Brooklyn: I just heard a senator expounding on how schools are indoctrinating, failing and ruining students, secularly and religiously. As a former teacher, I want to inform this person that no parent should be looking to any school to prepare a student for heaven. That is the job of parents and religious leaders. Nowhere in the Good Book does it say that school teachers should do that. It emphatically states that fathers (parents) must bring up their children in the fear of the Lord, and he who loves his children will chasten them.
NYPD Chief of Department Jeff Maddrey made a serious, consequential error in 2021 when, then chief of community affairs, he swooped into the Brownsville precinct house and told police to let a former colleague go. Commissioner Keechant Sewell should discipline him. Rather than taking his lumps, Maddrey is fighting any rap on the knuckles and forcing an administrative trial. That sets a terrible example for the officers he leads and the city he serves.
NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell has served one of her highest-ranking employees, Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey, with disciplinary charges for abusing