To Curb Violence in School, Let Teachers Discipline Kids

The stabbing in a Bronx school serves to remind all New Yorkers of the failure of Chancellor Carmen Fariña and principals to enforce discipline in city high schools (“Murder in the classroom,” Sept. 28).

Principals have the discretion to install metal detectors; all schools should have them in 2017.

Why is there no accountability? Why are metal detectors optional?

Principals who reap lucrative tax-free pensions must be held accountable for student safety and safeguard it by installing metal detectors, hiring good guidance counselors and instituting a disciplinary code with teeth. Our kids deserve no less.

Joseph Campbell Port Washington

The fatal stabbing of a Bronx high-school student is a tragedy, but am I surprised? No.

For years I have advocated for better disci- pline in our schools.

Ask any teacher and they’ll tell you lack of discipline is the major problem. Mayor de Blasio and Fariña have both turned a deaf ear to the problem.

Until city schools take a no-nonsense approach to discipline, we’ll continue to see abysmal results. Set up rigid disciplinary procedures and then we may talk about other educational issues. Ed Greenspan Brooklyn

The liberal answer to this tragedy is placing metal detectors in schools.

How about bringing decorum back to classrooms and letting teachers deal with unruly students and bullies? John Van Acken Bellerose

A bullied teenager in The Bronx allegedly lashed out at his classmates who harassed him, killing one with a knife.

Abel Cedeno is said to have killed Mathew McCree and wounded Ariane LaBoy.

Parents send their children to school and expect them to be safe.

More must be done to protect our youth in school. Teachers and parents must be the first responders in cases of a young person being bullied. Frederick Bedell Glen Oaks Village