THUGS RUN WILD IN TROUBLED HS

A rowdy, obscenity-spewing student was busted at Far Rockaway HS yesterday – just as schools chief Joel Klein and top City Hall, police and union officials were privately huddling only two floors below to try to figure out how to curb violence in the schools.

Meeting with Klein in the strategy session in a first-floor office were Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott, NYPD School Safety Chief Gerald Nelson, teachers-union boss Randi Weingarten and Ernie Logan, vice president of the Council of Supervisors and Administrators.

But two floors above them, a defiant 17-year-old ninth-grader refused to go to class and spewed profanities as he clashed with a school safety officer.

The unruly student, who refused to show his identification card to security officers, was arrested for disorderly conduct.

It took three officers to move the teen in a detention room to calm him down, sources said. School officials said he is expected to be suspended for five days.

Last week, 13 students from Far Rockaway were arrested after a series of fights and melees – the reason that top city school and safety officials were visiting the school.

Far Rockaway Principal Cheryll Jones said there are between “70 to 100” troublemakers in the school who make it more difficult for the 1,400 students who are eager to learn.

Some students said conditions in the school had deteriorated.

“It sucks. No one is learning. Too many kids are running around the building and fighting. Teachers and security don’t have control of the kids,” said 10th-grader Jolenna Favor.

Laheem Lee, a 16-year-old junior, said, “The security isn’t tight enough here.”

Kevin Brown, 17, added: “The kids are going crazy. There are too many people who hate each other.”

Sources said more than a dozen of the city’s high schools – many of which experienced huge increases in enrollment to accommodate students from areas where failing high schools were closed – have become more crowded and dangerous.

One of the hot spots is Sheepshead Bay HS in Brooklyn, whose enrollment swelled by 600 students this fall, from 3,300 to 3,900.

There have been 170 “occurrences” reported at Sheepshead Bay through Dec. 12, a huge jump over last year, said Robert Kornhiser, a veteran English teacher at the school.

All of the last school year, there were only 242 occurrences.

He said six teachers have been assaulted, a school aide was punched and sev- eral security officers have been attacked.

A student nearly lost his eye after a thug punched him in the eye with brass knuckles, Kornhiser said.

Kornhiser said the problems were endless.

“False [fire] alarms daily. Fights daily. Chaos in and around the cafeterias. Students banging on doors during class. Wanton vandalism,” he said. “No one makes this up. And my school is not considered a failing school.”

Last year, Sheepshead Bay sent grads to the Ivy League, won a football title and had successful debate and law teams.

“But the atmosphere is sapping and debilitating, if not downright poisonous” now, Kornhiser said.

At the behest of Mayor Bloomberg, Walcott, Klein and the NYPD are crafting a new plan to bolster school safety.

Klein said he wants more alternative sites for troublemakers who’ve been suspended, keeping them out of large schools.

Chief Nelson of the NYPD said everything is under review, including whether to provide school safety officers, who are currently unarmed, with weapons for self-defense.

DANGER ZONES

Manhattan:

* Washington Irving

* Over 160 incidents, including violent assaults and a confiscation of a gun

Brooklyn:

* South Shore

* Students roaming the halls, crowding problems

* Tilden

* Students in the halls, crowding problems

* Van Arsdale

* 14 students arrested the past few weeks

* Sheepshead Bay

* 6 assaults on teachers; student punched in eye with brass knuckles

* Lincoln

* Gang-related fights

Queens:

* Beach Channel

* Student fights and arrests

* Far Rockaway

* 14 students arrested over past week

* Campus Magnet

* Series of fires, arson

* Franklin K. Lane

* Students roam the halls

* Jamaica

* Star soccer goalie threatened and transfers to another school

* Springfield Gardens

* Groups of students in halls

* Van Buren

* Students in halls

Bronx:

* Columbus

* Teacher assaulted

* Evander Childs

* Students in halls, wearing gang paraphernalia

* Smith

* 3 assaults on staff

* Stevenson

* Students in halls

* Truman

* Students in halls

Sources: School staff and NYPD reports

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