Comments on: DOE to close four more schools, including Jamaica HS http://gothamschools.org/2009/12/03/doe-to-close-four-more-schools-including-jamaica-hs/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: sharmin piancca http://gothamschools.org/2009/12/03/doe-to-close-four-more-schools-including-jamaica-hs/comment-page-1/#comment-260686 sharmin piancca Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:28:51 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=28555#comment-260686 justice has prevailed. And to that I say "IN YOUR FACE BLOOMBERG!" justice has prevailed. And to that I say “IN YOUR FACE BLOOMBERG!”

]]> By: Ellen Marshall http://gothamschools.org/2009/12/03/doe-to-close-four-more-schools-including-jamaica-hs/comment-page-1/#comment-250660 Ellen Marshall Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:10:25 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=28555#comment-250660 My name is Ellen Marshall, my graduation year was 1976. I am a proud product of the NYC school system. I have heard that there has been television news coverage about the protestation of the closing of JHS. I missed this coverage and would really appreciate it if someone who is following these events would post and update on what is going on. I would think if there was an organized barrage of post and electronic messages to Bloomberg and Klein they might get the message. Let's try to send a STRONG message that we DO NOT AND WILL NOT ACCEPT THIS HAPPENING. Ellen Marshall East Windsor, New Jersey email: Ellenmarshall@msn.com My name is Ellen Marshall, my graduation year was 1976. I am a proud product of the NYC school system. I have heard that there has been television news coverage about the protestation of the closing of JHS. I missed this coverage and would really appreciate it if someone who is following these events would post and update on what is going on. I would think if there was an organized barrage of post and electronic messages to Bloomberg and Klein they might get the message. Let’s try to send a STRONG message that we DO NOT AND WILL NOT ACCEPT THIS HAPPENING.

Ellen Marshall East Windsor, New Jersey email: Ellenmarshall@msn.com

]]> By: Afsan Quayyum http://gothamschools.org/2009/12/03/doe-to-close-four-more-schools-including-jamaica-hs/comment-page-1/#comment-250584 Afsan Quayyum Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:22:51 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=28555#comment-250584 I am a junior Gateway student at Jamaica High School in Queens. I will graduate with my class in June, 2011. I am an active peer tutor in Math and Science. In Jamaica High School, the Gateway Program is the advanced academic program which was launched in 1986. This program prepares us to excel on standardized exams such as Regents and to succeed in college. We take College Now classes and A.P. classes and receive college credits during our high school career. Gateway has approximately 97% rate of graduating. Graduates from the Gateway Program leave high school with more than the required number of credits. Gateway also prepares us for the Advanced Regents Diploma. Gateway has more experienced teachers. Students who have high academic achievements receive special awards every year. We also receive service credits by volunteering in the school library, peer tutoring or helping in the guidance office. Gateway students have above average attendance rate. Last year, the Gateway Program launched a peer tutoring program so that we can help the students succeed in their weaker subjects. As a result of this, more students who come to the tutoring sessions are passing their classes and their regents exams with improved grades. In the spring of this year, our school received a grade of “B” from the Annual Quality Review. In June 2009 our school was declared a landmark because of its history and its beautiful architecture. Not many schools in New York City have this admirable, beautiful edifice like ours. This decision of phasing out of Jamaica High School is concerning the students and parents in Jamaica High School. I was helped by the Gateway Program miraculously. I have been in Gateway Program since 10th Grade. By then my GPA was 93.3% and now in the junior year I have acquire a GPA of 98.90% and increasing. There are plenty of students in Gateway Program in Jamaica High School who have very high GPA and prominent number of credits and academic achievements and will proceed to great colleges successfully. DOE shouldn’t cut down this opportunity. I think closing Jamaica High School will not be a great idea, when we have these great programs to help the students. If Jamaica High School is phased out the efforts of the students to do better in their studies and improve their grades will be halted. Our lives will be devastated because there will be nothing for the school to continue in future. Gateway does remarkable help to the students in the Gateway Program and outside the Gateway Program. DOE should not take away this opportunity of learning from the students. This phasing out decision might have many negative consequences in our lives. I can not think how the Gateway Program will continue if the school is phased out. We might not have any opportunity to learn things in the classroom or outside the classroom. I am a junior Gateway student at Jamaica High School in Queens. I will graduate with my class in June, 2011. I am an active peer tutor in Math and Science. In Jamaica High School, the Gateway Program is the advanced academic program which was launched in 1986. This program prepares us to excel on standardized exams such as Regents and to succeed in college. We take College Now classes and A.P. classes and receive college credits during our high school career. Gateway has approximately 97% rate of graduating. Graduates from the Gateway Program leave high school with more than the required number of credits. Gateway also prepares us for the Advanced Regents Diploma. Gateway has more experienced teachers. Students who have high academic achievements receive special awards every year. We also receive service credits by volunteering in the school library, peer tutoring or helping in the guidance office. Gateway students have above average attendance rate. Last year, the Gateway Program launched a peer tutoring program so that we can help the students succeed in their weaker subjects. As a result of this, more students who come to the tutoring sessions are passing their classes and their regents exams with improved grades. In the spring of this year, our school received a grade of “B” from the Annual Quality Review. In June 2009 our school was declared a landmark because of its history and its beautiful architecture. Not many schools in New York City have this admirable, beautiful edifice like ours. This decision of phasing out of Jamaica High School is concerning the students and parents in Jamaica High School. I was helped by the Gateway Program miraculously. I have been in Gateway Program since 10th Grade. By then my GPA was 93.3% and now in the junior year I have acquire a GPA of 98.90% and increasing. There are plenty of students in Gateway Program in Jamaica High School who have very high GPA and prominent number of credits and academic achievements and will proceed to great colleges successfully. DOE shouldn’t cut down this opportunity.
I think closing Jamaica High School will not be a great idea, when we have these great programs to help the students. If Jamaica High School is phased out the efforts of the students to do better in their studies and improve their grades will be halted. Our lives will be devastated because there will be nothing for the school to continue in future. Gateway does remarkable help to the students in the Gateway Program and outside the Gateway Program. DOE should not take away this opportunity of learning from the students. This phasing out decision might have many negative consequences in our lives. I can not think how the Gateway Program will continue if the school is phased out. We might not have any opportunity to learn things in the classroom or outside the classroom.

]]> By: warner porsch http://gothamschools.org/2009/12/03/doe-to-close-four-more-schools-including-jamaica-hs/comment-page-1/#comment-249422 warner porsch Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:58:55 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=28555#comment-249422 To close this school is obscene. I graduated from this school many years ago when it was among the best in the city. Why is it failing now? The board of ed or powers that be can make this school anything they care to by expending the resources and attention needed to make the school a satisfactory performer. If the bureaucrats have success in closing this school what's next?  What will become of the actual school building and grounds? Where will the students be dispersed to? Is this building on the national register of historic places? If not it deserves to be. What a waste!  To close this school is obscene. I graduated from this school many years ago when it was among the best in the city. Why is it failing now?
The board of ed or powers that be can make this school anything they care to by expending the resources and attention needed to make the school a satisfactory performer.
If the bureaucrats have success in closing this school what’s next?  What will become of the actual school building and grounds? Where will the students be dispersed to? Is this building on the national register of historic places?
If not it deserves to be.
What a waste! 

]]> By: Zara Awan http://gothamschools.org/2009/12/03/doe-to-close-four-more-schools-including-jamaica-hs/comment-page-1/#comment-249025 Zara Awan Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:29:58 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=28555#comment-249025 Jamaica high school is one of the best schools in Queens. And it does not deserve to be closed down. In think that DOE does not care about the teachers and the students. All they want is our beautiful building and since it is a landmark building, DOE had their eyes on us for a while. They tried to close down the school two years ago and failed. We will not let them close Jamaica high school.If the DOE says that students will do better in other schools then i think they are totally wrong.It is because it depends on the students how they study. We were never given enough resources to improve. We can still proof that Jamaica high school is a much better school than they think. We will fight for our school. And we are not going down with a fight. Jamaica high school is one of the best schools in Queens. And it does not deserve to be closed down. In think that DOE does not care about the teachers and the students. All they want is our beautiful building and since it is a landmark building, DOE had their eyes on us for a while. They tried to close down the school two years ago and failed. We will not let them close Jamaica high school.If the DOE says that students will do better in other schools then i think they are totally wrong.It is because it depends on the students how they study. We were never given enough resources to improve. We can still proof that Jamaica high school is a much better school than they think. We will fight for our school. And we are not going down with a fight.

]]> By: TriLLer http://gothamschools.org/2009/12/03/doe-to-close-four-more-schools-including-jamaica-hs/comment-page-1/#comment-249022 TriLLer Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:17:43 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=28555#comment-249022 ok first of all lets face it Jamaica high was a great skool way back in the 80s but from the 90s till now it just got worse from kids bringing in weapons to drugs to even haveing sex in school, and so on i mean this school is not the only one there is way way more but if they want to close it there is a good and a bad, the good is that they are closing it down the bad is all the kids are going to go some where else in another school and do the same probably worst !. so ether way at the end of the day its not the parents or DOE its the damn students that is F ingg the whole system up ! ok first of all lets face it Jamaica high was a great skool way back in the 80s but from the 90s till now it just got worse from kids bringing in weapons to drugs to even haveing sex in school, and so on i mean this school is not the only one there is way way more but if they want to close it there is a good and a bad, the good is that they are closing it down the bad is all the kids are going to go some where else in another school and do the same probably worst !. so ether way at the end of the day its not the parents or DOE its the damn students that is F ingg the whole system up !

]]> By: Ellen Marshall http://gothamschools.org/2009/12/03/doe-to-close-four-more-schools-including-jamaica-hs/comment-page-1/#comment-248946 Ellen Marshall Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:51:16 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=28555#comment-248946 I am a former student of Jamaica HS. When I walked up the hill I felt like I rose up to the top of Mount Olympus. It was a great school with the United Nations enrolled. It has a long, prestigous history and deserves to be shaped up and saved. To let it fade into oblivion would be a travesty. Ellen Marshall Class of 1976 I am a former student of Jamaica HS. When I walked up the hill I felt like I rose up to the top of Mount Olympus. It was a great school with the United Nations enrolled. It has a long, prestigous history and deserves to be shaped up and saved. To let it fade into oblivion would be a travesty.

Ellen Marshall Class of 1976

]]> By: Michael Fiorillo http://gothamschools.org/2009/12/03/doe-to-close-four-more-schools-including-jamaica-hs/comment-page-1/#comment-248932 Michael Fiorillo Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:34:20 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=28555#comment-248932 KS, "Why not EMO's?" 1. The will inevitably, and soon, bring about multi-tiered, for-profit schooling. 2. the same folks who would profit from the EMO's are the one's who've starved urban public schools over decades, a point to refuse to acknowledge. 3. If you like HMOs, you'll love EMO's. KS,

“Why not EMO’s?”

1. The will inevitably, and soon, bring about multi-tiered, for-profit schooling.

2. the same folks who would profit from the EMO’s are the one’s who’ve starved urban public schools over decades, a point to refuse to acknowledge.

3. If you like HMOs, you’ll love EMO’s.

]]> By: Invictus http://gothamschools.org/2009/12/03/doe-to-close-four-more-schools-including-jamaica-hs/comment-page-1/#comment-248930 Invictus Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:29:35 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=28555#comment-248930 KitchenSink, the education of the future citizens of this city is not a BUSINESS experiment that can be tried and be outsourced anywhere else. Sure companies can move their sweatshops to the lowest paying place in the planet and moving them constantly around but we cannot afford to do mess around with education because we are not supposed to make students who are so unqualified and later find them in some garbage dump like the stuff those businesses produce. To all Jamaica High School students, cheers and I really hope that your turn out will be an angry and powerful one, a testament to the charade that Kleinberg is committing against all communities in NYC. KitchenSink, the education of the future citizens of this city is not a BUSINESS experiment that can be tried and be outsourced anywhere else.

Sure companies can move their sweatshops to the lowest paying place in the planet and moving them constantly around but we cannot afford to do mess around with education because we are not supposed to make students who are so unqualified and later find them in some garbage dump like the stuff those businesses produce.

To all Jamaica High School students, cheers and I really hope that your turn out will be an angry and powerful one, a testament to the charade that Kleinberg is committing against all communities in NYC.

]]> By: sawrajpal singh http://gothamschools.org/2009/12/03/doe-to-close-four-more-schools-including-jamaica-hs/comment-page-1/#comment-248928 sawrajpal singh Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:58:25 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=28555#comment-248928  Jamaica High School should not be closed down because this school has had an old prestige of traditions. The Gateway Program in Jamaica provides many courses that challenge a regular student. We as the students of Jamaica High School disagree with the closing of Jamaica High School. Also, Jamaica High School has many student with bright futures and I believe there are much worse schools in New York which need improvement. Our school has a bright future with many intellectual minds. Therefore, save Jamaica High School and it's future.  Jamaica High School should not be closed down because this school has had an old prestige of traditions. The Gateway Program in Jamaica provides many courses that challenge a regular student. We as the students of Jamaica High School disagree with the closing of Jamaica High School. Also, Jamaica High School has many student with bright futures and I believe there are much worse schools in New York which need improvement. Our school has a bright future with many intellectual minds. Therefore, save Jamaica High School and it’s future.

]]> By: SEEMA SINGH (JONAS) http://gothamschools.org/2009/12/03/doe-to-close-four-more-schools-including-jamaica-hs/comment-page-1/#comment-248927 SEEMA SINGH (JONAS) Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:57:33 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=28555#comment-248927 WE WILL HAVE AN AUDITORIUM FULL OF PARENTS, JUST WAIT AND SEE......... WE WILL HAVE AN AUDITORIUM FULL OF PARENTS, JUST WAIT AND SEE………

]]> By: SEEMA SINGH (JONAS) http://gothamschools.org/2009/12/03/doe-to-close-four-more-schools-including-jamaica-hs/comment-page-1/#comment-248925 SEEMA SINGH (JONAS) Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:56:33 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=28555#comment-248925 CLOSE THOSE OTHER SCHOOLS, WHO DON'T CARE --------WE DO, WE SHALL PREVAIL........... CLOSE THOSE OTHER SCHOOLS, WHO DON’T CARE ——–WE DO, WE SHALL PREVAIL………..

]]> By: SEEMA SINGH (JONAS) http://gothamschools.org/2009/12/03/doe-to-close-four-more-schools-including-jamaica-hs/comment-page-1/#comment-248924 SEEMA SINGH (JONAS) Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:55:06 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=28555#comment-248924 STOP RUINING MY HIGH SCHOOL EXPERIENCE, WE ARE WILLING TO FIGHT FOR OUR SCHOOL, DOESN'T THAT TELL YOU SOMETHING?!?????!!!!!??? STOP RUINING MY HIGH SCHOOL EXPERIENCE, WE ARE WILLING TO FIGHT FOR OUR SCHOOL, DOESN’T THAT TELL YOU SOMETHING?!?????!!!!!???

]]> By: SEEMA SINGH (JONAS) http://gothamschools.org/2009/12/03/doe-to-close-four-more-schools-including-jamaica-hs/comment-page-1/#comment-248922 SEEMA SINGH (JONAS) Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:49:46 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=28555#comment-248922 FIRST OF ALL, YOU DO NOT JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER, ALL OF THESE SO-CALLED FACTS ARE WHAT JAMAICA IS PORTRAYED TO BE, YOU WOULDNT REALLY HAVE ANY RIGHT TO SAY ANYTHING UNLESS YOU EXPERIENCE THIS SCHOOL FIRST HAND; OUR SCHOOL IS UNITED AND IF IT DIDN'T MEAN THIS MUCH TO US WOULD WE REALLY FIGHT FOR IT AS MUCH AS WE ARE................. THINK ABOUT IT...........I WANT YOU PEOPLE TO TAKE A MOMENT AND THINK ABOUT YOUR HIGH SCHOOL YEARS, ................................................................................THE TEACHERS, SENIOR ACTIVITIES, YOUR YEARBOOK..............................ALL OF THIS WILL BE NEGATIVELY AFFECTED IF YOU CLOSE OUR SCHOOL, .............THIS IS NOT THE TEACHERS FAULT!!!!!!!!!!THE STAFF, THE TEACHERS, AND STUDENTS--------WE HAVE THE BEST IN THE CITY;;;;;;;;IN NO WAY ARE WE GOING TO LET SOME OVERLY-CONFIDENT NYC MAYOR TAKE THIS BEAUTIFUL LANDMARK FROM US, WE HAVE THE BEST SCHOOL BUILDING, BECAUSE OF WHAT WE ARE LABELED AS .............SHALL WE NOT DESERVE A BUILDING AS EXTRAVAGANT AS THIS? SEE FOR YOURSELF...........THIS IS CHANGE WE DO NOT BELIEVE IN.............GIVE ME JAMAICA HS OR GIVE ME DEATH...........IN THE WORDS OF PATRICK HENRY FIRST OF ALL, YOU DO NOT JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER, ALL OF THESE SO-CALLED FACTS ARE WHAT JAMAICA IS PORTRAYED TO BE, YOU WOULDNT REALLY HAVE ANY RIGHT TO SAY ANYTHING UNLESS YOU EXPERIENCE THIS SCHOOL FIRST HAND; OUR SCHOOL IS UNITED AND IF IT DIDN’T MEAN THIS MUCH TO US WOULD WE REALLY FIGHT FOR IT AS MUCH AS WE ARE…………….. THINK ABOUT IT………..I WANT YOU PEOPLE TO TAKE A MOMENT AND THINK ABOUT YOUR HIGH SCHOOL YEARS, ……………………………………………………………………..THE TEACHERS, SENIOR ACTIVITIES, YOUR YEARBOOK…………………………ALL OF THIS WILL BE NEGATIVELY AFFECTED IF YOU CLOSE OUR SCHOOL, ………….THIS IS NOT THE TEACHERS FAULT!!!!!!!!!!THE STAFF, THE TEACHERS, AND STUDENTS——–WE HAVE THE BEST IN THE CITY;;;;;;;;IN NO WAY ARE WE GOING TO LET SOME OVERLY-CONFIDENT NYC MAYOR TAKE THIS BEAUTIFUL LANDMARK FROM US, WE HAVE THE BEST SCHOOL BUILDING, BECAUSE OF WHAT WE ARE LABELED AS ………….SHALL WE NOT DESERVE A BUILDING AS EXTRAVAGANT AS THIS? SEE FOR YOURSELF………..THIS IS CHANGE WE DO NOT BELIEVE IN………….GIVE ME JAMAICA HS OR GIVE ME DEATH………..IN THE WORDS OF PATRICK HENRY

]]> By: Galen Williams http://gothamschools.org/2009/12/03/doe-to-close-four-more-schools-including-jamaica-hs/comment-page-1/#comment-248920 Galen Williams Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:24:27 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=28555#comment-248920 Jamaica High School has gotten a lot better. We have to give credit to the Principal Acham for taking us off the dangerous schools list. We've gotten better over the years and we will get a lot more better as the years go on! Jamaica High School has gotten a lot better. We have to give credit to the Principal Acham for taking us off the dangerous schools list. We’ve gotten better over the years and we will get a lot more better as the years go on!

]]> By: KitchenSink http://gothamschools.org/2009/12/03/doe-to-close-four-more-schools-including-jamaica-hs/comment-page-1/#comment-248914 KitchenSink Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:27:27 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=28555#comment-248914 Just wondering, Michael - why not EMOs? They couldn't be worse than some of the "dropout factories" (not my words) we are dealing with now in our city. Just wondering, Michael – why not EMOs? They couldn’t be worse than some of the “dropout factories” (not my words) we are dealing with now in our city.

]]> By: Michael Fiorillo http://gothamschools.org/2009/12/03/doe-to-close-four-more-schools-including-jamaica-hs/comment-page-1/#comment-248860 Michael Fiorillo Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:34:50 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=28555#comment-248860 The closing of Jamaica High School is the clearest example yet of the attacks being waged by Bloomberg and Klein. Instead of providing support and additional resources,they and their consultants from McKinsey and the Kennedy School of Government are aggressively destroying community institutions that have been in place for many decades, replacing them with untried experiments whose shelf-life will probably be no more than a few years. They will continue to churn and reorganize the small schools that replace Jamaica and other schools, until they can finally put in place the for-profit EMOs (Educational Management Organizations) that are their ultimate goal for the system. This is not policy in the traditional sense, it's social vandalism. The closing of Jamaica High School is the clearest example yet of the attacks being waged by Bloomberg and Klein. Instead of providing support and additional resources,they and their consultants from McKinsey and the Kennedy School of Government are aggressively destroying community institutions that have been in place for many decades, replacing them with untried experiments whose shelf-life will probably be no more than a few years. They will continue to churn and reorganize the small schools that replace Jamaica and other schools, until they can finally put in place the for-profit EMOs (Educational Management Organizations) that are their ultimate goal for the system.

This is not policy in the traditional sense, it’s social vandalism.

]]> By: Jamaican http://gothamschools.org/2009/12/03/doe-to-close-four-more-schools-including-jamaica-hs/comment-page-1/#comment-248852 Jamaican Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:58:18 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=28555#comment-248852 Jamaica hs should be shut down. I agree with the statement that almost all the students felt invincible and its not the teachers faults. Wild students couldn't be controlled and there was nothing to be done about it. They kept on giving repeat offenders of violence against other students and even teachers 2nd and 3rd chances. So yes they did seem invincible and other students followed the same path. I mean ever kid wants to do whatever they want whenever they want. The school was really missing discipline (not refering to a rod.) the minute you commit acts of violence you should be put on parole ( more like a watch list an if you continue there will be no 2nd or 3rd chance). That school was a dump and getting teens to think about college and future education was unheard of until senior year which better school will start preparing students with PSAT as early as sophmore year a early junior year with SATs. I actually feel sorry for the community schools that will pick up the other students like Edison hillcrest and fransis Lewis. The students will never adust and only be bad example for their future peers Jamaica hs should be shut down. I agree with the statement that almost all the students felt invincible and its not the teachers faults. Wild students couldn’t be controlled and there was nothing to be done about it. They kept on giving repeat offenders of violence against other students and even teachers 2nd and 3rd chances. So yes they did seem invincible and other students followed the same path. I mean ever kid wants to do whatever they want whenever they want. The school was really missing discipline (not refering to a rod.) the minute you commit acts of violence you should be put on parole ( more like a watch list an if you continue there will be no 2nd or 3rd chance). That school was a dump and getting teens to think about college and future education was unheard of until senior year which better school will start preparing students with PSAT as early as sophmore year a early junior year with SATs.
I actually feel sorry for the community schools that will pick up the other students like Edison hillcrest and fransis Lewis. The students will never adust and only be bad example for their future peers

]]> By: Diane Hicks 98-00 student http://gothamschools.org/2009/12/03/doe-to-close-four-more-schools-including-jamaica-hs/comment-page-1/#comment-248824 Diane Hicks 98-00 student Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:42:27 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=28555#comment-248824 i was suppose to graduate in 2000........i found this website thru facebook.... and i am just so upset they are closing jamaica high.... i actually just walked through the front yardacross to get to the park.. yesterday after coming from my sister school edision..... as i walked by that i had so many memories of when i was attending that school.... i felt sort of weird like something was wrong ..... i seen he teachers , staff and security at the front doors as the late kids walk pass them to get inside the school..... i remembered having at school at 821 am and i never could make it on tome i would reach school at 903 am for attendence i remember my teacher mr. klugman he use to havea plastic glove on his hand cause i guess he was allergic to the chalk...... that class was so hard ... because i was placed in the wrong class ... it was my 10th grade yr which was my first yr because my jr high school whent up to grade. but any was i was in a math class with seniors.... and i didnt know what the heck was going on... it was three other kids from my jr high in that class and every time mr. klugman would say u should have learned this last yr ... us 4 would look t each other like we dont know this stuff.... but back to the walk i took across the front yard... i can remember one yr it was my bday and i was kicked out of school because a lady said it was in appropriate but i had my coat on all day so i always felt she could have handled that better. and i remember being picked up by truancy soon as i crack the door open on the lucnch room side ...... jamaica high was a very crowed school.... it was so many kids there i guess i felt invisible.... if was a very very different ent from jr high ..... which it should be but i guess i just wasnt ready then...... all my stories are not the best ... and i dont wish anyone to follow my foot steos either on the approach that i had for high school...... i didnt turn out so bad i obtained my ged 2 months after dropping out..... jamaica is the only high i ever attended and those are the memories i will have the rest of my life went it comes to school experience....... oh yeah mr eterno was my history teacher and i can truely say i enjoyed his class and that was one of the class i passed .... he is a great teacher...... and his eyes always matched his shirt if he wore a green shirt his eyes was green if he wore an blue shirt his eyes was blue....... dont shut jamaica down bloomberg ur a millionare u can do anything u put ur mind too!!!!!!!!!! i was suppose to graduate in 2000……..i found this website thru facebook…. and i am just so upset they are closing jamaica high…. i actually just walked through the front yardacross to get to the park.. yesterday after coming from my sister school edision….. as i walked by that i had so many memories of when i was attending that school…. i felt sort of weird like something was wrong ….. i seen he teachers , staff and security at the front doors as the late kids walk pass them to get inside the school….. i remembered having at school at 821 am and i never could make it on tome i would reach school at 903 am for attendence i remember my teacher mr. klugman he use to havea plastic glove on his hand cause i guess he was allergic to the chalk…… that class was so hard … because i was placed in the wrong class … it was my 10th grade yr which was my first yr because my jr high school whent up to grade. but any was i was in a math class with seniors…. and i didnt know what the heck was going on… it was three other kids from my jr high in that class and every time mr. klugman would say u should have learned this last yr … us 4 would look t each other like we dont know this stuff…. but back to the walk i took across the front yard… i can remember one yr it was my bday and i was kicked out of school because a lady said it was in appropriate but i had my coat on all day so i always felt she could have handled that better. and i remember being picked up by truancy soon as i crack the door open on the lucnch room side …… jamaica high was a very crowed school…. it was so many kids there i guess i felt invisible…. if was a very very different ent from jr high ….. which it should be but i guess i just wasnt ready then…… all my stories are not the best … and i dont wish anyone to follow my foot steos either on the approach that i had for high school…… i didnt turn out so bad i obtained my ged 2 months after dropping out….. jamaica is the only high i ever attended and those are the memories i will have the rest of my life went it comes to school experience……. oh yeah mr eterno was my history teacher and i can truely say i enjoyed his class and that was one of the class i passed …. he is a great teacher…… and his eyes always matched his shirt if he wore a green shirt his eyes was green if he wore an blue shirt his eyes was blue……. dont shut jamaica down bloomberg ur a millionare u can do anything u put ur mind too!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: liz http://gothamschools.org/2009/12/03/doe-to-close-four-more-schools-including-jamaica-hs/comment-page-1/#comment-248805 liz Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:54:32 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=28555#comment-248805 I dont think Jamaica High School should be closed , because the school is a gud school, from the teacher to the student they are good. Jamaica is a landmark and should be given a chance to improve, the students and teacher are sad because the school is going to be closed down...........................I hope D.O.E do something about it and not close down the school I dont think Jamaica High School should be closed , because the school is a gud school, from the teacher to the student they are good. Jamaica is a landmark and should be given a chance to improve, the students and teacher are sad because the school is going to be closed down………………………I hope D.O.E do something about it and not close down the school

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