Discipline first, then restoration

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Ronkonkoma, L.I.: What should be done about violence in schools? Today, New York City schools are teaching selfawareness and restorative practices to get students to understand and take responsibility for their actions. That is an excellent improvement, but it comes at the expense of any consequences. Discipline must come before restoration.

Students need to face consequences such as parent conferences, detention, suspension, denial of extra-curricular activities and arrest if necessary. With that should come the services that can teach them to behave properly and prevent them from repeating these offenses. They must be taught how to handle anger, and hopefully issues at home can be addressed.

I advise all parents to find out the policy of their child’s school and demand appropriate responses. They need to talk to their kids and ask them about violence in their school. I ask teachers to report all incidents and take proper action to be treated properly, with the respect they deserve. I call on all administrators to hold violent students accountable for their offenses and to think of the victims and provide “restorative practices” for them.

I just retired after teaching in the New York City schools for 28 years and the lack of discipline was the main reason why!

Gregg Freedner

Rank and file

Manalapan N.J..: I would like to say I wholeheartedly support college assistance for military kids (“Military kids and college fairness,” op-ed, Oct. 18). However, rather than seeking the stigma of an “affirmative action” type program, wouldn’t it be fairer for Congress to recognize their sacrifices with special scholarship support which would allow them to attend the schools of their choice? We are already familiar with how the Pentagon can misplace billions of dollars without accountability. Instead, here we have a real chance to invest in our future at a fraction of those “lost dollars.” It makes sense all around, that these kids, who sacrifice so much in order for their parents to serve, should get a special hand in completing college. Herb Paserman

Off-base Dems

Brooklyn: If Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff were the managers of the New York Yankees, they would now be yelling and screaming that the Astros colluded with Russian forces to steal the American League Championship Series.

Jose Hircsh

Sore losers

Shelton, Conn.: Only the Daily News would publish

the drivel spewed by Rick Wilson (“DEFDON 1:” op-ed, Oct. 20). Wilson is the consummate whining Bush Republican who still can’t forget Trump’s beat-down of Jeb in 2016. Raymond F. Hoye

F*#L that!

Brooklyn: We live in a time when we are bombarded with admonitions to keep our personal information safe. Now, certain citizens are insisting on getting access to NYPD files. These people have had their say. It’s time for them to back off. God knows they’ve been handsomely rewarded already. Enough from them!

Diane Hunt

Hot spot

Kent, N.Y.: I don’t get closing Rikers. If each borough had jails, they’d be clamoring to build a place like Rikers where the prisoners would be isolated from the public. But if this ridiculous idea is a done deal, then why not make Rikers Island a place to keep all the homeless? The buildings are already there. Keep the homeless off the street. Unless there’s a shady deal already in the works for that prime real estate. Rob Callen

The war on Halloween

Copperas Cove, Tex.: Voicer John Di Genio has good intentions. Unfortunately, he’s living in the past! Halloween is now way too commercialized. Sure, there are some who still enjoy the timehonored festivities associated with Halloween. But, Halloween has become the prelude to the Christmas holiday season. Go to any shopping center and you’ll see Christmas decorations being sold. Neighborhoods are now adorned with Halloween lights and blow-up Halloween figures. Sadly, when it comes to Halloween, we’ve come a long way — the wrong way — from the traditional festivities, such as bobbing for apples, ghost stories and trick-or-treating.

Annamaria Cucuzza-Cardilessi

Bad boss lady

Briarwood: Re “NYPD sgt vs. boss” (Oct 20): To Sgt. Harold Gates: If Deputy Inspector Tania Kinsella had been a man, would you have called him a “bully” and acted as badly as you did? Your behavior is pure sexism. What I want to know is why is the NYPD tolerating Gates’ inappropriate behavior towards a commanding officer?

Mary Elizabeth Ellis

Call out

Bronx: Moscow Mitch states that the House of Representatives did not go far in condemning Trump for what he did to the Kurds. My question is: Why doesn’t Moscow Mitch have the Senate write a more comprehensive condemnation of traitorous Trump? When is Trump going to be brought up on charges of aiding and abetting the murder of our allies, the Kurds? Juanita M. Johnson

Flip flop

Brooklyn: Has anyone noticed that the same people who were calling Obama a wuss and an appeaser for not enforcing his “Red Line” in Syria and who have praised Trump to the skies for waging an active war against ISIS are singing a different tune? Now they are calling the opponents of Trump’s appeasement of the Turks in their ethnic cleansing of our erstwhile Kurdish allies warmongers while Trump is being hailed as a great man of peace! This is hypocrisy of the highest order. Dennis Middlebrooks

Employee of the month

Freeport, L.I.: This morning I called to deal with my subscription which had not been delivered before. Today it was on the door as needed (to keep it from being lost). Your staff did good work and you should know this.

Noah J. Polak

Bernie bro

Staten Island: I’m wondering how the editorial board at the

GETTY IMAGES Daily News can walk around with their heads held high. They should be ashamed of themselves for their latest howling sob, ahem, editorial, “Prime gall” (Oct. 19). In a case of sour grapes over a failed attempt at corporate welfare for Amazon, the board has called a political rally for Bernie Sanders “gloating” and chosen to ignore his bravery and his policies. The News resembles Crain’s New York Business or a Wall Street newsletter.

Open your eyes

Lou Bardel

Little Egg Harbor, N.J.: While I admire the passion these environmental activists have for helping our climate, I’m amazed by how ignorant they are. Demanding that New York give up fossil fuels is just silly. The U.S. has done more to help the climate than any country in the world. We have steadily moved from coal to natural gas. Check out pictures of L.A.’s smog in the 70s or New York City’s waterways from 30 years ago. These activists need to get a passport and travel the world to find where the real damage to our climate is being done. Protesting in New York City is preaching to the choir.

William Cook