Tyrone N. Butts
APE Reporter
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CRIME REIGNS AT 16 SCHOOLS
And you thought city high schools were tough.
Sixteen elementary and middle schools accounted for nearly 15 percent of serious crimes reported in the lower grades during the past school year, according to data obtained by The Post.
There were more major crimes, including rapes, robberies, assaults and grand larcenies, at some of those schools than at some of the city's most notorious high schools.
IS 211 in Brooklyn logged nine major crimes last year --compared to five at Far Rackaway HS in Queens, which was named an "impact school" last year because of its level o
f criminal activity.
Crimes classified as "minor," including drug possession, arson and petit larceny,
were also a problem at the 16 schools.
The 26 "minor" crimes at JHS 291 in Brooklyn outnumbered those at five impact high schools, including Brooklyn's troubled Franklin K. Lane HS.
Odette Johnson transferred her 13-year-old daughter out of JHS 113 in The Bronx because, "the kids were constantly fighting there," she said.
Drug use was blatant, she said, adding "they don't hide it."
Most of the problem lower-grade schools are in low-income neighborhoods. Their crime stats stand in contrast to those of the majority of elementary and middle schools.
Nearly half of all lower-grade schools logged fewer than three incidents across all crime categories --major, minor and noncriminal incidents.
No crime was report
ed at 119 lower-grade schools.
Security has been beefed up at three middle schools --JHS 142 in The Bronx and [url
=http://www.insideschools.org/fs/school_profile.php?id=665]JHS 296[/url]and MS 390 in Brooklyn. Similar measures are being considered for others.
"These schools are definitely on our radar screen," said Rose Albanese DePinto, an aide to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein.
The city designated 16 impact schools this year and flooded them with cops.
Altogether, the city's elementary, middle and junior high schools logged 519 serious crimes, 2,260 minor crimes and 3,879 noncriminal incidents, which include possession of marijuana, disorderly conduct and harassment.
Teachers union president Randi W
eingarten said student assaults on teachers were up slightly last year after two years of huge increases.
She added that more security is needed at some elementary and middle schools.
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The attempt to edjumakate negroes is both pointless and expensive.
T.N.B.
CRIME REIGNS AT 16 SCHOOLS
And you thought city high schools were tough.
Sixteen elementary and middle schools accounted for nearly 15 percent of serious crimes reported in the lower grades during the past school year, according to data obtained by The Post.
There were more major crimes, including rapes, robberies, assaults and grand larcenies, at some of those schools than at some of the city's most notorious high schools.
IS 211 in Brooklyn logged nine major crimes last year --compared to five at Far Rackaway HS in Queens, which was named an "impact school" last year because of its level o
f criminal activity.
Crimes classified as "minor," including drug possession, arson and petit larceny,
were also a problem at the 16 schools.
The 26 "minor" crimes at JHS 291 in Brooklyn outnumbered those at five impact high schools, including Brooklyn's troubled Franklin K. Lane HS.
Odette Johnson transferred her 13-year-old daughter out of JHS 113 in The Bronx because, "the kids were constantly fighting there," she said.
Drug use was blatant, she said, adding "they don't hide it."
Most of the problem lower-grade schools are in low-income neighborhoods. Their crime stats stand in contrast to those of the majority of elementary and middle schools.
Nearly half of all lower-grade schools logged fewer than three incidents across all crime categories --major, minor and noncriminal incidents.
No crime was report
ed at 119 lower-grade schools.
Security has been beefed up at three middle schools --JHS 142 in The Bronx and [url
=http://www.insideschools.org/fs/school_profile.php?id=665]JHS 296[/url]and MS 390 in Brooklyn. Similar measures are being considered for others.
"These schools are definitely on our radar screen," said Rose Albanese DePinto, an aide to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein.
The city designated 16 impact schools this year and flooded them with cops.
Altogether, the city's elementary, middle and junior high schools logged 519 serious crimes, 2,260 minor crimes and 3,879 noncriminal incidents, which include possession of marijuana, disorderly conduct and harassment.
Teachers union president Randi W
eingarten said student assaults on teachers were up slightly last year after two years of huge increases.
She added that more security is needed at some elementary and middle schools.
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The attempt to edjumakate negroes is both pointless and expensive.
T.N.B.