Morrissey right to authorize cops to ticket in-school truants
3 comments March 11th, 2008
Good for Mayor Morrissey standing up to the imperial school bureaucrats — the School District Central Command Triumverate of Katz, Hoffman & Hernandez.
Incredibly, the school “leaders” believe that city cops shouldn’t issue truancy tickets to kids who are in school, but roaming the halls instead of going to class. No, they want the cops to wait until a fight breaks out, then stop it.
Morrissey, realizing logically that such “in-school truants” are the very ones who foment trouble, wants his cops to ticket the kids if they don’t go back to class.
There was good cooperation between Morrissey and former Superintendent Dennis Thompson. Both men made TV commercials together touting the importance of being in school. Both warned that the truancy ordinance would be enforced.
Then Thompson left abruptly. Now, truancy referals have dried up.
Where is the School Board on this one?
