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
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You seem to be so extreme! Are you saying the school is not good for the area?
no what im saying is the area is not good for the area. people will move in and buy a 3/4 of a million dollar house (because that is all they can afford) and claim to want to live in a diverse area, but then not send their kids to this school. it’s just lame, the whole dynamic of housing prices and schools and parents and kids and everything. it’s all LAME
*rob*
parents are a more important factor than schools in explaining student achievement. all of you who are proud and successful products of NYC public schools (I am too, by the way) most likely have your family to thank. although Rob is expressing his opinions in a rather unproductive way, he is correct about one thing, and none of us liberals wants to say it: 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.
It’s time to get live!
It’s time to represent!
Sunset Park what time is it!
***Bid half off peak comps***
Very well said, Stonergut and ENY.
I’m sure the people who actually matter in this story (the kids, teachers and parents) are thrilled with this news.
They probably don’t much care that a grown man who worships Hanna Montana doesn’t approve.
building will also house the BKLYN Prospect charter school until they settle into their permanent home
Please excuse Rob, he had some bad HS experiences, colored folks (including folks on welfare) were always ahead of him in all aspects and he even got beat down by some boys due to uncontrollable winking aimed at girls…
If only segregation was still alive and kicking, Rob would have ended up both wealthy and happy…
Couldn’t agree more, Stonergut. I’m a product of NYC public schools, as are my brother and sister – all three well-employed, successful professionals. My son is also a NYC public school grad and last year received his degree from a well-known eastern university. My wife is a NYC public school teacher, as was my Mom. The fact is that majority of NYC teachers and students do an amazing job, regardless of the ignorant comments of a few poorly informed detractors.
> the achievements of our public school high school kids.
Amen. A friend of mine lives in Prospect Heights. His downstairs neighbors sent their kid to public schools, and she got accepted to Yale. Not bad for a “wild animal.”
I think Rob’s bean bag sprung a leak.