Posted on 05/28/2023 4:46:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
he city Department of Education is ignoring pleas to help an Upper West Side public school so overwhelmed by an influx of migrant kids that it can no longer provide popular programs due to a lack of space, angry parents told The Post.
With 535 students currently crammed into PS 145 – nearly 100 more than what the West 105th Street school is designed to hold – parents said all students, including newcomers from Ukraine, Russia, and Latin America, are suffering for it. Last year, the school had 393 students.
Since the fall, after the city enrolled scores of young asylum seekers – many housed in a former shelter at the nearby Park West Hotel – rooms previously used for a music program, a TV studio where kids produced videos and a Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics [STEAM] lab had to be converted into classrooms.
Science equipment, musical instruments, books, and other supplies bought with taxpayer dollars and grants now sit in a cluttered storage closet gathering dust, next to desks for displaced science teachers.
"It’s just unacceptable,” fumed Anna Azvolinsky, who has a daughter in third grade and a son in pre-K. “These kids deserve better.”
Citywide, an estimated 16,000 migrant kids have enrolled in city public schools since the fall — far exceeding about 1,700 who arrived the prior academic year and started school in September.
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Welcome to the PURPOSE of “sanctuary cities”. Being a “sanctuary city” REQUIRES recources (Federal and state) to deal with those admitted into the “sanctuary”.
Cloward and Piven would be so proud.
And it is not just the number of new students, they don’t speak English so they need all kinds of extra specialized staff.
Homeschool if you want your kids to be able to think for themselves, public school if you want them to be SLAVES!!
Those racist New Yorkers.
Martha's Vineyard is close by. Lot's of options.
Welcome to the reality of illegal immigration, NY. The rest of us have been dealing with this for years.
The goal is to lower the standards of everyone and everything to third-world status. What better way to do that than bring the third-world here?
One very simple and revealing thing to further expose the mind of the modern liberal, especially the affluent WHITE modern liberal.
Let them know that there will be a townhall type meeting for all the parents to discuss their grievances.
If/when they show up, pack the place, standing room only, present them a PowerPoint on illegal border crossing activity from 2017 to the present. Don’t even mention the names of the Presidents or the DHS Secretary.
Point out a few of the policy decisions and actions that were taken from 2017 to present. Focusing on the cancelling of EOs, etc, that took place in Jan 2021 to now.
Talk about the costs associated.
Then, ask them, one by one to stand up and tell the room who they voted for. They won’t say sh*t. They’ll just yell and scream. They’ll just say that their vote doesn’t matter and that it’s the federal governments job to secure the border. Then it can be pointed out that the federal government did secure the border from 2017 to 2021 and that when someone new showed up, that person being in public service for over 50 years, he changed it.
Then feel free to show clips of all the democrats talking about securing the border, deporting illegals, etc. And make sure to play a clip of Clinton’s SOTU from 1995, where he spoke of all the things that Pres Trump did and tried to do, with ZERO help from Congress.
And then fold up the laptop and walk out.
Citywide, an estimated 16,000 migrant kids have enrolled in city public schools since the fall...
One of the 3 most dangerous people in the world.
You get what you vote for and get what you deserve if you don’t bother to vote. What don’t these morons understand.
A whole platter of mess!
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