It’s a long, byzantine story of buracracy and disappointment for Sunset Park, which has been waiting for a high school for 37 years. And the residents are ANGRY and Mobilized. Here’s an excerpt from the story in the New York Daily News.
For the third time, the neighborhood was promised a high school in the latest five-year school construction budget, only to see it cut at the last minute because of budget woes.
“It’s been taken away three times, and now people are incensed,” said Julie Stein Brockway, chairwoman of the Sunset Park High School Task Force.
“If this was Park Slope, this wouldn’t happen. If this was Bay Ridge, this wouldn’t happen,” added Brockway, who also heads the Center for Family Life in Sunset Park. “We are going to get this high school this time. The community is way too mobilized.”
Sunset Park is one of only two city community districts without a high school, advocates said.
What gets my goat is the backlash that occurs when families fake their adresses to go to schools in nearby neighborhoods like Fort hamilton in Bay Ridge. What are they supposed to do?