Staten Island Officials Blast Cuts to School Safety Agents as NYC Migrant Spending Soars; Parents Rip into Eric Adams After Mayor Says They Might Have to Volunteer to Protect NYC Schools After New Safety Agents Cut: ‘Not my job!’

Staten Island officials blast cuts to school safety agents as NYC migrant spending soars:

Staten Island elected officials blasted Mayor Eric Adams’ administration’s decision to cancel a new class of 250 school safety agents, complaining that the massive spending on the migrant crisis is now undermining services to the city’s citizenry.

The borough’s leaders urged City Hall and the NYPD to reinstate the trained class of school safety agents to address youth violence and concerns about terrorism while the Hamas-Israel war rages in the Middle East.

“There’s nothing more important than the safety of our children. And this is part of a dangerous trend that the mayor has been setting for this city. We are seeing a reduction in the NYPD overall. We’re seeing less cops on the street. Less detectives being able to solve crimes to put people behind bars. And now we’re seeing 25% less safety agents than there were pre COVID pandemic,” Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis said during a press conference outside IS 2 Monday.

She noted that serious felony crimes in public schools jumped 16% and many of the violent incidents take place around dismissal right outside the school where safety agents patrol.

Malliotakis said it defied common sense that the mayor is cutting services and has imposed a hiring freeze while abiding by the “ridiculous” right to shelter policy for new arrivals “that is costing the city billions of dollars.”

Borough President Vito Fossella said it was a case of “I Told You So”, noting he and other island officials had said months ago that the cost to shelter and care for tens of thousands of migrants was unsustainable. —>READ MORE HERE

Parents rip into Eric Adams after mayor says they might have to volunteer to protect NYC schools after new safety agents cut: ‘Not my job!’:

Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday that parents might have to volunteer to keep Big Apple schools safe after hundreds of newly trained safety agents were cut — but the idea was quickly ripped by some parents who raged, “It’s not my job.”

“We’re going to be leaning into parents and parent groups to do some volunteerism,” Hizzoner said when asked about the new class of 250 school safety agents that were recently axed as the cost of the migrant crisis continues to cripple the city.

“We’re going to get to our crisis management team,” he continued during a weekly City Hall press conference. “We are going to be straining at a very high level to get this done correctly.”

But parents quickly scoffed at the idea, with several telling The Post they shouldn’t have to take on the responsibility of protecting their kids at school.

“It’s not my job or any parent’s job to have to patrol the school, that’s not why I’m sending my child to a school,” Sarah Lewis, 42, said as she waited for her sixth grade daughter at the Great Oaks Charter School in West Village.

“This whole situation is ridiculous,” another parent, whose child is in the seventh grade, chimed in. “Charter and public schools are already in need for more funding and now with this…turning to parents for help in doing their own jobs!”

“I usually don’t even have the time to pick up my kid,” one parent sitting outside the school said. “Now they want us to come in and act as what, security guards?” —>READ MORE HERE

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