But I don’t know where they’re moving.

Yesterday on a tour of the Middle School for Math and Science Explorations, a local middle school which shares space with Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA) and the Brooklyn High School for the Arts, my group was told by the Parent Coordinator that Khalil Gibran will be leaving the building at the end of the school year. “We have it in writing,” she said. “I wasn’t sure if she meant the end of this school year or next (2009).

The middle school shares the large cafeteria with KGIA (and the high school) although the different schools are never there at the same time. When KGIA (which the Parent Coordinator pronounced kagiya) moves out, middle schoolers will no longer have a 10:15 am lunch period on some school days due to overuse of the cafeteria.

Other than that, the three school have nothing to do with one another.

There also happens to be an article in today’s New York Sun about a nasty clash outside of City Hall yesterday about the Khalil Gibran International Academy:

Yesterday, opponents of Khalil Gibran said the school is “in chaos” and that it is at risk of becoming a mouthpiece for violent radical Islamic ideology. They said they are going to court to force the Department of Education to turn over documents proving the school’s curriculum is safe and reasonable, as the city has been arguing.

The press conference turned into a commotion of shouting matches when supporters of the school, who came with cameras and a press release of their own, began firing back and accusing the school’s opponents of bigotry.