No child left behind...RRIIIGGHHHTTT.

According to a post on www.NYpost.com a school in Far Rockaway, Queens in New York is lost and forgotten. This report disgusted me to say the least. Children are the furture right? So why are the leaders of tommorrow receiving less than less than attention and eductional support? 

According to the report PS 106 is allocated $2.9 million to serve a low-income population with 98 percent of its students eligible for free lunches. As a Title 1 school, it gets extra federal funds, but community members say they’ve never seen a budget tracking the income and spending.


The article was ridden with horrible personal accounts from parents and community member. These struck me the worse:

• Marcella Sills who is the principal over at PS106 gets a $128,207 salary, and also pockets overtime pay — $2,900 for 83 hours in 2011, records show.
  
• About 40 kindergartners have no room in the three-story brick building. They sit all day in dilapidated trailers that reek of “animal urine,” a parent said; rats and squirrels noisily scamper in the walls and ceiling.
  
• The school nurse has no office equipped with a sink, refrigerator or cot.
  
• Students at PS 106 in Far Rockaway, Queens, have gotten no math or reading and writing books for the rigorous Common Core curriculum

that's not even the half....

Marcella Sills of PS 106. Photo Courtesy of J.C. Rice & NYPost

see the full story here: 
http://nypost.com/2014/01/12/no-space-no-books-no-leader-no-clue-at-citys-worst-elementary/

Having friends that are educators, and once aspiring to be an educator myself, this story is nothing but a cry for help. Why should the students, parents and related parties suffer at the hands of an unorganized and unethical leadership. 

-TheeBlackSocialite

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Source: NYPost
Images: J.C. Rice/NYPost & Google Images