Sunset Park Finally Getting Its Own High School
When the school year begins on September 9th, Sunset Parkers will be cheering. Why? Because after more than three decades, they’ll finally have a high school to call their own. As the Daily News pointed out in an article last February, discussions about the school began four decades ago but were derailed by fiscal problems…
When the school year begins on September 9th, Sunset Parkers will be cheering. Why? Because after more than three decades, they’ll finally have a high school to call their own. As the Daily News pointed out in an article last February, discussions about the school began four decades ago but were derailed by fiscal problems of the 1970s. Construction on the 1,500-seat school, which will be focused on three tracks–performing and visual arts; health and human services, and business and entrepreneurship–finally began in 2006. GMAP
To bad that your kids wont be safe in that school as it is being operated non union workers.CALL 311 AND ASK THE MAYOR TO MANDATE THAT LOCAL 94 OPERATE THAT BUILDING IT IS THE ONLY SCHOOL IN THE CITY WITH OUT LOCAL 94 MEMBERS
Oops. Big Jugs. Sheeish.
Bite Jugs, my kid is at MIT.
“i live very close to a high school that doesn’t appear to serve any neighborhood kids. all the kids come off the subway it seems and all are black. to date, have seen nothing but orderly and happy kids and there’s certainly been no crime, or actually, anything bad that has occurred.
i believe that we should have more faith in NYC kids.”
Yes, in W’burg there’s nothing wrong. EVER. Wine lover, name one thing bad in your area and you’ll actually have some credibility on here.
If the children of the above posters attended such elite schools, why not name them? Because they are not so elite after all! No one hesitates to brag that they went to Harvard, Yale, or any other truly elite school.
Oh and to comment on the first posting about the disaster of 3pm release time, this is located in an area where there are very very few residents. Across the street is Greenwood Cemetery (their residents are not disturbed by kids)Its on 4th Avenue a very busy corridor with zooming trucks and some local deliveries to the stores. Down the block are some industrial buildings and at the end of the block is a cute little park. Then you’re at 3rd Avenue – Bush Terminal all industrial and no residents. So – to Rob – don’t worry!
This new school in Sunset Park has the possibility of providing a vibrant and diverse NYC neighborhood with its first public high school of any sort. For decades all their children had to travel – leading to incredible overcrowding of John Jay to the North, Fort Hamilton to the South and probably New Utrecht to the Southeast.
The building itself is kind of drab. (I pass it nearly every day)and the bright yellow windows are bizarre and contribute nothing. It is an SCA building – don’t know who the architect is. From personal experience – if the community works with the SCA you can get them to listen and create a building with some character. (Take a look at the addition they just completed at High School of Telecommunications at 4th Avenue and 67th/Senator St) My fear is that Sunset Park does not have enough of an organized community to fight for anything better than the drab gray box with bright yellow windows that they got.
That being said, we’re delighted that they got it done and it will be ready to open in September.
i live very close to a high school that doesn’t appear to serve any neighborhood kids. all the kids come off the subway it seems and all are black. to date, have seen nothing but orderly and happy kids and there’s certainly been no crime, or actually, anything bad that has occurred.
i believe that we should have more faith in NYC kids.
“most of our high schools are serving kids who are not prepared for high school work, and whose social skills are vastly underdeveloped. these schools are the ones you don’t send your kids to, and if they are the schools you graduated from, the surrounding neighborhood has changed and so have the schools. think Lafayette HS – formerly a great school, now a violent mess. Or Sheepshead Bay or FDR. Or John Jay, on and on and on.
Sunset Park HS is good for families who formerly had to send their kids far away for school. Whether or not it will be a good school depends on the principal and teachers it employs, and more importantly, on the families who decide to send their kids there. ”
After nine years of teaching at one of Brooklyn’s best high schools (one which is now in decline), I couldn’t have said it better than Brooklynguy.
Rob is correct in one thing: no matter what specialized track they’re on, ALL students must take the Regents exam, and Regents-related classes take up about 80% of the school day if not more.
“If you treat ANY kids with respect – like providing a cheerful new building like the Sunset Park school – they usually respond by being respectful themselves.”
Key word – USUALLY.