Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: School Violence

Episode Date: September 6, 2024

Bill takes a look at violence in New York's schools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A school lives in, and did you know there about a one million urchins in New York City public schools? Not quite, but approaching one million. You imagine that? So there's a lot of violence in the schools. And when you have violence in any school, you can't learn. Kids can't learn because they're afraid. So let me back it up, all right? And these are stats printed in the New York Post.

Again, you've got to give the post props for covering these stories. So in the 23-24 school year, the New York City Public Schools confiscated 3,700 dangerous instruments, that's box cutters, pepper spray, and 278 weapons, those knives, brass knuckles, and guns. or you add it up and we're talking about 4,000 this is confiscation by the authorities in the school weapons that could kill people all right now the school district said well it's dropping a little bit okay but still you know and incidents violent incidents 23 24 about 8000 and not all of them are reported by the way So you have a violence problem in New York City, public schools.

Now, it depends on the school. Everybody knows that. But the Democratic Party and the teachers' unions don't want charter schools where your students are more protected there. They don't want competition with private schools, Catholic schools. Now, I did not send my children to public school. And the reason I did not do that was not because of violence. because on Long Island, where I live, the schools are good. They're under control, and they're highly ranked.

But once the child leaves the building, there is no supervision by the public schools in Nashville County. None. And I objected to that, because if you're on campus, playing a sport, or you're just hanging around or whatever, and somebody punches you in the mouth, the school's got to deal with that. But oftentimes it does. So I send my kids to Catholic school, where it was much safer, in my opinion.

Security was safer. And in Catholic school, if you're bullied on the Internet, for example, by another student in the Catholic school, that student can be expelled. In public school, that doesn't happen. You can be bullied all day long, but as long as not so. school grounds, school doesn't do anything about it. Now, I'm a former high school teacher, some of you know that, and I was tough. I like to say I was the original Mr. Cotter with the sweat dogs, but I taught in a ghetto, Opa Laca, Florida, north of Miami. It was a tough,

tough neighborhood. My school was working class, all right? And it was diversity like crazy. About 50% Cuban, about 30% white, Anglo, and about 20% black. And the kids got along, by and large, but most of these children were unmotivated. That means their parents were not educated well. They didn't have books in the house. Education wasn't a priority for them. And I tried to turn as many lives around as I could, and I succeeded. Even to this day, I have former students keep in touch with me.

And I tried my hardest to engage the students. I taught history in English in a fun way to make learning fun. And that's how I came up with the formula for my books, the killing books and now confronting the presidents. It's fun to read the books, but you learn a lot. I hone that in the classroom. But I got to tell you, there was some violence when I was teaching in the school. I remember one dance where it was crashed by these kids, and it was a brawl. It was a fist fight.

And I had three of them coming at me, and I decked two of them. The other guy ran away, but, you know, I got my shirt ripped and everything. I mean, it was unpleasant. But in the school itself, we contained it. But if you have violence and weapons and fear in school, students cannot learn. So New York schools, you got to be tougher. Any violent kid expelled, suspended, or sent to a special school. Can't keep them in the mainstream.