Is he kidding?
Mayor Eric Adams, presiding over a cratering New York City budget, the other day tried to put the burden for school safety on parents.
The mayor said that parents may need to volunteer to help keep city schools safe after a slew of newly trained safety agents were eliminated because of city budget cuts.
What a great idea. NYPD cops can barely lay a hand on anybody suspected of wrongdoing on city streets or in the subway without becoming viral video stars or the subjects of civil lawsuits and departmental reprimands.
So now civilian parents are going to be tasked with taking a weapon away from a student or breaking up brawls in school hallways and classrooms?
What could go wrong?
Remember when an NYPD cop was suspended for allegedly punching a female I.S. 51 student who was involved in a beat-down of another girl at a city bus stop at dismissal time? Imagine what would happen if a parent was the one trying to separate the combatants.
Parents simply don’t have the training necessary to police public schools. And who would shield them from the lawsuits and other repercussions that would surely arise from their work as school safety officers? What if one of these parent volunteers decided to bring their legal, licensed firearm onto the job with them?
The possibilities for disaster are endless. The mayor, a former NYPD captain, has got to know better. That’s why we have professional law enforcement.
Besides, protecting the people and property of New York City is Adams’ job. Why else did he run for mayor? It would be a gross dereliction of duty for him to outsource public safety to parents.
When a city can’t protect its kids in schools, that’s a city that beginning to circle the drain. It’s no wonder that more and more parents are abandoning the public schools in favor of charters and home-schooling.
Seeing police and safety agents removed from schools is a dream come true for the defund-the-police crowd and other lefties. And if that comes along with open borders and endless amounts of migrants and “asylum seekers” coming here, so much the better for their agenda.
True, schools should not be armed camps. But kids can’t be left totally unprotected in school environments that aren’t always safe. And they certainly can’t be policed by parents.
Look at the violent or dangerous incidents we’ve had in recent years in and around schools on Staten Island, the safest borough in the city. A shooting outside Tottenville High School. Gun scares at Wagner High School. Brawls at school bus stops.
New York is facing steep budget cuts because of the billions of dollars that we have had to spend to house, feed and clothe the thousands upon thousands of migrants who have come here from other countries.
It’s a problem that Adams and other Dems here helped create by hyping New York as a sanctuary city and rolling out the red carpet to all who want to come here.
Well, they came. In droves. And we can easily see the reality of that policy. It’s a disaster, now leading to services being cut for the taxpaying citizens here who actually keep New York City running. We’re facing the prospect of fewer cops on the streets and cuts to sanitation, libraries and education.
Who’s city is it, anyway?
Adams wants parents policing NYC public schools. What could go wrong? (opinion)
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19.11.2023
Is he kidding?
Mayor Eric Adams, presiding over a cratering New York City budget, the other day tried to put the burden for school safety on parents.
The mayor said that parents may need to volunteer to help keep city schools safe after a slew of newly trained safety agents were eliminated because of city budget cuts.
What a great idea. NYPD cops can barely lay a hand on anybody suspected of wrongdoing on city streets or in the subway without becoming viral video stars or the subjects of civil lawsuits and departmental reprimands.
So now civilian parents are going to be tasked with taking a weapon away from a student or breaking up brawls in school hallways and classrooms?
What could go wrong?
Remember when an NYPD cop was suspended for allegedly punching a female I.S. 51 student........
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