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Yeah yall butchered crazy hair day …’10 went all out. Lol I am jk, but these kids dont go to class so why be all worked up on br use? Most kids would just go to the br to socialize, thats what afterschool and lunch is for. I use to hate it whem girls did that. Only about a few hundred kids use the br each period. One bathroom being opened is nothing new, it wasOpp like that since I was a sophomore. This lady seems leniet ( and unprofessional) compared to what Esmilla and Lauiser did to us. We went through uniforms…we sucked that up and kept moving. Of course we didnt agree with it, but no riot didnt occur. Br was probably only going to last a few periods, but we had to wear white shirts four months straight, with suspension if we didnt wear it.

This years a trip, first a bomb threat, now this?. What a knack this school has for falling down and breaking its f—ing face year after agonizing and annoying year. But seriously this shit needs fixing. Taking away my JAVA class(and other business classes)is so not fucking cool.

Yo did ya see that skinny man who works in the main office standing next to Ms. Taylor in the staircase? Ya were wrong ya could’ve hurt the good teachers today.

I can’t believe this is another executive super principal without common sense. Who locks bathroom doors? Where does one take a dump? I bet she was allowed to go to the bathroom.

Ps. The cruise was not approved by the DOE. Dr. Lewis was not against the cruise. She has not cancelled one senior activity. Be accurate if you want people to hear you.

I honestly think the fact that so MANY kids were angry is what really got it to this point with that many angry people all at once things get out of control. It wasn’t because of anyone’s background or upbringing its just human nature when surrounded by upset people to become upset yourself and to lose control a bit. It was unnecessary but I think they made their point and I feel that anyone who wasn’t there shouldn’t judge whether you agree or not. The new principal honestly doesn’t seem that bad at all to me but she really needs to learn the proper way to address students so that they feel comfortable and not insulted or embarrassed just because she’s trying to help the school doesn’t mean she can treat people however she wants.

Wow, this is the most sad comment board I have read on this site.  Looks a lot like the NY Post comment section.  What a sad commentary on our current youth. 

Some of you, sound real ignorant, half of the people involved with the riot were spanish kids raised in the bronx, white kids raised in manhattan, so don’t just, segregate black people or people from “crow heights, flatbush, brownsville etc as thou they were the only one there. I Have videos to prove that majority of the people was different cultures. If any one wanted to leave from the riot they could have easily went through the crowd & took a different staircase.

& By The way I was involved with the riot, but I have a 83.50 average, so don’t under estimate & say its only the ignorant & illiterate kids involved.

It is a sad day for people that wanted to see real progress at mbhs. If you read the comments above you can see that most of the students don’t even really know what was really being done at the school to make things better. And even after the facts are posted they continue to harp and complain on the wrong facts. They were used. I know that. Now that they are of no value to the individuals that used them, these “educators” will go back to protecting “underperforming” teachers that don’t care about these students. They had a short term agenda to “hurt” Dr. Lewis, a prepared exceptional black woman. Educated, passionate, truly interested in making people work for the kids. The comment yesterday from one of the conspirators, “well they were going to close the school any way.” That is a damn lie. We had a chance but that meant real change and they are not invested enough in these students to work harder. All of the parents should be up in arms. An educator, yes Dr. Lewis taught was hung out to dry because she was not afraid to make unpopular decisions that would make our students achievers. She wanted the buck to stop with her. She was willing to take responsibility for our school. And I will state this again. Restrooms were available for any student that needed them. Even though teachers told them they were not. In the future people will look back at what happened at mbhs and see it as a real tragedy. A wonderful school destroyed by people that put up a false front and then conspired behind the scenes for their own gain. If you couldn’t commit to making the sacrifices, then why didn’t you just leave. All the stats stated above about math are true. How could she look at a 45 percent passing rate in math for certain terms and not say we have to do better, the kids deserve more. The real culprit in this will probably start working at the union and we will be left holding up the abandoned kids trying to get them through. (during the so called riots, public enemy number 1 sat in his room with both doors open as students walked in and out of his room. Students eating and drinking in a computer room. This was observed by people actively trying to get kids back into the classrooms.) You can all say what you want about this posting. I have taught thousands of students, loved them, boasted
about their successes. Helped students that others have given up on. I have no agenda nothing to gain. Just wanted put some real information out there for anyone that ever cared or cares about
our beloved school. I will not return to this site so you can trash talk the truth. Just know that the dedicated teachers yes mbhs has lots of them will work as hard as we can to try to take care of
these abandoned, misdirected kids.

Wow.

1) Terrible situation, obviously. Enough poor decisions to fill a dump truck (pardon the pun).

2) Tim@9:20pm — great comment. (My nomination for “Chalk-it-up.”)

3) General note to exasperated teachers: I don’t know how you keep at it. (Just think how this will impact “value-added” metrics this year.)

4) General note to exasperated students: ORGANIZE. Just a few can call a meeting. Put up flyers to announce the meeting. Heck, put it up here on GS. Elect a few representatives to meet on your behalf with the administration, or speak at the next PEP meeting.

The next Panel for Educational Policy (i.e., the NYC Board of Education) meeting is this Tuesday, December 14. Get there early, and sign up to speak. The Chancellor (or Chancellor-to-be) may be there too. Regardless, the press will be there.

6:00PM at Brooklyn Technical High School, 29 Fort Greene Place, Brooklyn.
Take the “2″ or walk the three miles over the Brooklyn Bridge.

Channel your frustrations effectively.

Represent.

Everyone that does not go to Bergtraum or are not an alumni , I feel as tho you should not be commenting , your only voicing your opinion on the comments that are being put up here. You have not a clue what goes on in Bergtraum. Don’t pass judgement on us since you don’t know us. Denying students to use the bathroom all day is against school codes , she should have known that. If she did her job as the principal correctly then we would have never started a riot.

F-K this school i’m so F-K tight from the goddamn school why the hell didn’t the damn price able warn the students that there was a riot she new and plus she didn’t  say why the bathrooms were close apparently the bathroom was closed cause 2 students was fighting in the bathroom so Dr. what ever her last name is closed it what the hell was she thinking she knew that we student would riot but yet she though she can handle it with some cops F-King idiot

Good luck, Bergtraum students. I hope that you find peaceful ways to assert your rights and to use your agency that do not limit your ability to gain an education. I’m thinking a ‘sit in’ might work well. =) It’s really old fashioned, but if it worked for Ghandi, MLK, and countless others concerned with rights, it just might still work for you.  

smfh ya niqaaz dont knoe wutz gud ya need to stfu ya dont knoe shyt fuck wut yuh herrdd bergtraum mah fukin live son to all teachers nd staff students run this shyt so fuk wut yuh herrddddddd shyt wus live nd it stay live whoeva commented that dont go 2 bergtraum wtf yuh evin lookin at this 4 nd dont stee l the idea im off this bergtraum alll daiiiiii fucc wu juuuuuuuuu herdddddddddddddddd

So violence was supposed to change/better the situation???? Hurting each other is going to make a difference?? If this is how these younsters think they’re going to get things done, then I’m terrified for their future. I hope the parents of the participants aren’t applauding them for it. Putting peoples lives in Danger is an act of ignorance. I don’t agree with the principals actions, but there are other ways to be heard. If these student were as eager to learn and better their future as they are in creating violence in schools, this country would be a better place.

Murry Bergtraum students couldve been a great example on how to make a difference without violence, they couldve made positive news,but instead they chose to act like beasts.

The school was better before the principal came in. She’s messing with everything in our school. She makes us sit in U shapes and then the next week she decides she doesn’t like that and she wants groups of 4 and then back to the U shapes, she’s also making teachers teach us differently, and most of our teachers teach how they think is best. I heard she canceled the senior cruise or something like that (if it’s true, canceling something like that has NOTHING to do with improving the school). She even made student government take down all the art on the bulletin boards because she didn’t like it. It’s crappy enough that we have to sign in and wait in a line for a long time to use the one solitary bathroom for 1,000 girls in one and another bathroom for 1,000 boys but it’s INSANE making no one be allowed to use the bathroom. Using the bathroom isn’t a “privilege” like they keep saying, it’s a NECESSITY. She also treats us ALL like we’re bad. She’s not respectful. I get SOME students aren’t either but that’s not a free pass to treat ALL of us like criminals. She freaks out when we question her new rules so everyone just went the last resort: a riot.

OMG I was absent when th riot happened. I was in my house sick when I get a call from a friend who does not even go to that school sayin that ‘what’s going on. Mad people talkin about your school going crazy’ so I’m am like WHAT the fuck. I hang up and call a friend in my 3 period class. All I hear is screams a lots of voices. She told me that shes trying to get to the first floor. Some boy pushed her down the stairs tryin to get through stair case A. She told me that her neck was hurting then right in the middle of the convo the phone hangs up. Now today I didn’t see her and I have not heard from her yet hope she’s okay. Nobody was really in school today. Some people were hanging out on staircase A throwing up the Crip sign and was just looking for a fight with Hispanics. But thankfully nothin happened. It seemed like everyone was on edge today. Oh and I heard from a lot of people that the princable was hit with a banana at the back of her head. She did not deserve that and I’m sure that was not just a rumor. Well u heard this from a secondary source. Hope next week goes smooth.

What happened was not a riot. Although it created a dangerous and disruptive situation, it was fairly peaceful. The intent of the students was to protest not to destroy. They did in fact not destroy things, they were disruptive, but not destructive. It was not a savage and mindless act, and therefore more of a mass protest than a riot. We need to call things by their right names.

Any chance Gotham will shut this thread down?

Ugh just disgusting verbiage, Staff.  As a professional, you should think better than airing dirty laundry in a public forum that is shared with your own students.  

Denying kids the right to go to the bathroom……that’s utter administrative incompetence.  

This is sad. The smart kids who comment are already slaves to the system. The dumb kids can feel something is wrong but don’t know what it is or what to do about it. Visit schoolsucksproject.com to get a clue. The problem is bigger than students, teachers and principals. The problem is there is no principle!