Teen, woman terrorized by Qns. pimp: DA
DESPITE A reduction in suspensions and comprehensive discipline reform, the school climate has gotten worse under Mayor de Blasio’s watch, with teachers and students reporting more fights and increased gang activity, a new study says.
There is less order and discipline in the classroom, and mutual respect is going the way of the slide rule in the years since de Blasio took over public education, according to a report to be issued Tuesday by the conservative Manhattan Institute.
An institute researcher compared two years of school discipline under de Blasio with two years of school discipline under his predecessor, Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
“Overall, the pattern is consistent and unmistakable: School climate remained relatively steady under Bloomberg’s discipline reforms but has deteriorated rapidly under de Blasio’s,” wrote study author Max Eden, an institute senior fellow.
“If we believe what students and teachers report, hundreds of thousands of students in New York City are now being educated in schools that are less respectful, less orderly and more violent.”
In 2015 and 2016, the years selected for the de Blasio snapshot, there were 15,857 fewer suspensions issued than in 2013 and 2014, the years under Bloomberg.
During the de Blasio years, 302 teachers of the 957 surveyed, or 32%, reported that order and discipline were not maintained in their school, compared with 280 teachers, or 29%, in the two years under Bloomberg.
More students, 340, or 37% of the 909 surveyed, reported frequent physical fighting during the de Blasio years than the 235, or 26%, during the Bloomberg years.
And 398, or 44%, of students surveyed in middle and high school under de Blasio said students respect one another.
Under Bloomberg, it was 244 students, or 27%.
Representatives for the city Education Department and the mayor’s office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The comparisons come during a period when school districts across the country have dramatically changed their approach to discipline in the wake of national data that revealed striking racial differences in suspensions.
According to the federal Education Department, black students in the 2011-12 school year were three times as likely to be suspended and expelled as white students.
The goal, reform advocates said, was to reduce suspensions without eroding school climate.
The institute study suggested that de Blasio’s reforms were “a step too far,” and that some of the reforms should be rolled back.
“Success should not be measured by the number of suspensions but by the number of schools with an improved school climate,” United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said last year amid concern over growing school chaos. A PIMP from Queens kidnapped a 15-year-old girl and a 21-yearold woman and forced them into prostitution — once using a cigar to burn the teenager’s leg when she tried to get away from him, prosecutors said.
Corey Hannah, 34, of Hollis, met his teenage victim when she was just 14, and, over the course of two months in 2016, raped her and forced her to have sex with men in hotels, officials said.
Hannah (photo), who’s served three stints in state prison, was indicted on sex trafficking, kidnapping, rape and other charges, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said Monday.
The ex-con met his 21-year-old victim in March 2015 through a phone dating service, Brown said. He took her to dinner and lured her into staying with him. The next day, the woman found her purse and ID missing.
Hannah told her that she’d have to work as a prostitute if she wanted her purse back, prosecutors said.
He told her he’d kill her if she didn’t go along, choking her in one instance, and scratching her above her eye in another, prosecutors said.
Hannah forced the 15-yearold girl into a similar arrangement in May and June, burning her leg with a lighted cigar and scarring her when she tried to refuse to work for him, prosecutors said.