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发帖数: 29846 | 1 No books, no clue at city’s worst school
By Susan Edelman
January 12, 2014 | 4:03am
This principal runs a school of “no.”
Students at PS 106 in Far Rockaway, Queens, have gotten no math or reading
and writing books for the rigorous Common Core curriculum, whistleblowers
say.
The 234 kids get no gym or art classes. Instead, they watch movies every day.
“The kids have seen more movies than Siskel and Ebert,” a source said.
The school nurse has no office equipped with a sink, refrigerator or cot.
The library is a mess: “Nothing’s in order,” said a source. “It’s a
junk room.”
No substitutes are hired when a teacher is absent — students are divvied up
among other classes.
A classroom that includes learning-disabled kids doesn’t have the required
special-ed co-teacher.
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.
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NO GYM OR ART: With no phys-ed or art classes, students are left to watch
movies, including “Alvin and the Chipmunks” and “Fat Albert.”
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NO SPACE: Without enough space in the main brick building, kindergartners
are taught in what sources say are rat-infested trailers.
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Principal Marcella Sills is a frequent no-show; The Post found she missed
every day of school last week but one.Photo: J.C. Rice
And the principal — Marcella Sills, who joined PS 106 nine years ago — is
a frequent no-show, sources say.
Sills did not come to school last Monday. On Tuesday, she showed up at 3:30
p.m.
On Wednesday, The Post found her at home in Westbury, LI, all day before
emerging at 2:50 p.m. — school dismissal time. Wearing a fur coat, she took
her BMW for a spin.
She showed up at school Thursday, but not Friday.
When Sills, 48, does go to work, it’s rarely before 11 a.m. — and
often hours later, say sources familiar with her schedule.
“She strolls in whenever she wants,” one said.
The school hasn’t had a payroll secretary in years.
A Department of Education spokesman said Sills was required to report her
absences and tardiness to District 27 Superintendent Michelle Lloyd-Bey but
would not say whether Sills did so last week.
Lloyd-Bey did not return a call. Sills hung up on a reporter.
When she is out, an assistant principal is left in charge. Yet Sills, who
gets a $128,207 salary, also pockets overtime pay — $2,900 for 83 hours in
2011, the latest available records show.
“This school is a complete s- -thole, but nobody in a position of
power comes to investigate. No one cares,” a community member said.
PS 106 families hope their cries for attention bring newly installed Schools
Chancellor Carmen Fariña to the rescue, saying they can’t recall any
prior DOE leader visiting the remote school.
She would find it sinking, they say.
The isolated building sits a block and a half from the beach, surrounded by
vacant, weed-choked lots, the road behind it strewn with trash bags and
broken TVs.
The floods of Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 wrecked a hangar-like annex,
called the Early Childhood Academy, which housed pre-K, kindergarten and
first and second grades. It has not been repaired.
Two kindergarten classes moved into “temporary classroom units” in the
yard. The other children moved into the main building, forcing some classes
to squeeze into small offices and storage rooms. The pre-K class sits in the
auditorium, but has to move to the cafeteria during the movies.
Kids in several grades said that last week they watched “Fat Albert,” “
Alvin and the Chipmunks” and “Monsters, Inc.,” but did not relish the
downtime.
“I like gym. I like to draw,” said Charm Russell, 10, who added her peers
are too restless and bored to watch the screen. “They’re always making
noise, and there’s nothing entertaining going on. No art, no gym, no music
class.”
More alarming, the teachers have gotten no curricula since Sandy. Last
February, the DOE announced several new options, including “Go Math” for
grades K-5, and “ReadyGen” or the state Education Department’s “Core
Knowledge” for English language arts. The books cover the Common Core
standards, skills that kids should master at each level.
But five months into the school year, PS 106 classes still don’t have the
books or teacher’s guides.
“They have no reading program, no math program,” a source said, adding
Sills blames outside administrators for not sending materials.
Teachers muddle through by printing out worksheets they find online, buying
their own copy paper.
The DOE gave no explanation for the missing curricula but said it’s “
working with the school to provide students with physical education.”
A spokesman denied the trailers are rat-infested.
Staffers won’t speak up or even file a grievance with their union because
Sills will retaliate, a source said.
Parents wonder if higher-ups know what’s going on.
“Why don’t they get on them? I don’t understand that,” said Michael
Moore, father of a second-grader.
Another father, Roland Legions, added. “They’re not doing right by the
kids.”
One mom said she couldn’t get a meeting with Sills to discuss concerns.
Another said Sills is “just not professional.”
“She should be here,” the mom said. “How is she going to run the school
if she’s not here?”
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
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【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: No books, no clue at city’s worst school
: By Susan Edelman
: January 12, 2014 | 4:03am
: This principal runs a school of “no.”
: Students at PS 106 in Far Rockaway, Queens, have gotten no math or reading
: and writing books for the rigorous Common Core curriculum, whistleblowers
: say.
: The 234 kids get no gym or art classes. Instead, they watch movies every day.
: “The kids have seen more movies than Siskel and Ebert,” a source said.
: The school nurse has no office equipped with a sink, refrigerator or cot.
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发帖数: 8291 | 3 keyword:
98% receive free lunch.
Those kids' parents don't care how much their kids learn.
So they don't care how the school has been run.
When the kids grow up, they continue to live on welfare,
generation after generation.
day.
【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: No books, no clue at city’s worst school
: By Susan Edelman
: January 12, 2014 | 4:03am
: This principal runs a school of “no.”
: Students at PS 106 in Far Rockaway, Queens, have gotten no math or reading
: and writing books for the rigorous Common Core curriculum, whistleblowers
: say.
: The 234 kids get no gym or art classes. Instead, they watch movies every day.
: “The kids have seen more movies than Siskel and Ebert,” a source said.
: The school nurse has no office equipped with a sink, refrigerator or cot.
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发帖数: 1397 | 4 To save taxpayer's money, they should mix birth control pills in the free
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: 98% receive free lunch.
: Those kids' parents don't care how much their kids learn.
: So they don't care how the school has been run.
: When the kids grow up, they continue to live on welfare,
: generation after generation.
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