Category: News

NY Post: GOP pols calling on NYC to lift school graduation vaccine restrictions for parents

By Rich Calder Republican lawmakers are demanding city health officials allow parents and other guests be allowed to attend public school graduation ceremonies without being forced to produce proof of the jab. “To exclude parents from seeing this milestone in their children’s lives would be yet another unnecessary setback for them to have to suffer,” five […]

NY Post: Another NYC teen threatened to shoot up a Queens school ‘like in Texas’

By Susan Edelman and Dean Balsamini A teen was busted for allegedly threatening to shoot up his Queens high school in the wake of the Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas. “I’m going to shoot the school. Like in Texas. Be ready,” 18-year-old Forest Hills High School student Diego Sarmiento allegedly scrawled on a desk, according […]

Teachers, parents want real discipline as NYC student suspensions fall

By Mary Kay Linge and Kathianne Boniello A progressive push to soften school discipline has caused student suspensions to plummet — and made city classrooms more chaotic and dangerous than ever, parents and teachers charge. Suspensions of five days or more meted out by principals and superintendents plunged more than 42 percent from the fall of 2017 […]

NY Post: 2 kids threaten ‘violence’ and a shooting at separate LI, NYC schools: cops

By Amanda Woods and Joe Marino A 15-year-old boy was busted for allegedly making threats against a Long Island middle school Friday and another shooting threat led to a lockdown in a Manhattan school, authorities said. The teen, whose name was not released, threatened “violence” against Commack Middle School on Vanderbilt Parkway while using Instagram Live on May 31, […]

NY Post:13-year-old boy arrested for threatening to shoot Westhampton school

By Jesse O’Neill A 13-year-old Long Island boy was arrested Thursday after threatening to carry out a shooting at Westhampton Beach Middle School, authorities said. The teen was taken into custody around 1:30 p.m. after making the violent threats to students and school officials, Westhampton Beach Police said in a press release. The unidentified student said […]

NY Post: NYC high schooler busted with loaded gun magazine in Brooklyn

By Tina Moore A Brooklyn high school student was busted with a loaded gun magazine in his backpack Wednesday morning, police said. The 20-year-old senior was going through a scanner as he entered Erasmus High School in Flatbush when the magazine was detected, according to police.  The magazine was loaded with eight bullets, cops said. He […]

NY Post: ‘Heroic’ school safety agent slashed at Bronx elementary school: cops

By Joe Marino, Tina Moore and Amanda Woods A “heroic” NYPD school safety agent was slashed inside a Bronx elementary school Thursday morning — as he stepped in to protect a female guidance counselor whose irate ex-boyfriend showed up to attack her, cops said.  The 23-year-old suspect arrived at P.S. 69 Journey Prep School on Thieriot Avenue in […]