Waaaa, I am so not upset except for that they want to re-open this as a high school? Only in a screwed up city like New York, Detroitistan, or Dearbornistan.
From HillBuzz.
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The first public madrassa set to close due to violence
Bridget Casey
The first public school madrassa (in NYC) will have to close because of low enrollment and high violence. My first question is….where is the media coverage of this? Nevermind….I know the answer to that. Thank God we have people like the wonderful Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs to keep us informed of what is really going on in the fight against the Islamic invasion.
Here is the latest on the New York City middle school madrassa…..
The first public school madrassa in Brooklyn is an abject failure. They are closing the middle school because of the low enrollment and perhaps the worst violence of any of the city schools. Last year I reported that the school was forced to suspend more than one-third of its student body for infractions ranging from hitting to weapons.
In March of 2010:
“Every day, they’re fighting,” said Voneeda Black, who nervously sends her 6-year-old to the elementary school with which Gibran shares a building.
“You don’t see parents,” she said. “Three or four times a week, there are cops here, if not more.”
It may be the worst record in the city.
So I think it appropriate to take a hard look at Gibran — a school founded on the flawed notion that segregating Arabists will lead to harmony.
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Since it opened, the tiny school on the edge of DUMBO has had one of the city’s highest rates of violence. A teacher was taunted by kids as a “terrorist” in 2008. It’s gotten steadily worse.
More than a third — one in three! — of Gibran’s 114 students, grades six through eight, have been suspended this year, according to the Department of Education.
Twenty-two were yanked from school for five days. Eight kids were considered so rowdy or dangerous, they were banned from class six to 10 days.
Nineteen fights led to student injuries or intimidation. In two other cases, weapons were used. This number has climbed from last year’s 17 violent incidents and 26 suspensions.
So they are closing the middle school and reopening as a a high school (!). Why is beyond me — just close this publicly funded madrassa.And you’ll notice in the reportage the violence and school failure is never mentioned.
Join me — we have been fighting this madrassa, the Khalil Gibran International Academy, since the city announced plans to open it in 2007. Pamela Hall has been leading this fight as well. We were both first on the story and the fight, Atlas as early as February 2007. August 2007: NY PUBLIC SCHOOL MADRASSA IMAM: “Jihad is our way, And death in the way of Allah is our promised end”
Write, call, email Michael Doomberg, mayor of New York and urge him to close this dangerous, violent school.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
City Hall
New York, NY 10007
PHONE 311 (or 212-NEW-YORK outside NYC)
FAX (212) 312-0700
E-MAIL:
So…let me get this straight….they are closing this failed miserable school and reopening it as a high school?
Are they crazy?
Nevermind…I know the answer to that one.
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A very old friend of mine is a teacher in NYC. She informed me that they were going to retool the school as a High School because they couldn't get decent enrollment as a Middle School, not because of the violence. I bet you the High School lasts only 2 years.
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