Comments on: Attendance is low as storm-battered schools reopen in new sites

By: Former Turnaround Teacher

Former Turnaround Teacher — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 03:04:00 +0000

PS 114 is a high performing school, that serves mainly the middle and upper middle class Rockaway communities. When even those students are not going to school, you can see how bad it really is.

By: Nycdoenuts

Nycdoenuts — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 02:21:00 +0000

Great piece.

One thought: 15% student attendance from the Rockaways should be a bright red flag that that community is in great need of a lot of attention -right now. For example: With no electricity and no cell phone service, I should not have been surprised when my straight A student (from the Rockaways) told me that he had just learned about tonight’s snow storm and about the evacuation ordered because if it just this morning after he came back to school (this is usually a very well informed young man). How, for all of their heroic efforts in getting things up and running again, did the DOE expect these parents to get word that buses would meet them at their former school site to take them to Lane?

It’s starting to become clear that some of the almost basic functions of government are in pieces over on the eastern part of the peninsula. That would be bad enough. But that it’s effecting students (& my students at that) is horrible.

By: usantana

usantana — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 01:47:00 +0000

and the principal of Dewey stood at the entrance fence to the school with a group of other teachers and staff and greeted students and welcomed them back into the building while an assistent principal and teacher drove to the bay parkway subway stop to greet students and direct them where to go since the train didn’t go all the way to bay 50th street. it was really nice.