Posted on 01/12/2014 7:49:23 AM PST by lowbridge
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.
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.
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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.
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Portrait of a typical member of our new racial nomenklatura.
Another Michelle Obama disciple.
Liberals don’t care about the children. They are a prop to be used or aborted.
If Obama had a school...
“$50,000,000 to build a new school.”
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Why not go for the gold? Where I live the taxpayers were charged $197 million for a high school.
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“but the teachers get paid handsomely and the 45 year old retired teachers are collecting their handsome retirement benefits as they sit sunning on the beaches of Miami”
And voting to ruin Florida just like they did when they lived in New York and stole their pay from the children!
BTW the “District Superintendent” in this story (Michelle Lloyd-Bey) is also Amish and was promoted from being “principal” of PS 106 to her current “position.”
This was some story! I can’t believe the woman just doesn’t go to work, and she still gets paid!
Teachers’ unions say they are underpaid and the schools need more money! They care about the kids, right?
more insanity from the public schools
It was the teachers in the school who dimed her. Notice in the article that allegations against this piece of garbage principal are from "a source"? That is because "a source" doesn't want to be targeted for harassment as retaliation by this sorry excuse for a principal.
Not a rubber ball; an APPLE.
In the movie it was a rubber ball.
Did I hit a nerve, NYC???
Yeppers, that verified it.
You’d think the teachers would kick in and do what they’re paid to do. You’d also think the parents would be at the school all day every day to make sure their kids were learning. But the the parents probably can’t get their noses out of the their obama phones and spending their EBTs to notice.
I wonder how many of these parents had no clue?
That is what I was wondering, how involved were they?
Where are the parents? [Rhetorical question, of course.]
fortunately, they are not subjected to two liter cokes or fatty popcorn
No, you didn’t hit a nerve. You missed what the truth is by a long shot, too. If you’re NOT in the NYC school system, you’re an outsider looking in. I gave here the true facts. You’re just spouting some generic one-size-fits-all anti-union crap without checking to which union the perp belongs.
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