Posted on 02/01/2017 6:32:07 AM PST by C19fan
New state data show the 2015-16 year was the worst on record when it comes to serious violence in city schools — even as Mayor Bill de Blasio says his data show it was the safest. Which do you believe?
The State Education Department on Monday posted its latest Violent and Disruptive Incident Report, or VADIR. In the key category of serious incidents, it shows a rise of nearly 6 percent, up from 15,934 incidents in 2014-15 to 16,851 in 2015-16.
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The sewer rats and the rivers will keep the thugs out.
/ end reference to Port Jervis NY and their “the mountains will keep the drugs out” claim in response to drug and weapon problems in their schools.
BLM?
Have they embraced the dark side?
The media will never tell us why.
Nope. They are just as crooked as the politicians.
As long as they are providing safe spaces in the schools, for these young violent offenders to cool off, all is good in a liberal world.
Every one is copying BillyJeff and Buraq O’Bama style.
BillyJeff: “.... what ‘is’ is”
Whoopi: “Not guilty because it is not rape-rape”
Buraq O’Bama and his admin changed the definition (and counting), hence we don’t/didn’t have any war or civilian casualty.
Voila! City (School) violence is down.
Just shy of 100 violent incidents per day.
Sounds like it’s safer in Baghdad than in NYC Public Schools.
Democrats who run the city will lie... and the democrats running the press with lie with them.
Nice little ‘thug system’ they’ve got going...
A major purpose of the public schools in large cities is to keep the under 18 set “off the streets”. In some schools this is a more important goal than education. The previous administration claimed that discipling students was creating a school to jail highway, and threatened investigation and punishment if certain demographics are “over-represented” in suspensions/expulsions. On top of this, schools are paid by the number of kids they have per day. They don’t get any money for suspended/expelled kids.
Local politicians encourage this mind-set and the schools go along—heck, they probably share the idea as well. Parents who are able, pull their kids from school. Parents who can’t have to let their children suffer.
Second, DeBlASSio decreed that teachers had to devote a phenomenal amount of precious time to fully justify any suspensions of students grades 3-12, because---you guessed it---there seemed to be a preponderance of minority students being suspended. And DeBlASSio just love his minorities, you betcha.
Third, DeBlASSio changed the cell phone policy to "no cell phones allowed in school" to "cell phones allowed in school, but not taken out". Well, only a complete imbecile could not predict that students would interpret that as "cell phones allowed", and L-rd knows that all I heard all day when I asked them to put them away. Cell phones are the biggest detriment to learning I've seen. Students spend entire periods watching movies during class (!) when they should be listening to the lesson, photographing their tests and texting them to their friends across the classroom to copy, surreptitiously recording or photographing the teacher to get them into trouble, actually making calls during class (!), texting, playing loud music on purpose to disrupt the class, etc. Doesn't leave much time for learning anything, does it? And then officials wonder why the students aren't learning---teachers' fault, of course!
Fourth, DeBlASSio has administrators going around doing "drive-by" observations on teachers. For those who the administrator doesn't like, there are many extra observations done, and they are pretty much automatically rated unsatisfactory in order to smear the teacher and set them up for termination. So you have a lot of very fine teachers (usually veterans) who reject Commie Core and are attempting to teach the way decades of experience has told them works, and are found suddenly unsatisfactory. Or even if they teach according to Commie core, they are still found unsatisfactory, because they are earning top salaries and are tenured, and the school system wants to replace them with cheap newbies who are not tenured and who they can intimidate to teach according to any weird, untested method presently favored by libtards who often aren't even educators. And if you dare try to discipline a student ("Please put your cell phone away", for example), the student, empowered by years of Bloomberg siccing students on teachers and completely undermining teacher authority, simply gets a half dozen of their friends to write statements against the teacher, accusing them of virtually anything (none of which the teacher did or said), and voila! The teacher is up on charges and can be terminated, and the students who want to get their way WIN.
Fifth, school administrators are strongly discouraged from filing or reporting violence in their schools, so that they don't make the school look bad.
So, any questions as to why NYC are much more violent?
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