7 children died in abusive NYC homes because progressives say its racist to save them
Who wants to work for the Administration for Children’s Services? Almost no one, apparently.According to The Post’s reporting this week, the agency is struggling to retain employees, with almost 30% of the agency’s staff having less than a year on the job.This is hardly surprising.Dominated by a progressive ideology that leaves children in unsafe homes and a leadership that is withholding information about what’s going wrong from the public, ACS is caught in a cycle of failure.And the more than half dozen abused and neglected kids who have died under the agency’s supervision are only the tip of the iceberg.Working for a child protection agency has never been an easy job.
Frontline caseworkers see awful things — children who have been severely beaten, burned, raped and starved.Think about 4-year-old Jahmeik Modlin starving to death in a home full of food, but with a refrigerator turned to face the wall so that he and his three siblings could not access it.Or 6-year-old Jalayah Eason Branch, whose mother beat her while she hung from her wrists in a closet.Child protective specialists — as they’re officially called — come into contact with some of the worst aspects of human nature.They stare evil in the face and don’t look away.But they do the job for the same reasons as police officers, firefighters and EMS — because they want to help.
They want to rescue children from these intolerable situations.Unfortunately, that idea has become passé in the era of woke ideology.The so-called “savior mentality” is now considered by activists and leaders in the field to be a racist, colonialist construct that has resulted in black children in particular being unnecessarily separated from their families at disproportionately high rates.ACS even commissioned its own unscientific survey called “Racial Equity Participatory Action Research and System Audit” — which was featured on the front page of The New York Times and public radio — and which fou...