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Sat, 2014-01-18 23:58 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

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nypost.com - by Susan Edelman - January 12, 2014

This principal runs a school of “no.”

Students at PS 106 in Far Rockaway, Queens, have gotten no math or reading and writing books for the rigorous Common Core curriculum, whistleblowers say.

The 234 kids get no gym or art classes. Instead, they watch movies every day.

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Sun, 2014-01-19 00:11 — Kathy Gilbeaux

newyork.cbslocal.com - January 13, 2014

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A school in Far Rockaway, Queens is being investigated over allegations that the principal is asking parents to pay for a lavish dance while fellow students don’t even have textbooks.

As CBS 2′s Sonia Moghe reported, PS 106 parent Tonnice McNeill said principal Marcella Sills required boys to wear tuxedos and girls to wear white dresses for their fifth grade graduation ceremony in June.

McNeill said she paid more than $200 for the event.

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Sun, 2014-01-19 00:19 — Kathy Gilbeaux

huffingtonpost.com - by Rebecca Klein - January 13, 2014

Reports of what the New York Post dubbed the “city’s worst school” has parents and education advocates around the country fuming mad.

The Post's Sunday report detailed some of the alleged abuses taking place at PS 106 in the Far Rockaway neighborhood in Queens. According to the report, the elementary school does not offer gym classes or art classes, does not have the proper reading and math textbooks and does not hire substitute teachers. Instead, students at the school are made to watch movies all day, some sitting in rooms that are reportedly rat-infested and smell of “animal urine.”

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