> DOE Chancellor Carmen Fariña said that school climate was improving Monday and pointed to drops in suspensions and arrests. <
In my neck of the woods principals are given bonuses for reducing suspensions. And reducing suspensions is one thing looked at when promoting principals. So guess what? There are less suspensions.
Classroom fights and hallway fights, they are increasing. But suspensions are down. So it’s all good.
That is exactly what I've been saying. It's all smoke and mirrors and no substance. School administrators are pressured apparently now coast-to-coast to underreport school violence so that the top administrators and politicians look good. And the dismal academic failures of the students occurring over and over, coming about as a result of teachers being forbidden to "scare", "make feel bad", "intimidate"---i.e. DISCIPLINE--students and teachers being forced, without any teacher input, to teach far-left curricula with ludicrous "teaching" methods forbidding them to stand up and actually teach in front of the class.