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Deputy Chancellor White says these are the very students who could benefit from small schools. “Very often where schools are so large, it’s true that students don’t get the kind of support that is fostered by schools that are smaller, where teams of teachers, all of whom know each other, all of whom know who has which student, can really organize around the specific needs of students. And that’s in part why our new small schools that have been started under this administration have a 75 percent graduation rate.”

Based on the comment above, I can only say that within the next four years this city administration will be determined to wipe out as many large schools as possible. The closing of the large schools now will only have a ripple effect on the neighboring large or medium size schools. It is only a matter of time before until we say that the only large schools left are Bronx Science, Stuyvesant, and Brooklyn Tech!

You ever stop and think that the reason that these school poor graduation rate is you guys fault. I know that some students are reponsible for not graduating on time but explain how they are suppose to learn, when at Jamaica High School there are a hole lot of spanish speaking kids in a global class together and half of the period the teacher has to be translating the work in english. You tell me how are they suppose to pass their regents ah they don’t then the have to repeat that class the next semester and the semester after that the have to take the class that they did not take. Let me break it down they will always be a class behind and the way I see it you people are only concern about the money these small school give you.