The incoming Schools Chancellor Dec. 13 defended School Safety Agents and proposed modernizing school security by installing invisible metal detectors in response to the alarming rise in weapons being discovered in school buildings.
David Banks also was critical of the push to remove Safety Agents from the schools, which hard-liners have said was necessary rather than following the current plan to shift jurisdiction over them from the Police Department to the Department of Education.
'Invaluable to Schools'
“I was a School Safety Agent when I started my career…I worked at Clara Barton High School in Brooklyn,” he told PIX 11. “If you speak to most school Teachers and Principals, they will tell you that school safety officers are invaluable and they’re every bit as much a part of the culture of our schools as the Teachers are.”
He said he “rejected” the idea from those demanding police-free schools that the Safety Agents, who are unarmed, were the equivalent of cops.
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