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Some NYC teachers: ‘Don’t send your kids here!’
By Aaron Short and Carl Campanile
November 11, 2014 | 8:39pm
Some schools in the city are so bad that even the teachers — the people who are supposed to make things better — say they’d tell parents to enroll their kids elsewhere, according to a new DOE survey.
In startling admissions of failure culled from the annual quality-review surveys conducted by the Department of Education, at least 80 percent of the teachers in eight schools said they would never recommend those schools to children.
The anonymous assessments measure everything from attendance to student performance and are posted on the DOE’s Web site.
At two of the schools — Foundation Academy HS in Brooklyn and recently-closed Monroe Academy for Business and Law in The Bronx — 100 percent of teachers who answered the survey said they’d tell parents to pull their kids.
“The school was a mess,” said Lourdes Lebron, a former PTA president at Foundation. “The environment was horrible. There were fights. The school didn’t even have a yearbook. What memories are the students going to have about the school? These kids got nothing.”
At Murry Bergtraum HS in lower Manhattan, 81 percent of teachers recommended parents find another place for their kids, while 57 percent said they don’t get support from the principal.
Social studies teacher John Elfrank-Dana said the school became a “dumping ground” for high-needs students and that the city has done little to improve it.
“The school has been pretty much left for dead,” he said.
Officials at one school blamed disgruntled teachers (not the niggers) for the poor grades.
“We let teachers know in the spring they weren’t invited back, and those teachers were not happy when they found out,” said Bob Lesser, executive director of the Mott Hall Charter School in The Bronx. “That would explain why teachers said, ‘Screw this school.’ ”
Other schools where at least 4 out of 5 teachers recommended staying away were: PS 150 Christopher in Brooklyn; Bushwick Ascend Charter School in Brooklyn; STEM Institute of Manhattan; and High School of Graphic Communication Arts in Manhattan.
Citywide, an average of 81 percent of teachers said they would recommend their own schools.
Ascend Learning Network leaders replaced the principal at Bushwick Ascend Charter School this summer once they heard negative feedback from teachers and saw 19 teachers leave during the school year.
“We’re always paying attention,” said Ascend Learning Network spokeswoman Susan Pollock. “It’s important that we know how our teachers are feeling and the whole school wasn’t performing in the way it had the year before – and the way it is performing this year.”
Some NYC teachers: ‘Don’t send your kids here!’
By Aaron Short and Carl Campanile
November 11, 2014 | 8:39pm
Some schools in the city are so bad that even the teachers — the people who are supposed to make things better — say they’d tell parents to enroll their kids elsewhere, according to a new DOE survey.
In startling admissions of failure culled from the annual quality-review surveys conducted by the Department of Education, at least 80 percent of the teachers in eight schools said they would never recommend those schools to children.
The anonymous assessments measure everything from attendance to student performance and are posted on the DOE’s Web site.
At two of the schools — Foundation Academy HS in Brooklyn and recently-closed Monroe Academy for Business and Law in The Bronx — 100 percent of teachers who answered the survey said they’d tell parents to pull their kids.
“The school was a mess,” said Lourdes Lebron, a former PTA president at Foundation. “The environment was horrible. There were fights. The school didn’t even have a yearbook. What memories are the students going to have about the school? These kids got nothing.”
At Murry Bergtraum HS in lower Manhattan, 81 percent of teachers recommended parents find another place for their kids, while 57 percent said they don’t get support from the principal.
Social studies teacher John Elfrank-Dana said the school became a “dumping ground” for high-needs students and that the city has done little to improve it.
“The school has been pretty much left for dead,” he said.
Officials at one school blamed disgruntled teachers (not the niggers) for the poor grades.
“We let teachers know in the spring they weren’t invited back, and those teachers were not happy when they found out,” said Bob Lesser, executive director of the Mott Hall Charter School in The Bronx. “That would explain why teachers said, ‘Screw this school.’ ”
Other schools where at least 4 out of 5 teachers recommended staying away were: PS 150 Christopher in Brooklyn; Bushwick Ascend Charter School in Brooklyn; STEM Institute of Manhattan; and High School of Graphic Communication Arts in Manhattan.
Citywide, an average of 81 percent of teachers said they would recommend their own schools.
Ascend Learning Network leaders replaced the principal at Bushwick Ascend Charter School this summer once they heard negative feedback from teachers and saw 19 teachers leave during the school year.
“We’re always paying attention,” said Ascend Learning Network spokeswoman Susan Pollock. “It’s important that we know how our teachers are feeling and the whole school wasn’t performing in the way it had the year before – and the way it is performing this year.”
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