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I& #39;ve been thinking a lot about my HS experience and the NYC Council budget. I went to a HS that was extremely over-policed. We had "rolling metal detectors", many school safety agents (cops), and ONLY 1 college counselor for a school of over 600 seniors/1,500+ students.
Rolling metal detectors meant that often times we would show up to school on a regular week day and see 10 police vans parked outside the school and had to go through metal detectors that day (some NYC HS& #39;s have permanent metal detectors, others have rolling)
On rolling metal detectors days, our phones would be taken away & we would be talked to as if we had done something wrong, rather than just students trying to get to class. I saw friends of mine get stopped & frisked and even arrested.
That was my HS experience because I went to a school that was majority BIPOC/immigrant. We literally had to share textbooks between students because there wasn& #39;t enough. It was incredibly underfunded, our teachers were overworked while my friends in other schools got free laptops
I wouldn& #39;t change my experience because I learned so much and it informs the person I am today and my advocacy, but I cannot believe that students are still facing this reality (for context, I graduated HS in 2014). The City Council, Mayor & NYPD constantly fail our children
demanding to take cops out of schools is the bare minimum, they do not keep students safe. I have seen them escalate situations & harass students. BOE doesn& #39;t care about its BlPOC students and they make it apparent in every way #NYCBudgetJustice
