
ReplyDeleteMore free rides for lowlifes. Take out metal detectors. No punishment, its racist. No suspensions, its disproportionate.
ReplyDeleteIf there were metal detectors this wouldn't have happened. If there were suspensions the kid wouldn't have been constantly bullied. If the staff was trained to do anything to stop bullying this wouldn't have happened. This is all on the NYCDOE because it has made metal detectors optional, pulled them out, stopped suspensions and arrests and hasn't trained its staff on restorative justice or anti-bullying procedures.
ReplyDeleteOne look at the arrested kid told me he was tormented for being gay. No one did anything. No metal detectors. No suspensions. No consequences for anything from anyone.
ReplyDeleteAgreed, clear as day, he was abused, he felt no other option existed. The bully got what he had coming.
ReplyDeleteWe are mourning for a bully...NOT.
ReplyDeleteNYC mayor, AKA The dope from Park slope, will move the metal detectors into this school for a week until the media focuses their cameras somewhere else. Then sadly, like the Servpro slogan says, it will be "like it never happened"
ReplyDeleteBuilding not designed for a high school. Building not designed for collocation of elementary school with high school.
ReplyDeleteBuilding does not have elevator. Building does not have scanners. Building is inaccessible for folks with disabilities.
DOE gets an F for resource management.
The horrific tragedy is a direct consequence of the egregious mismanagement of facilities by the DOE, as in Superintendent Carmen Farina.
As a senile sycophant retained from the Bloomberg era, she is a failure as a Superintendant.
A kid died today. Yet all I see is the same racist crap I often see on this board. At least wait a few days before dropping your racist diatribes. A little decency...just a little.
ReplyDeleteWhat comment is racist, Clovis? People who are legitimately outraged at the lack of an adequate DOE discpline policy and lack of adequate resources to help those in need of serious counseling are not automatically racist. I've read some racist comments on this blog but none of the comments here as of this morning are racist. Roseanne McCosh
ReplyDeleteAnd we are fearful that we will be next, why should I risk my life because I am a teacher? And then a few posts back, somebody writes the teachers who post on here should be stabbed. Because we complain about being abused? because we state facts? Becaase the DOE is a joke?
ReplyDeleteThis is what was written on this blog..."Some teachers who comment on this blog deserve to be stabbed. But then they are chicken shit cowards who hide behind anonymity" What a disgusting comment, an educated teacher who got all the degrees and goes to work to teach has to deal with a disgusting, lousy job that has gotten completely out of control, with a reckless chancellor and mayor and a useless uft, criminal students, but I should be stabbed. As usual, the liberal people here have forgotten the facts and what happened, and turned the story into white teachers are racist and its somebody elses fault.
ReplyDeleteThat comment on people deserving to be stabbed was not meant to be taken literally. Some of the race bites here are not too bright.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but if one of us had been stabbed???? Its not race, these are facts.
ReplyDeleteThat's all the left sees is race! race and more race.
ReplyDelete7:08, And if your son or you were attacked or killed, maybe you would see the problems more clearly. If the students say nigga a million times a day, and I say it once, can i say I didnt mean it literally?
ReplyDeleteTypical DOE problems, everybody needs to head for the exit asap. Disrespect, abuse, the hits keep coming. But dont worry, the uft will soon put a huge dollar sign on the website to remind you of the retro, a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of what is owed, with no interest.
ReplyDeleteHere are some facts from an ATR guidance counselor who was at this school for 4 weeks before being "rotated" out of the school. Yes, this tiny little high school sits on the 5th floor of basically an elementary school building. The High School has the top floor (5) and the rest of the building is elementary though 8th grade.
ReplyDeleteTo get to the high school you have to walk up 5 stories as there is no elevator in the building. When you get to the top floor you are out of breath. The school lacks DOE guidance counselors or social workers but rather they have a "no profit" group up there with people pretending to be guidance counselors and social workers but they have little training and most of them are just a bit older than the students themselves not to mention no where near any post graduate study mastering in counseling or social work.
When I was assigned to the school as an ATR guidance counselor they made me sit at a table all day and do nothing. Meanwhile the people from the non profit organization worked with students or should I say they did very little to support kids and after speaking with some of the workers from the non profit group I was shaking my head in disbelief in thinking that the DOE chooses to rotate their "real" social emotional people such as guidance counselors and social workers and keep these no nothing cheap labor bozos to guide the kids. The result unfortunately is quite tragic but maybe a wake up call to the DOE to make sure they get their social emotional people in the schools now!!!
You are absolutely correct about this. There are many calling themselves school counselor/college counselor/school social worker without the credentials of a master's level NYS certification/NYC DOE license. This is being allowed. This is a tragedy indeed. Can these entities at least label themselves advisors, specialists, advocates.
DeleteIt's every day I see racist stuff on here. I really just come here for information because James does a great job providing it.
ReplyDeleteThe kid who died was probably a jerk. But he's still someone who was killed in a NYC public school. I feel empathy for the child that stabbed him, but I can nor will not justify killing someone just because they bullied you. They should have had help provided and at this stage we don't know what level of help will be provided. But to come on here and see statements about "thugs" and "n*ggas" doesn't reaffirm my faith in the teaching profession.
I have important things to do and I would rather spend my lunch hour doing something else but I guess I have to watch the comments a little closer and delete those that are way over the top.
ReplyDeletePlease stay on topic and at least keep it relatively clean.
I also agree that we need to stop rotating our guidance counselors and social workers and lets get them into our schools. The DOE is paying deeply right now as the school has inferior people who are not licensed guidance counselors or social workers. Having inferior low wage people from non profits in our schools is proving to be more harmful then good.
ReplyDeleteIn my school we have a non profit also who sends 3-4 people calling themselves counselors but the fascinating thing is that these people are young kids themselves without any advanced level of training. The DOE currently has approx. 300 guidance counselors in the atr pool and several hundred social workers as well. News Flash to the DOE. Put the real guidance counselors and social workers in our schools and stop the madness!!! If this incident does not put an end to the atr pool for counselors then it never will.
THis school has the PHIPPS people there. They are a group who take up office space and pretend to be counselors and social workers with no certification what so ever. Phipps schools are a disaster just look it up. Any school with these people in there have proven to be worth less and dangerous to the kids. Instead of using our DOE guidance counselors and social workers this school opts for the PHIPPS disaster non profit.
ReplyDeleteCheck it out. At another school in the bronx, The Metropolitan HS where the school uses PHIPPS people, a PHIPPS person was fired after she took a razor blade from a student . Harmless you say?? Well the razor blade was hidden AFTER the kid used it to cut another student!!! The PHIPPS person helped the student hide the razor!!! Get them out!!
This tragedy affects all involved. Students, staff and families should not have to worry about their safety inside of a school. Many lives have been affected at that school due to this tragic event. May everyone heal from this.
ReplyDeleteContact Rthompson@uft.org to inform of these issues affecting school counselor positions and affecting students' access to a school counselor. School counselors have priority hiring and are to be excessed last among the mental health providers in a school. FYI, the term is no longer guidance counselors; it's school counselor. It's official! Schools counselors practice within three domains: academic counseling, career/college counseling and social-emotional counseling. Within a school counselor's training are counseling theories, individual and group counseling, multicultural counseling, career development, etc. The White House recognizes the importance of students' access to school counselors in a yearly recognition ceremony and NYC does not get it. A lot of mismanagement.
ReplyDeletePlease provide Rthompson@uft.org information. Writing on this blog is great, but school counselors need to communicate with the union representative that advocates for school counselors.
ReplyDeleteSome school counselors have been placed in DOE offices. They need to be placed in schools where services to students could be provided. Nothing justifies this. Give those positions to retirees.
ReplyDeleteEveryone involved in this tragic event will need counseling/therapy. Students in general are in need of counseling services; not just student that receive mandated counseling services.
ReplyDeleteThis school's procedures/protocols on the day of this tragedy will be placed under a microscope. More changes in protocols city-wide to follow.
ReplyDeleteThis is truly a tragedy. A life was lost, another wounded, traumatic experiences have to be overcome, etc. May something good come out of all this. It is truly very saddening.
ReplyDeleteYeah and the mayor wants to pull metal detectors from schools because it's racists against african Americans. It makes the schools feel like a jail. More liberal crap. Stay safe my friends the Civil War II is coming
ReplyDeleteReport to Rthompson@uft.org and ask if she will advocate for school counseling in regard to your concerns. It's confidential. All school counselors need to inform Rthompson. Protect your profession and title.
ReplyDeleteAny update on this tragedy?
ReplyDeleteSchool counselors have preference in hiring over other mental health providers in a school. When excessing occurs, school counselors are the last to get excessed. This is in the contract. The union needs to enforce the contract.
ReplyDeleteHighly Effective King Clovis, never let the truth get in the way of the narrative.
ReplyDeleteAdministration excesses whoever the hell they want to. Another Unity supporter living in fantasyland.
ReplyDeleteWe all know this. Stating a fact does not imply acknowledgement of knowing admin does whatever they want. We all know why this happens as well.
DeleteIt happen because our union has no balls.
ReplyDeleteDon't waste your breathe with prncipals and APs that don't value your years of education, training and experience. They don't care and the DOE is giving them the rubber stamp to proceed with educational instruction and 'counseling' on the cheap. In terms of educational instruction, a school site should have experienced, mid-range and novice educators. With regards to counseling, the same, but instead agencies like Phipps come in to provide the services and other scams are rubber-stamped with approval by the DOE. Shameful! Education on the Cheap - nice slogan.
ReplyDeleteInform your district representatives, special reps, ATR rep. Let them know what is going on inside the schools. Don't say, 'they don't do anything." You pay dues. Many people don't inform the union reps. Inform them. If they hear it often enough, the union may just do something about a situation that is going on city-wide. This blog provides the opportunity to exchange ideas, etc., but let's be realistic, if you're not informing the union, then don't expect any changes. Email the union.
ReplyDeleteThe union is in bed with the DOE. They will blame us and tell us we need to get along with the principal.
ReplyDeleteLet the union know anyway, not the chapter leader. There are many issues which should be brought straight to the union.
ReplyDeleteSo the union can tell the principal who will go after us. Better off laying low.
ReplyDelete@11:11PM - Let the union know not to mention your name. Heard of the word Anonymous.
ReplyDeleteUFT has been known to rat out people. This is not the teamsters.
ReplyDeleteSad!
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