Moving school safety from NYPD to DOE is a terrible idea.
This is from the NY Daily News:
The NYPD recovered two guns from public school students on Thursday — making a total of five firearms found in city schools in the past two days.
School safety agents on Thursday found one of the guns in the backpack of a 17-year-old student at Martin Van Buren High School in Queens after the student showed the weapon to a classmate, according to police.
The other gun was found in the backpack of a 14-year-old student at Intermediate School 98 in the Bronx. A classmate told a parent the student was showing off a bright pink handgun on Wednesday. The parent alerted school officials — who found the loaded gun in the student’s backpack on Thursday, according to police.
The suspect “was a 14-year-old who was being all gangster,” a seventh grader at the school told the Daily News.
The suspect “was a 14-year-old who was being all gangster,” a seventh grader at the school told the Daily News.
“The whole school was in lockdown,” the student recalled. “They told us there was a gun in the school. It lasted two periods. We couldn’t leave the class. They had us go to one side of the room.”
The discoveries come just a day after officials found three handguns at high schools in the Bronx and Brooklyn, two of which were loaded.
Two of the firearms were detected by metal detectors at Bronx high schools. Another was discovered in the waistband of a teenager during a fight at Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School in Brooklyn, according to sources.
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It was de Blasio's terrible idea. de Blasio is hell bent on criminally mismanaging the schools
because he is delusional. So, de Blasio is doing everything possible to create an educational crisis by make dangerous irresponsible changes to the schools.
de Blasio's legacy as mayor is a legacy of criminal mismanagement.
The doe will say ‘the kids were not engaged in learning. Blame the UFT and teachers’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/coronavirus-feds-backlash-relief-schools-cdc-guidance.amp
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Just a matter of time—till someone tragically fires a gun in a school—and then all the political hell and finger pointing.
No, it will be the teachers' fault. They will say, if the teachers showed they cared about the students and babied and coddled them enough and told them you have great potential, the students would not have resorted to bringing guns to school.
We've had fights at my school almost everyday the past 2 weeks. Multiple students suspended at a small school in the Lehman HS complex. Something is going on.
This can't be true. NY has amazingly strict gun laws so it isn't possible 5 different students walked into 5 separate schools with guns over a 2 day period.
Another gold standard. Like no shows passing. Like graduating high school unable to write a sentence.
It’s clearly the fault of the teacher. If he was good at engaging students with guns, they’d be so busy enthralled by his learning style they would never bring that gun to school. All one has to do to verify that is look at the student engagement section of the Danielson rubric and note that teachers are always responsible for student behavior. Whether it’s fidgeting, 9mm bullets, the teacher is responsible. I’m practicing for my interview as a nyc school superintendent. Wish me luck.
Any word from the strongest union in the country? Certainly they would weigh in about staff and student safety. Certainly our dues at least would get a "strong" letter about this. I guess not.
No do a follow up and how it's handled. It will expose why they thought they could bring them in in the first place.
12:51 100% correct. Lawless NYC.
D.S.,
I think you're right-it could be that the students and in fact everyone is suffering PTSD after this year. There should be a massive mental health initiative targeting the students and quite honestly all of us.
There's a lot of free floating anger now- we have to get back to the place where we all care about each other again.
Certainly this would be an urgent concern, right?
Creeps too close-Sex offenders moved into shelter near NYC schools — and parents are outraged
‘We don’t feel our kids are safe’: Outrage over pedophiles in NYC shelter
https://nypost.com/2021/10/21/outrage-over-pedophiles-in-nyc-shelter/
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The UFT is furious with the $500 stipend the mayor is offering to unvaccinated employees. The Municipal Labor Committee has begun the impact bargaining process with the NYC Office of Labor Relations & has put forth a demand that all vaccinated city employees should be paid $500.
These kids could be thugs or they could be tired of being victimized or afraid they’re the next victim and brought their own protection. In any scenario it reveals nyc is in the sewer. Adams better wise up fast or there will be a nyc school shooting.
I can't stand how Porter says she cares so much about the kids yet she does nothing about all of this. I can't stand how hypocritical they are. At least don't say that you care about the kids and are looking out for them when you clearly aren't.
Great. $500 plus spring break pay upcoming.
Let each and every kid walk scott free like the texas shooter!! That will teach them, it's the democratic way!!! No punishment!!!
Take away all suspension and disciplinary schools, oh right they did.
Just wondering how many guns and other weapons have not been found?
Restorative justice at its best.
Well of course the DOE will blame the teachers. However alot of folks are lying and not doing the right thing.
6:18: Yes, this will satisfy both the democrats and republicans.
There are consequences to sweeping incidents under the rug. Security becomes lax and stuff happens.
Our school is suspending kids for a variety of things. We are lucky to have a no-nonsense dean and she couldn't care less that the Superintendent and Chancellor have called for a no suspension policy. We still have mediation, and whatever else they've got going but mediation and suspensions are going hand-in-hand. The level of disrespect and abuse that is going on in some of the buildings is astounding and teachers have to take back their power. At the very least you have to document what's happening and ask for a removal, so that at least you have it in writing.
Yes, the administrators sweep everything possible under the rug. For every gun or knife we hear about in the media in a school, there are probably 10 more. Check out the NY Post and the story about a brawl at Wagner High School in SI. This is supposed to be one of the top schools in the city. In the video you see blood on the floor. Also, a knife fell out of a student's pocket. At least there is some good about kids using cell phones in school. They can record incidents like these and send them to the papers so administration can't sweep it under the rug.
There is nothing good about kids using cell phones in school.
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2:33: At least we know the truth about what is going on in the schools.
This is happening because there are no real consequences and the students all know it. Dumping more work onto teachers ie playing counselors in feelings circles is creating these fights.
There was a bad fight a while ago in Marie Curie middle school in Bayside. Parents had confronted the previous chancellor and he walked out of meeting. Should have been fired but no this is the DOE and Debosio. Amazing how fast he would change his tune if it were his kids who were beat up.
5:55 People don't know that there are fights going on in schools? That's just silly. You want students recording your every word? I don't.
LOL @ "feelings circles". My school has suspended A LOT of kids. But then we have a no-nonsense AP and he is not afraid to buck the Principal. But frankly, I think even the Principal has tired of all the coddling with no consequences for their actions.
Students at Cardozo High School posted videos of 5 different fights that happened in and around Cardozo High. These are only the one that were recorded. In the Post, the administrator down played it saying it was just kids tussling. Remember as long as your school has a high graduation rate nothing else matters. Who cares if kids bring in guns and knives and fight in the hallways. We're a great school because 90 percent of our kids graduate on time.
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