On November 27, David Banks, NYC Chancellor of the Department of Education (DOE), held a press conference. It was to address the riot, crime spree, and terrorism perpetrated by students at Hillcrest High School on November 20th.
At least 400 radicalized students between the ages of thirteen to seventeen held a pre-planned riot at the public high school in Jamaica, Queens. They hunted a Jewish teacher who was able to hide in a locked office. They uploaded the video onto TikTok. The mob of students waved “Palestinian” flags, marauded up and down hallways, vandalized school property, and held the school hostage.
This is not the Hillcrest community’s first rodeo. It has been plagued by violent students who seemingly fear no one and nothing. A week prior to the terrorism, a mob of students viciously pummeled at least one security officer (it’s unclear if anyone else was hurt as the Adams administration has tried to sweep these incidents under the rug). This criminal attack was uploaded onto TikTok, the braintrust for children between the ages of ten to eighteen.
These videos should haunt every parent and taxpayer. Hillcrest students resemble inmates at Rikers Island. Their language and actions are bone-chilling. The fear the hunted female Jewish teacher must have felt cannot be underplayed. On October 7th, we saw what Hamas terrorists did to the Jewish women and children. Now, we see at Hillcrest High School, teenagers standing in solidarity with those that sodomize women, and burn children alive. One would think acolytes of another Democrat movement, #MeToo, would pipe up.
Since both the pummeling of the security agent and attempted caliphate at Hillcrest, some arrests have been made. An eighteen year old was issued a desk appearance. The 15 and 16 year olds were issued juvenile reports.
However, no one has been expelled or fired. The DoE’s school discipline code is a joke. The parents and students know it. Since 2018, the number of suspensions handed out by principals and superintendents has plummeted, teachers and parents say classroom disorder has risen. This seems to be the plan.
As per a NY Post article, “No one gets suspended [and] principals are pressured ‘from above’ not to ‘take any punitive measures at all,’ leaving no accountability for any bad behavior. We have teachers getting kicked at, spit at, cursed at, things thrown at [them], and the kid is back the next day like nothing happened,” an educator told The Post.
Chancellor David Banks has let law-abiding citizens and taxpayers know, it’s back to business as usual. This means disregarding anti-American and antisemitic behavior. How? By continuing on with destructive “social justice” governance and DEI. The former makes certain meaningful punishments are verboten depending on the perpetrators. The latter gaslights the public by having them examine other people’s pain,

