New York, NY – City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is calling for a state law requiring that prospective employees of private schools get fingerprinted.
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Quinn announced Thursday that she and City Councilman David Greenfield will introduce a resolution calling on state lawmakers to mandate that New York private schools follow the same fingerprinting rules as public schools.
The move follows a New York Times Magazine article that said Horace Mann had a series of teachers in the 1980s and early 1990s who sexually abused students. Quinn asked the Bronx district attorney to investigate the matter, and the police have created a hotline.
The elite school’s current administrators called the allegations “highly disturbing and absolutely abhorrent.” They say the school has terminated teachers for inappropriate conduct, including people named in the article.
Councilman Greenfield told VIN News: “This is common-sense legislation. For a very minimal cost we can ensure that school employees are not convicted criminals. This will allow parents to be secure in the knowledge that their children are as safe as possible at school. That’s why I have been advocating for mandatory fingerprinting for all school employees since taking office. I thank Speaker Christine Quinn for her support and leadership on this important child-safety legislation,” said Greenfield.
This law will include ALL YESHIVAS. Wonderful news, the tide is really turning against the molestors and their enablers!
More power to the Government, oh how we will regret it.
In my opinion, everything the government legislates is a seed that grows more problems the it resolves.
Government should allow private Schools to operate without any regulation, let them do the research, whoever doesnt want to send their kids there, shouldn’t.
Now they require fingerprints and tomorrow they’ll have mandatory training and then a curriculum.
The bill has been on Sheldon Silver’s desk for months. He refuses to act, despite Harvey Weisenberg’s support of the bill. Old Harvey talks a good story but doesn’t do much either
About time!!! Thank you!!
Of course it would take something outside the confines of the Jewish community to make this happen. Our children are obviously not worthy of the same protection. Shame on all the Jewish schools and their administrations for not doing this voluntarily before being forced into it.
Our kinder will be protected, finally and yet so many complain. Why? What are you all afraid of?
Interesting fact – Helene Weinstein from Brooklyn is also a co-sponsor of the bill. I wonder what’s going on here.
The private school I worked in 16 years ago, required fingerprints. NYC public schools require FBI fingerprints. Why any school worth their salt hasn’t required this already is beyond me. It defies logic as to why this hasn’t been done eons ago, voluntarily.
One legislative body, the City Council, governing 8 million people, “politely” suggesting to a superior legislative body, the State Legislature, governing 19 million people, that they stop dragging their feet for unknown reasons, and pass this common sense bill. Interesting.
I was finger printed when I obtain my citizenship, for a period many years ago I drove a cab and was fingerprinted and when I retired and worked for a company which had sensitive federal contract again I was fingerprinted and no harm and I have nothing to hide. However, some fine sodomy inclined teachers may be caught early. There is a posuk and in the “sayings of the fathers” also known as perek which says if not for the authorities, meaning the government one would eat other alive. Maybe argue with those who wrote it about the intrusion of the government.
Maybe if those in charge of schools would be less concerned what this would do to this “chushive yid ” if it becomes public, what will it do for shiduchim to his children and more concerned about the mental trauma of the subjects “big government” would not intrude
Can someone explain to me what the point is? In our tight community do you really think someone will be convicted in a crime, such as to make him unfit to work with children and the Yeshiva won’t know about it?
In Consul man Greenfeild words he says, “For a very minimal cost we can ensure that school employees are not convicted criminals” Dear consulman all our pre school staff members have recently ben told to fingerprint themselves, it costs $127 per employee, do u concider to be minimal? Go get a life, for a change to something for our community! Do something to ‘benifit’ our yeshivas!
Can someone explain to me what the point is? In our tight community do you really think someone will be convicted in a crime, such as to make him unfit to work with children and the Yeshiva won’t know about it?
In Consul man Greenfeild words he says, “For a very minimal cost we can ensure that school employees are not convicted criminals” Dear consulman all our pre school staff members have recently ben told to fingerprint themselves, it costs $127 per employee, do u concider to be minimal? Go get a life, for a change to something for our community! Do something to ‘benifit’ our yeshivas!
and for voting too. my cousin died 5 years ago and his recordsays he is still voting. i dont think so and told them