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: Parkland vic’s dad blasts Schumer for ‘heartbreaking’ school safety bill block
By Callie Patteson The father of a victim of the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Fla., ripped Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) this week after he blocked a school safety bill named in the victim’s honor, calling the move “heartbreaking.” On Wednesday, one day after the shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, that […]
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 […]
Video of Shooting Outside Boys & Girls High School on February 28 at 2:50PM
Join Us For Our NYC School Safety Town Hall Meeting on March 2, At 7:00PM
The safety situation in our schools continues to deteriorate endangering our children. According to the New York Police Department, the number of guns seized in schools in the city has increased by an astonishing 80 percent this year, with 3,315 weapons collected in schools from July 1 to February 20, compared to 1,845 around the same […]
NY Post: NYC mayor calls student weapons busts an ‘indictment’ of the city
By Bernadette Hogan and Selim Algar The troubling surge in student weapons busts is an “indictment” on the state of crime in the Big Apple, Mayor Eric Adams said Wednesday in response to an exclusive Post report. Weapons seizures in schools are up by 80 percent this year, compared to pre-pandemic levels — including a marked rise in gun, knife […]
NY Post: NYC school weapons recoveries have skyrocketed by 80 percent this academic year
By Selim Algar It’s an arms race inside the nation’s largest school system. Student weapons busts have skyrocketed by 80 percent compared to pre-pandemic levels, according to startling new NYPD data. From guns and knives to tasers and pepper spray, city kids are are packing a lot more than books this year. A Bedford-Stuyvesant teacher told The Post […]