Development Watch: Sunset Park H.S. Rising Fast

This neighborhood is going to be HOT in 10 years.

Posted by: guest at March 28, 2008 1:03 PM

thats great!

Posted by: guest at March 28, 2008 1:22 PM

What a great and timely post to commemorate main round high school acceptance day. I will be at dismissal to thoroughly embarrass my eighth grader. Wonderful news and a much needed Brooklyn option.

Posted by: guest at March 28, 2008 1:35 PM

Zach...there will be computers in the classroom & admin offices, laptop or otherwise...and why not wireless? Aren't we obligated to be teach our children by using state of the art methods?

Posted by: guest at March 28, 2008 3:47 PM

many public schools in nyc are wireless...even elementary schools.

Posted by: guest at March 28, 2008 4:45 PM

This is great news. It seemed for a minute that jail construction beat out high school construction. Better to invest in schools now than jails later. Now if something could just be done with the UFT.

Posted by: guest at March 28, 2008 5:51 PM

Sorry 5:51, but state law prohibits teachers from striking. As long as that exists we'll have a weak union, poor working conditions and high turnover among teachers.

Posted by: guest at March 28, 2008 7:07 PM

If you had lived in Massachusetts and or California you'd understand what a disaster strong teachers' unions have been for the quality and cost of public education. You wind up with more administrators than teachers, entrenched under-performing teachers who don't give a damn, and budgets geared towards benefits more than books or facility upkeep.

A crooked cartel fixing prices and manipulating the quality of product without consumer consent is an outrage when its the mafia, OPEC, drug companies, etc, but somehow public education is exempt?

Posted by: guest at March 29, 2008 6:29 PM

7:07,

It is clear that you are a teacher. You immediately thought of yourself and your co-horts by posting about striking and "poor working conditions," instead what you could do to help the children in your classroom. Meat factories, potato fields, crazy wards, sewers, etc... are poor working conditions. In comparison to teachers in the the majority of other states in the country, you have it good.

Posted by: guest at March 30, 2008 8:29 PM

Our goal is to prepare students to exist in the digital world. If starbucks can provide wi-fi for coffee drinkers you bet we have an obligatin to provide this same technology for students doing research and engaged in academic endeavors. FYI many schools do have wireless networks and I myself have seen them used in a variety of creative ways. This school will be a gem for Brooklyn. It provide for a personalized learning environmnent and as a small creative school educate in ways the current big schools in the area have not.

Posted by: guest at March 31, 2008 2:45 PM

So what's impact to the neighboring residential area (the ealtors call hot 36th st)with 600 high schoolers roaming about. Especially in the morning and afternoons with the 36th st stop flooded with testosterone. Any experience when a HS moves into the nab.

Posted by: guest at April 6, 2008 9:37 AM

I'm not sure the neighbors across the street at Greenwood Cemetery will complain too much about the school

Posted by: guest at April 7, 2008 3:16 PM