NYC Public Schools Change ‘Discipline Code’ To Ease Penalties For Smoking, Cursing, Cutting Class

Is Education In The Big City Getting Soft? Schools Chancellor Walcott Says No Students may be catching a break if they misbehave in school. The rules surrounding suspensions in New York City schools are changing.

The changes to the discipline code should result in far fewer suspensions, CBS 2’s Vanessa Murdock reported Wednesday.

“Our goal is to make sure the schools are providing a safe environment for our students, but also we just don’t push students out of the classroom where they’re not learning as well,” Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said.

What will be different? Well, for starters Walcott said cutting class and cursing will no longer be grounds for suspension.

In other words, the student goons in the NYC schools have pulled a Cloward-Piven on the administration (flooded it with the things that will no longer be “bad”) and the administration caved.

Brilliant!

“What will be different? Well, for starters Walcott said cutting class and cursing will no longer be grounds for suspension.”

Well, discipline hurts the students’ “feelings” so it of course must be removed according to the current leftist mindset.

“Neither will smoking, something that left a few parents bewildered.”

That is surprising considering that’s the one vice modern liberals consider anathema.

we just don’t push students out of the classroom where they’re not learning as well

How interesting that the chancellor admits that the students aren't learning in the classroom. Why shouldn't he let them smoke, drink beer, play cards, and cuss? At least the system gets the "rears in the chairs" money, if they're in the building not learning.

So now that there are no longer any consequences whatsoever to acting out in class and disrupting classes, how would a rational being expect teachers to be able to (1) maintain discipline in a class or (2) get through any lessons or reviews for exams? The students have just gotten the greenlight "wink-wink" from that pathetic rubberstamper Wolcott--whose credentials for the job include a few months of teaching kindergarten! Well, I guess that beats the previous joke of a Chancellor, Cathy Black--who had none whatsoever.

But that won't stop Bloombutt from holding teachers to the same or even higher standards for the fake grades everyone has to turn in. They will have lousy classroom observation reports because the students will be acting out, and lousy grade stats because no one listened in the first place and no one will have spent even 1 minute studying for tests. Why should they? The teachers are forced to pass students who don't do any work or be harassed until they do with threats of disciplinary action and/or firing.

Nice going, Bloombutt. A great case in point of why politicians should keep their hands out of education.

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