wtf of the day: small skool district blows BIG bucks on crisis response viper

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70k people, one high skool. wtf?? why do this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Rochelle,_New_York

The city is served by the City School District of New Rochelle, which operates a public high school, two junior high schools and ten elementary schools. On seven separate occasions, the City's schools have received the prestigious Blue Ribbon Award from the U.S. Department of Education. New Rochelle High School is one of the most diverse high schools in the country; the student body represents over 60 different countries from around the world.

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http://www.newrochelletalk.com/content/new-rochelle-mayor-hires-anthony-weiner-pr-guru-run-school-district-crisis-response

New Rochelle Mayor Hires Anthony Weiner PR Guru to Run School District Crisis Response

NEW ROCHELLE, NY -- The City of New Rochelle will pay $20,000 a month for a prominent Democratic public relations firm to provide “crisis management” services to the New Rochelle Board of Education.

In a further sign that the Mayor, having hand-picked school board members for years, has taken effective control of the school system, Noam Bramson has "hired" Risa Heller, a Democratic political operative with close ties to Anthony Weiner. She has kept a "Hillary" pillow on her office couch.

Some have questioned why the City government is hiring high-priced Democratic consultants to run PR for the School District which has its own PR firm

Heller got her start working on Capitol Hill for Rep. Jane Harman and Sen. Chuck Schumer. She worked for New York State Governor David Patterson. She also worked for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.

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New York Jews, the chutzpah oy vey....

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In a 2015 interview, Heller offered "Six Tips" for dealing with a crisis.

- Be prepared

- Be honesty is the best policy
- Framing is essential
- Silence screams the truth
- Speed is the key to containment
- Respond to criticism



I see the didn't have her manage the press release.

Read the pdf (http://www.newrochelletalk.com/files/hellercontract.pdf) of the contract. The contract is an email not an attachment to an email and the entire thing reads like a self back patting.
The contract also includes "reasonable expenses".

Guessing the mayor is looking for some shit to go down.

[cheka.]

i thought this little tidbit might play a role too: "the student body represents over 60 different countries from around the world"

.....schools have received the prestigious Blue Ribbon Award from the U.S. Department of Education

how tf did 60 countries end up in that town of 70k people? what have they done, what are they going to do.....that requires wiener-level protection?

[cheka.]

there was a youtube video of this event, yt gassed it. photos show negroes attacking whites. blue ribbon award indeed {--->)

http://www.newrochelletalk.com/content/massive-melee-breaks-out-new-rochelle-high-school-possibly-gang-related

Massive Melee Breaks Out at New Rochelle High School, Possibly Gang-Related

Reports from an area wire service had reported that knives were found during a search while the school was in lockdown and that one student suffered a laceration due to an attempted stabbing but reports from Breaking News Network were knocked down by school and police officials speaking off the record.

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more blue ribbon award, 60 countries....hide the gangs of vibrants' violence

http://www.newrochelletalk.com/content/city-new-rochelle-pressured-news12-stop-reporting-gang-activity-new-rochelle

City of New Rochelle Pressured News12 to Stop Reporting on Gang Activity in New Rochelle

NEW ROCHELLE, NY -- New Rochelle Police Commissioner Patrick Carroll, in an exclusive interview with Talk of the Sound last month, described a meeting with News 12 several years ago in which City officials pressured the Cablevision news outlet to discontinue reporting on alleged gang violence in New Rochelle.

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http://westchester.news12.com/story/34904792/fear-of-another-gang-shooting-grips-new-rochelle-hs

In the wake of the recent gang shooting that plagued New Rochelle the past few weeks, police did not want to take any chances at the high school. One student says the rumor was that gang members from Mount Vernon were going to shoot up the school. The rumors turned out to be just that, rumors. However, many students were shaken up. School officials permitted students who were frightened by the rumors to go home earlier.

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64 blue ribbon award winners arrested for heroin dealing

http://www.newrochelletalk.com/files/Street_Sweeper_3.jpg

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in response the the soaring gang crimes from the blue ribbon community of vibrants, they uncork this:

https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/new-rochelle/2017/09/14/new-rochelle-launches-immigrant-advocacy-committee/665751001/

New Rochelle launches immigrant advocacy committee

NEW ROCHELLE - The city has formed an Advisory Committee on Immigrant Affairs, Mayor Noam Bramson announced Thursday.

The nonpartisan ACIA, containing 12 members from a cross-section of backgrounds, will work with Bramson and other city officials on matters pertaining to the city's immigrant communities, according to a news release.

"Immigrants have contributed immeasurably to the strength, vitality, and character of our city, but have often been under-represented in civic decision-making," Bramson said in a statement. "Especially at a time of heightened sensitivity to the issues surrounding immigration, I look forward to drawing upon the experience and perspective of the ACIA."

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white girl stalked and attacked by gang of niggers, stabbed to death. this might be why the blue ribbon skook hired weiner associate

https://nypost.com/2018/01/30/fatal-high-school-stabbing-leaves-westchester-enclave-shaken-to-its-core/

Fatal high school stabbing leaves Westchester enclave shaken to its core

In the final moments of her life, 16-year-old Valaree Schwab was just trying to get back her house keys.

The New Rochelle High School junior had slipped out for lunch at around noon on Jan. 10 despite a policy against leaving campus at the award-winning school.

She was soon knocked to the ground and robbed at a nearby McDonald’s by a gang of school bullies. Then her teenage tormentors — who harassed her on a daily basis about her tattoos, love for the band Nirvana and affinity for social activism — proceeded to stalk her for the next hour.

They followed her into a Subway sandwich shop and then a Dunkin’ Donuts — where she would spend her last conscious seconds gasping for air, clutching the hand of a young cashier as blood poured from two stab wounds to her heart and lungs.

“She didn’t even know she was stabbed,” the worker recalled to The Post.

“She was screaming, saying that somebody stole her keys . . . The next thing you know, you see a commotion, and then everybody’s gone, and then [she was] just standing by herself, bleeding.”

The green-eyed teen flatlined once in the ambulance, again at the hospital and a final time at around 4 p.m., just after her school’s eighth period would have ended.

“She was bullied, stalked, assaulted, robbed and ultimately stabbed and murdered by her own classmates,” said Valaree’s aunt, Monica Furrelle Schwab.

“There aren’t too many words to express how we feel.”

Over the next eight days, two more New Rochelle High students were assaulted in another possible bullying case.
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Manhunt for 15-year-old after school stabbing
Manhunt for 15-year-old after school stabbing

Parents, teachers and students in the well-off, leafy Westchester County enclave appeared baffled over how the spate of violence could have happened in their *typically peaceful town, where the most they usually had to worry about was the occasional schoolyard scuffle.

Pizzeria owner Michael Napolitano, 45, whose shop was the scene of the second violent incident, said that in the two and a half decades that he has owned local businesses, he has never seen anything like it.

“It’s a good community, it’s a good school,’’ Napolitano said of New Rochelle High, whose grads include “60 Minutes’’ founder Don Hewitt, TV journalist Andrea Mitchell and “Shaft’’ movie star Richard Roundtree.

“Great kids come out of [the school]. It’s sad. It’s gotta get better.”

Behavioral experts aren’t sure how fast change can come.

“It’s everywhere — it’s everywhere,” Andrea Altshuler, a clinical social worker specializing in adolescents, said of bullying.

“I think that growing up now is so different than anything we experienced,’’ she told The Post. “There are so many more different avenues for bullying than there ever has been in history.

“Kids getting exposed to such a windfall of information that they don’t understand creates pent-up anxiety, pent-up anger, pent-up emotion that manifests itself in impulsive activity in adolescents.

“Maybe in some level that’s what’s happening at New Rochelle.”

Police say 16-year-old New Rochelle student Z’Inah Brown was among Valaree’s five or six tormentors that violent day — and allegedly killed the teen with a steak knife after she dared to fight back with pepper spray.

On a sunny Friday morning soon after Valaree’s death, Maryann Coyle, 54, and her daughter Melissa, 18, went to the Dunkin’ Donuts where Schwab was killed.

“We feel jittery even coming in here after that,” Maryann said, holding a bag of doughnuts and orange juice.

While a makeshift memorial to Valaree, replete with stuffed animals, drawings and handwritten notes, had been growing outside the North Avenue Dunkin’ Donuts, violence involving students at the school has only been intensifying.

A week after Valaree’s death, a 15-year-old student was followed to Gemelli’s Pizzeria, on North Avenue, and jumped by a group of older teens while trying to order a slice. Some said the *attack was a form of bullying.

Police said six or seven young men between the ages of 16 and 17 swarmed the victim — who admittedly had been violent when younger — throwing chairs and bottles at him. Police said the victim grabbed a few wine bottles to defend himself and chased the boys out of the restaurant.

“I ran up there, and it was just a mess,’’ shop owner Napolitano told The Post.

“A bunch of broken bottles of wine all over the place, blood, some tables were broken, food on the floor.”

The next day, the boy who was attacked came to school allegedly ready for battle.

At around 8:50 a.m., in a classroom right before third period, he plunged a weapon into the torso of a 16-year-old boy, leaving the stabbed teen with a punctured lung and lacerated spleen. The 15-year-old attacker then fled and is still at large.

The community, already fractured by Valaree’s death, reeled.
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A police officer outside New Rochelle High SchoolDavid McGlynn

Parents flocked to the campus. Teachers locked their doors. Frantic texts were exchanged. How could this happen again?

Erica Martinez, whose 15-year-old son, Gianni, was close friends with Valaree, said her boy was scared to say goodbye to her before heading off to school the morning after the third attack.

“He said, ‘Well, Mom, I hope I don’t get stabbed today,’ ” Martinez, 47, recalled.

Gianni told The Post that after the third violent incident, “Everybody was panicking.

“Like, who’s next? What’s going to happen?” he said.

Maryann Coyle, the mom at Dunkin’, said she takes students to the high school every morning as part of a car pool, and “I had one [student] this morning, she didn’t want to go to school today because she’s scared.’’
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Maryann Coyle outside Dunkin’ Donuts where high school student Valeree Schwab was stabbed to deathDavid McGlynn

The recent statistics on bullying are *sobering.

According to StopBullying.gov, nearly a quarter of US students in grades 6 through 12 have experienced bullying, and more than 70 percent have witnessed it firsthand in school.

Last September, Bronx teen Abel Cedeno allegedly plunged a switchblade into two students who had been throwing pencils at him and calling him names, killing one of them.

Cedeno, 18, later told The Post in a jailhouse interview that he “just snapped.” He said he had suffered from bullying since the sixth grade for being bisexual and dressing differently.

Dr. Jennifer Powell-Lunder, a Westchester therapist and adjunct professor at Pace University for graduate psychology students, said, “Why are responses so *violent these days?

“Some research has told us the threshold for shock has really gone down because kids today are so much more exposed to violence with social media and the internet.

“So they’re not understanding the severity of their responses and just how scary and violent they are.”

Altshuler, the Westchester *social worker, said some parents are little help.

“Adults now don’t understand what kids have to deal with because we didn’t experience it with all the technology and how kids can never turn off,’’ she said.

“There’s no time for kids to just . . . be home with their family alone, relax their brain and just be — because there’s always the pressure of social media.’’

Alana Millings, a therapist who works behind the Dunkin’ Donuts where Valaree was murdered, said, “I don’t know what it all means, but I do know that these are not isolated [bullying] incidents.

“Obviously, at the level of murdering someone, that doesn’t happen every day. But certainly the amount of bullying that goes on between students seems pretty unfortunately par for the course.’’

“People bully for so many different reasons,’’ she said. “But most the time it’s because they themselves have been bullied.

“So it’s really just an ongoing cycle of victims turning into bullies and then more victims turning into bullies.”

School officials in New Rochelle say they are taking steps to try to curb bullying in the wake of the recent violence.

For example, New Rochelle Schools Superintendent Brian Osborne said at a recent public meeting that the high school’s policy of “closed lunch’’ — meaning students can’t leave the building — needs to be better regulated.

Random bag searches also will be conducted for weapons, and an independent “top-to-bottom” audit on school safety and security across the district is underway, he said.

In addition, the district plans to create an app so students can anonymously report bullying or even brewing tensions between kids, in the hopes that adults can intervene before violence occurs.

Parents at the school say *reforms are badly needed.
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A memorial for Valeree Schwab outside the Dunkin’ Donuts where she was stabbedDavid McGlynn

José Colon, 43, said he had to pull his ninth-grade stepdaughter, Angelina Valentine, 14, out of school earlier this month because a group of girls said she was going to get jumped and beat up.

“Stuff like this shouldn’t be happening in school . . .we’re not *going to allow that to happen to her,’’ Colon told The Post.

Manuel Lopez, whose 11th-grade daughter was friends with Valaree, said his child has been getting bullied repeatedly since the sixth grade.

“It affects the whole family,’’ he said, his eyes starting to fill with tears.

“My daughter is not an aggressive person. I’m constantly checking on her. I text her, ‘Are you OK? Is everything alright? Are you on the bus? Are you coming over? How’s your day? Are you all right?’ ”

Lopez said he gave his daughter pepper spray in case anyone tries to hurt her.

But, “Look what happened to Valaree. Valaree tried to defend herself with pepper spray . . . and they nailed her,” he said.

“You know I cried for that child. It broke my heart . . . She was just somebody’s baby.”

Valaree’s aunt Monica Schwab said she hopes the school’s efforts aren’t too little, too late.

“[Valaree] had written statements saying she needed help, she hated to come [to school], she didn’t want to be here,” Monica said.

“Let’s make sure no one else has to experience that.”

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I read this entire thread and I don't see anything about a crisis response viper.

[cheka.]

as in 'den of vipers'

i think it qualifies

New Rochelle Mayor Hires Anthony Weiner PR Guru to Run School District Crisis Response

NEW ROCHELLE, NY -- The City of New Rochelle will pay $20,000 a month for a prominent Democratic public relations firm to provide “crisis management” services to the New Rochelle Board of Education.

In a further sign that the Mayor, having hand-picked school board members for years, has taken effective control of the school system, Noam Bramson has "hired" Risa Heller, a Democratic political operative with close ties to Anthony Weiner. She has kept a "Hillary" pillow on her office couch.

Some have questioned why the City government is hiring high-priced Democratic consultants to run PR for the School District which has its own PR firm

Heller got her start working on Capitol Hill for Rep. Jane Harman and Sen. Chuck Schumer. She worked for New York State Governor David Patterson. She also worked for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.