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Posted on 04/10/2015 12:16:18 PM PDT by presidio9
All children deserve to be safe at school.
Yet it turns out that New York City does not provide kids who attend private schools with the same level of protection as those at public schools. That’s not only unfair, it’s unsafe. And it ought to change.
As matters stand, only public schools in the city are eligible for NYPD school-safety agents. Private schools must provide security officers on their own dime.
And while child-safety is an issue no decent school would ignore, the fact is many private schools struggle to cover the costs of adequate security — and sometimes the safety of their students suffers.
Surely no one disputes the need for comprehensive measures to guard against threats, especially in the post-9/11 world. The tragic massacre a few months ago at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was a bitter reminder that violence can erupt at any time in any place.
In America, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that more than 1 million non-fatal criminal acts took place on school grounds in 2012 alone, including 749,200 violent incidents. This does not include the many school shootings in the two years since the horrific massacre in Newtown, Conn.
Along with ensuring children’s physical well-being, adequate security is also vital for their mental and academic development. Children need to feel they are in a safe environment to thrive at school.
The most effective security: on-site personnel whose sole responsibility is safety. Here in New York, the city pays to place uniformed NYPD school-safety agents at the entrances of all public schools.
These safety agents provide an important physical presence and act as a deterrent to would-be trouble-makers. Unfortunately, no such provision exists for the city’s non-public schools.
Yet private schools often do not -SNIP-
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Having attended Catholic school in NYC at a simpler time, it never occurred to me that the City would be actively providing for the safety of the 80% of all kids who attend public schools K-12, while ignoring the other 20%.
The cynic in my wonders whether NYC's most powerful political entity, the United Federation of Teachers, had a role in this oversight.
Please discuss. And share. If you live in NYC, and you watch the news, you will know that this is an oversight that needs to be corrected immediately.
” The cynic in my wonders whether NYC’s most powerful political entity, the United Federation of Teachers, had a role in this oversight.”
G U E S S ......
Seems to me when it comes to security, the police should be making sure all children are safe equally, not just those in public school.
It should also be noted that the parents of these kids in private schools still pay the full tax load they would if their kids were in public school.
There’s no reason they shouldn’t be covered the same way a public school is.
Private schools have a huge built in safety factor which public schools refuse to employ.
They reject or expel problem students permanently.
Oh how can you say that about the blessed unions? You know they want what’s best for kids...
LOL
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DiBlasio probably thinks providing security to private schools is some kind of state support for religion or the 1% or something.
Impending Peshawar ping.
No kid is safe in public school, none of them
Good point.
Thanks OneDoug.
And what's wrong with that exactly?
It should also be noted that the parents of these kids in private schools still pay the full tax load they would if their kids were in public school.
There’s no reason they shouldn’t be covered the same way a public school is.
There are costs to remain private - if they were to get "free" service from taxpayer dollars via the cops, they would likely lose some of the freedoms associated with remaining private. IMO, this is a ploy to try to destroy private schools which do not have the same built-in brain-washing/indoctrination as the public schools.
As another FReeper noted above, the private school parents are still paying taxes to fund the city and the schools, and speaking in terms of pure demographics, I would guess the parents of private school students are generally paying a much larger share of them than most of the public school parents.
Well, whether one’s children attend public or private school, or whether one has children at all, don’t they still have to pay school, or other public service type taxes? If they do, aren’t all children then entitled to public safety, especially those who don’t cost the school systems money? It shouldn’t even be a question. Kids need to be protected!
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