Parents, students, and teachers were asked how satisfied they were with the public schools and parents gave a 95% approval rating of the education their children are getting. However, they had one overriding complaint. You guessed it school safety issues. All three groups expressed concern to the deteriorating school safety climate and saw their satisfaction levels drop in this category.
The largest drop came from teachers who saw their school safety issue a concern. The 2016 report showed that teachers most affected by the deteriorating school safety issue by increasing 5% from 2015. The percentage of teachers who reported that order and discipline are maintained at their schools fell from 85% in 2015 to 80% in 2016.
Both Bill de Blasio and Carmen Farina claim that suspensions and arrests are disproportionately given to Black and Latino students and therefore, is racial in nature. However, the head of the school safety agents, Greg Floyd, which is 90% minority (70% women) said the following statements to the Chief with regard to the high arrest rates of minority students.
"Activists like to take statistics and run with them, they don't like to look at the complete picture. No one is looking to arrest black or white students, they're arresting students who are committing crimes".
"Given the de Blasio administration's record of allowing crime to go unpunished, I suspect that now there's going to be a push not to arrest anybody in the schools for doing anything."
With the new, more lenient student discipline polices enacted by our clueless and inept Mayor and his disappointing Chancellor, look for school safety issues to become an increasingly dangerous problem as violent and insubordinate students are left in class to continue to terrorize and disrupt the classroom making a peaceful classroom where everybody can learn a pipe dream.
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I believe that many principals in schools that have metal detectors will request that they be taken out. Every time a weapon is found at scanning is a statistical marker against the school; if there is no scanning, no weapons are confiscated and no strike against the school. A de facto award for principals and schools that take out metal detectors. What has to happen before this mayor understands how stupid and dangerous his policies are?
I am glad that I can remain anonymous with my posting because I can 100% attest to the fact that the teachers at our school have not been filling out as many incident reports as in the past due to fear of being labeled a dangerous school. The same thing is going on with crime in NYC. What is the best way to make our schools and streets seem safer? Simply do not report anything. If school incidents and or street crimes are not reported, it is iike they never happened.
Many teachers are being assaulted and pressured by admins not to call police or file an incident report. If they do they are targeted or discontinued. This is all to give the appearance of a safe trouble free school. Police are"nt making arrests or downplaying incidents because they don't meet new technical parameters from DeBlasio's directives to Bill Bratton. Bill Braton left for a reason. The mayor wants the public to believe the city and schools are safer and safer because of him. He and Farina are constantly tooting their horns. The reality is much different and most people know it. The UFT should be picketing Gracie Mansion on behalf of our students and teachers. I took my son out of public school when I found that his teacher could no longer control the class because none of the trouble makers were being removed or reprimanded. In charter schools DeBlasio's rules don't apply. It's one of the biggest selling points for them. Being a teacher I couldn't in good conscience do it; I went the Catholic school route instead. Safety takes precedence over everything, no learning can go on without it.
Many teachers are being assaulted and pressured by admins not to call police or file an incident report. If they do they are targeted or discontinued. This is all to give the appearance of a safe trouble free school. Police are"nt making arrests or downplaying incidents because they don't meet new technical parameters from DeBlasio's directives to Bill Bratton. Bill Braton left for a reason. The mayor wants the public to believe the city and schools are safer and safer because of him. He and Farina are constantly tooting their horns. The reality is much different and most people know it. The UFT should be picketing Gracie Mansion on behalf of our students and teachers. I took my son out of public school when I found that his teacher could no longer control the class because none of the trouble makers were being removed or reprimanded. In charter schools DeBlasio's rules don't apply. It's one of the biggest selling points for them. Being a teacher I couldn't in good conscience do it; I went the Catholic school route instead. Safety takes precedence over everything, no learning can go on without it.
Can't wait till they remove the metal detectors at my high school. Remember, there's opportunity in chaos. Remove them please!!!!!
The story is the same in my neck of the woods. My principal twice threatened me for sending him e-mails about what was going on in my part of the building. Students were wandering the halls and popping into classes. One morning I heard a ruckus so I went out in the hallway to see what was going on. I dispersed the little group. When I looked up, I saw the principal standing by the stairwell letting me handle the matter. He would side with the students without even hearing what the teacher had to say. He thought the world of other teachers who in his eyes could do no wrong. They were young and attractive and did not stay long in the school despite his show of favoritism.
SO RIGHT YOU ARE! Look at Chancellor's Regulation regarding SAVE and the teacher removal form appended to it. It was changed drastically so that a "Ladder of Referral" makes it a laborious task to have a student removed from the classroom by the teacher. I believe this was done during DeBlasio's first year.
Teachers at my school 'pretend not to see' an awful lot. It is a survival skill.
Last year when one teacher meticulously reported on our online system every serious infraction done by students, the administration told him he couldn't control his class and put a target on his back. The rest of us, who have the same problems with student behavior, but who learned to just pretend it doesn't happen, shook our heads sadly...newbies need to learn faster these days.
PLEASE check your 8/15 check. Dues went up again. Now over $58. I thought they went up when the top salary went up. There is no raise in August. Screwed again.
That Ed Notes guy would blame teachers for not being able to control the students.
DeBlasio's blindness to reality is going to result in disaster. Farina has to know how dangerous this is, she needs to sit him down and talk to him like the idealistic man-child he is. Cell phones and guns, but no pens or pencils. I'm going to apply to work at a charter, at least you can teach in learning conducive environment.
all you people do is complain and complain and cry like babies!! you never really do anything.
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