I have been spending the last couple of months helping my daughter with her college applications. We spent one weekend recently at Columbia and Barnard. She’s completely enthralled with both. I opened the paper this morning and got physically ill. An eighteen year old Barnard freshman was beaten and killed probably over a cellphone. She could be my daughters twin and had most of the same interests - especially writing. I just can’t shake the image of that girl dying alone at the bottom of those cold dark stairs. DeBlasio made his usual pronouncements of an increased police presence and the well intentioned promise that this wouldn’t happen again.
How did it happen to begin with? Who are the individuals involved? What are their ages? Why were they (all?) armed with knives? If they are students in some NYCDOE high schools, were there warning signs? Are there metal detectors in their schools, or did these these individuals wear them in like a modern uniform? Were these individuals given consequences or free rein to do whatever they wanted? How did they do academically? How many times will society and innocents have to become victims to the indifference and benign neglect of public school systems, even after the student leaves the school system? In Florida, the families of Nicholas Cruz’ victims are suing the city, the school and all those who turned a blind eye to him. Time to start that in NYC.
G-d bless Tessa Majors and her family.
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