Voices from Parents at Closing Schools
Yesterday the PEP voted to close 10 schools across the city. Tomorrow, they will vote to close 12 more schools. Below, parents from two of those schools write about why their school should remain open.
by Chrisanna Thomas, parent from MS 571
The Department of Education under the guidance of Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Black, has a plan to destroy, eliminate NYC Public Schools and shirk their responsibilities to our children.
I’m the parent of a 7th grader who attends MS 571, one of the schools slated for closure. This was never a proposal, this was a done deal from the start. When the 2009-2010 progress report was received, it stated that the school received a D grade. On page 2 of the report it states that schools that receive D’s F’s or C’s for three years in a row are evaluated to determine the reasons for their “poor” performance and provided with intensive support so they can improve. Where has the support for this school been? We were provided with a mentor, attendance improved and as soon as the “proposal” was announced the mentor was pulled. We got none of the leadership support, mentoring and training that was talked about in the “fact” sheet. Where was the professional
