Pathetic guidance shows the moral vacuum at state Education Department

In a belated Wednesday night , Chancellor Lester W. Young Jr., the state Board of Regents and New York Education Commissioner Betty Rosa, in “the wake of the crisis in Israel and Palestine,” offered guidance to schools regarding Hamas’ horrors … that didn’t even mention Hamas.

Instead, state Education Department leaders offered gobbledygook about “social-emotional supports,” “managing the trauma” and “helping students process their emotions.”

Assemblywomanไ Nily Rozic (D-Queens) called out the department, : “To be crystal clear; t✅hese are barbaric, cold blooded, mass murders carried out by terrorists. Hamas wants to wipe Jews off the map.”

She added: “But can’t even bring themselves to acknowledge♏ or condemn th𒈔at.”

The state Educatꦏion Department could have simply told schools to teach kids that this barbarism is evil.

Failing t🐷o name and to condemn Hamas for the atrocities inflicted on women, children, little babies and the elderly exposed the vacuum that passes for leadership of education in New York.

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Then again, these are professional education bureaucrats, selected under the Empire State’s bizarre laws by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie exclusively to keep the teachers’ unions happy.

What more can anyone expect?

Israel isn’t at war with Palestinians. It’s at war with Hamas, a terrorist group dedicated to the Jewish state’s destruction (because it’s Jewish) that occupies the Gaza Stri✨p and takes its orders from Iran.

Hamas terrorism brought on this “crisis.” Hamas terrorists commit꧙ted atrocities and broadcast them across social media.

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Thꦆe role New York educators should play is tru🅷th-tellers and conveyers of fact.

Israel is a democratic nation that “promotes inclusivity, toleꦇrance, and respect for all individuals, regardless of their beliefs” — the values the Regents and Education Department leaders claim to share.

Telling the truth — calling out Hamas for what it is — is where the department’s guidance should have started.