Parents choose schools for their children in order to ensure the best education for their children in a positive, challenging and safe environment. Schools must be stable and safe based upon which layers of education and growth can be laid. If a school is unstable and unsafe, positive learning simply can’t take place.
Stability and safety were deciding factors for some of the school closures recently reported on by NY1.
City officials announced Thursday that three more schools will be closing due to poor performance, in addition to four schools selected a day before. The latest schools on the chopping block are Jamaica High School in Queens, the School for Community Research and Learning in the Bronx and Academy of Collaborative Education in Manhattan. The latter opened in 2006
Earlier, other schools were also given notice of closure. They are:
Fredrick Douglas Academy 3 Middle School in the Bronx
Maxwell High School in Brooklyn
Academy of Environmental Science
Kappa Two
AES and Kappa Two will stay open to allow current students to graduate, but will not be accepting new students.
The stability and safety of some of the schools were listed as major factors in their closing. It can be seen that student satisfaction and percentages of students who go on to graduate are very low.
Jamaica has had trouble attracting students, while other schools nearby are overcrowded. Teachers say that the DOE has been trying to shutter it for years, even though both enrollment and the graduation rate have improved. But the 46 percent graduation rate is still 20 points below the Queens average.
At the Academy of Collaborative Education, a survey found zero percent of the teachers reported that there is order and discipline and just 27 percent of students say they feel safe
Choosing the right school for your child is about more than exciting programs, easy admissions or access. Though the closing of small schools is difficult for everyone involved, those with such low graduation rates must be overhauled and reinstituted to provide a new opportunity in stable and safe education for all students involved.
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I’ve been reading your blog for a few weeks now and I generally like your content. However, I was really disturbed by the biased tone of this post. I suppose one has the right to do so in their own blog, but I don’t think you’re doing your readers any favours here.
First of all, the not all of the schools slated for closure are small schools. Some, like Jamaica HS are large neighbourhood high schools that have been in the community for years. Second, the graduation rate figures need to be put in proper context. A lot of kids at these schools are ELL and special needs that take a while longer than the traditional 4 years to graduate.
I’m not saying these schools are all great, but they are working at improving with the deck heavily stacked against them. If they had the same resources as charter school and private schools do, I’m sure their performance would be a lot better. There are a lot of issues involved with closing down schools. Your brief article quoting chunks of text from other articles (and not providing any reference) is pretty misleading. It would be nice if you could present more of the facts from both sides so that your readers can get a good understanding of what is going on and be able to make informed decisions for themselves.
Besides this, I’m glad that your site is here to give us information about the private school in NYC.