Friday, September 27, 2013
Schools still bursting at the seams
From CBS New York:
A teachers union survey found that nearly one in four New York City public school students – more than 230,000 kids – is in a crowded classroom.
UFT president Michael Mulgrew said Cardozo High School in Bayside, Queens tops the list with 385 overcrowded classes. In all, the survey found 6,313 overcrowded classes, 180 more than last year.
“What we are asking them, for once, before they leave office: do the right thing, reduce the class sizes right now, do not make hundreds of thousands of children wait all the way through next spring to reduce the class size,” Mulgrew said.
As CBS 2′s Andrea Grymes reported, some classes at Cardozo have a few extra students, while others have up to 15 more students than the cap.
“It’s terrible because there’s too many kids,” Cardozo High School senior Christina Frias told Grymes.
“They stand in the back of the room, they sit on the windowsill. We have kids literally standing in the doorway,” Cardozo teacher Dino Sferrazza told Grymes.
13 comments:
Well you can be sure that Honest Joe Crowely's kids have a seat - in Ole Virginny!
It's a DISGRACE!! Playgrounds have been turned into mobile classrooms. Where a handball court once stood, now 2 mobile trailers sit. Development and zoning has left the school behind. Let's add 1200 condo units, and not thing about the impact to the schools. There's no other word to describe this other than, STUPID! Community Boards never hear this argument, AND Never bring it up. Now kids are in a classroom with 30 kids. Making teaching a little less effective, where we should be making teaching as productive as we can, and giving kids some free space. But we dont have any free space. It is a JOKE! Pols have no interest in this. Why should they. If it was the students parents that were going to their fundraisers and not the developers then we'd be doing a lot better, but that's not the case.
This just makes the city skoo system resemble the future for most of these feral anchor beings.....which is prison.
Those who attend the skoo system are worthless vermin anyway.
Who cares?
This is a joke right?
Anonymous said:
"This just makes the city skoo system resemble the future for most of these feral anchor beings.....which is prison.
Those who attend the skoo system are worthless vermin anyway.
Who cares?
As a Cardozo alum this is close to home for me. I've been saying that our high schools in Northeast Queens are bursting at the seems for years. Those of us on the Education Committee of Community Board 11 have been telling this to the Department of Education for years.
It is just another failure of Emperor Bloomberg's education policy.
The way to fix the problem is to build a new High School in Northeast Queens and improve the high schools in other parts of Queens so that students don't need to travel across the borough to attend a good school.
Not only building new schools, but stop the over-development of Queens. Communities do not have the necessary infrastructure for all this growth. Create better zoning and stop over-development. This is what happens when a 1 or 2 family home is torn down to put up some shitty 3-4 story apartment that will contain about 20 families and will more than likely have illegal apartments as well.
Common Sense.
The schools aren't "Overcrowded". That's a myth perpetrated by the UFT to create jobs and bolster their membership. The UFT has been holding kids hostage for decades. It's time for that to stop.
The schools aren't "Overcrowded". That's a myth perpetrated by the UFT to create jobs and bolster their membership. The UFT has been holding kids hostage for decades. It's time for that to stop. WHAT KIND OF MORON ARE YOU???
Of course they are overcrowded. Kids no longer have to go to their local high school. Cardozo, Bayside and even Francis Lewis get kids from Jamaica, Richmond Hill, or anywhere else in the city. Why do you think every high school in bad neighborhoods fail? Any parent in those areas that gives half a damn about their kids applies to the schools in North east queens.
The problem with the schools is that children are not evenly distributed throughout the city. Tell me this.....why does francis lewis hs have so many Asian teenagers meanwhile flushing highschool has close to none? But who lives in flushing? Asians and Spanish! But who goes to flushing high school? Black teenagers and Spanish teenagers..... how do you figure that one? I don't see a lot of black people living in flushing! So, I think something is wrong with that picture!
Joe, the government is not putting up 3-4 story apartments...... the people who are moving into the neighborhoods illegally put 3-4 families in a two family house. Our department of buildings should be checking out these houses after their construction is done, but they don't do that. These people section off 2 family houses to turn it into 3-4 family houses! Why do you think so many of these ugly "mcmansions" are being built lately?
keep packing in the anchor children.
The way to fix the problem is to build a new High School in Northeast Queens and improve the high schools in other parts of Queens so that students don't need to travel across the borough to attend a good school.
No, the way to fix this problem is to ensure that if there are S number of single family houses or 2 family houses (in this case it would be N=S*2) with X number of kids, make sure that it limits only N*X students. So if there are 100 single family houses with 3 kids and 50 2-family houses with has 1 kid each, school should limit (100 * 3) + (50 * 2 * 1) = 500 students.
There are way too many people BORROWING addresses to be able to attend that cardozo. So the above should fix that problem..although it probably will not work since it's so theoretical and requires huge amount of organization.
So think of way to stop borrowing addresses.
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