The De Blasio administration was happy that the NYPD reported a decrease of 55% in arrest of students. However, that does not make the schools safer since the decrease was based on school reforms.
These school reforms decriminalizes many actions such as drugs, insubordination, threats and many other actions. Moreover, principals were no longer were ale to suspend students without the approval of the DOE at Tweed and were encouraged to handle misbehaving students "in-house", which included "warning cards" and restorative justice instead of suspension and arrest. Finally. the NYPD reforms that reduced misbehavior by the public also apples to the students which also reduced criminal charges.
Obviously, statistics can lie when criminal student behavior is reduced to a non-criminal offense, giving the false impression o reduced criminality. Does this makes schools safer? Of course not and can increase school safety issues as students who made otherwise be suspended or arrested are free to cause havoc in the schools. Just look at the disconnect between weapons found in the schools and suspensions.
The New York Daily News has an article about this Here.
6 comments:
Should teachers be concerned working at the bronx hs of science with so many Asian kids many from China and the corona virus?....need to keep washing hands and thats for all teachers
I almost fell off my chair watching last night's Democratic presidential debate as I started screaming at the TV when Michael Bloomberg had the audacity to state, "We treated our teachers the right way and the unions will tell you that." What?
This proves how full of shit all of these so called people are...OMG
They are just sweeping everything under the table.
you should feel safe in every school especially the bronx. signed, honest richard carranza
many schools have a 200:1 student to safety agent ratio while King Carranza has a 1:2 chancellor to police protection ratio. yes 2 officers for one incompetent chancellor. he feels safe which is all that matters to him.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/ny-chancellor-security-threats-20200214-aqyehqkiyfevvd4o2xbuhsnsky-story.html
Not safer. Just not reporting serious incidents. I WORK IN FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOL AND WAS PUNCHED BY A MALE STUDENT. 3 DAYS DETENTION NO POLICE REPORT.
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