It’s an arms race inside the nation’s largest school system.
Student weapons busts have skyrocketed by 80 percent compared to pre-pandemic levels, according to startling new NYPD data.
From guns and knives to tasers and pepper spray, city kids are are packing a lot more than books this year.
A Bedford-Stuyvesant teacher told The Post that students she would never have suspected of carrying weapons are now doing so out of fear.
“Tasers and pepper spray are becoming about as common as pencils and erasers,” she said. “You have kids looking for trouble, and then you have those who want to protect themselves.”
A Queens principal said
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