[EinNYC]

This is absolutely disgusting. Bloombutt and then uber-commie DumblASSio conducted a draconian campaign to rid the school system of its veteran teachers, harassing them and bringing them up on fallacious charges for several years. By doing this, not only did they get the expensive veteran teachers off the payroll, but they also particularly targeted conservative teachers with any semblance of integrity. The '60s libtard leftovers were largely left alone, since their libtard philosophy was more in step with that of the ridiculous insane DumblASSio. They replaced the veterans with right out of college newbies, who were clueless, untenured, and eager to keep their new jobs. So they went along and never questioned the ludicrous new commie libtard "educational" policies, such as "restorative justice" instead of real classroom discipline. This had, of course, the predicted results of fomenting chaos in the schools. Add to this the DumblASSio edict that students of color were not to be suspended, adding gasoline to the mix. Now, the worst-behaved students had license to do pretty much as they pleased with NO consequences! Instead of being punished, the worst they had to endure for their vandalism, threatening teachers, disrupting classes, etc. was to have to sit through laughable "restorative justice" kumbaya sessions, which they ridiculed. Here were all these libtard idiot teachers solemnly telling them all this baloney while the streetwise students just nodded and threw in an occasional "Yeah!" Then the libtard newbie teachers were soooo happy that they'd tried to reach the minority students with gentleness and understanding, you see. What a laughable farce.

The ONLY thing that kept the schools from sinking under the waves of total chaos at all were the security agents in the school. A lot of them did a very mediocre job, spending the day talking to one another instead of patrolling the halls, but at least they were a presence. The better ones kept the school functional, period. The NYPD officers were a step up from the school agents and dealt with the more violent students who assaulted other students, teachers, administrators, and did other really bad stuff.

Now these starry eyed libtard young idiots they hired to replace the veteran teachers they drove out have signed, en masse, a letter requesting that the NYPD be ousted from the schools and the security agents, and that the money then be used to fund classes promoting "black and brown heritage", "restorative justice", and other ABSURD libtard nonsense.

The schools have made extremely tiny "improvements" in reading, math, etc., most of which I suspect is simply by jiggling numbers rather than actual improvement. Can you imagine what would happen if the ONLY thin blue line preventing total chaos is eliminated by the libtard earnest young teachers and administrators asking the NYPD to leave the schools?

[aimhigh]

There is no greater greed than that of the educational system.

[madison10]

There will not BE any schools if the police are defunded, you over educated dunces.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Schools?
Don’t you mean the breakfast and lunch program?

[simpson96]

Just confirms how many teachers are commies.

[PGR88]

NY already spends the most in the nation on the bloated education bureaucracy - 89% HIGHER per student than national average. Let’s make it an even 100%!

[Deplorable American1776]

So if you are robbed by a thug in New York City, thank a teacher 😋

[E. Pluribus Unum]

NYC educators demand de-funding of police, diverting funds to schools teachers' union

Fixed it.

[matthew fuller]

I have a much better idea- Let’s defund ALL “public” schools, K-12 plus all state colleges. Look at the total amount of cash that will free up!

[Mastador1]

The police should get a list of all the educators address and then send flyers to all their neighbors stating (whatever gender they think they are)____________ your neighbor is an educator that believes the police should be de-funded, are you okay with no police? Has ____________ discussed or asked your opinion about no police protection in your city?

I’m willing to be a goodly number of neighbors would be up for kicking some educator ass!

[Seruzawa]

The violence is organized via the universities. Fire the culprits. They are easy to identify. They can’t keep their mouths shut.

[vpintheak]

And by divert to education, they mean to their pay and pensions.
Sorry for you sane NYers; but maybe your city needs to burn and have anarchy before sanity returns. The majority of the people voted it in. Let them stew in it.

[blueplum]

The schools don’t need funds.

In fact ,we can cut school funding now that parents have discovered home schooling and tele-schooling. Think of all the tax dollars property owners will save.

[mewzilla]

Those funds won’t be diverted to schools.

Those funds would be diverted to teachers’ pensions and health bennies.

[fluorescence]

New York City public schools are the most expensive in America, costing taxpayers $25,199 per student per year, more than twice the US average of $12,201 (see: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2019/school-spending.html). That amount is approaching the tuition fees charged by private colleges.
Where does all the money go? Why would anyone believe that spending even more would help? The article mentions diverting ‘millions’ towards schools but even several tens of millions would be a rounding error against their budget.