Comments on: Seats open in new transfer schools http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/06/16/seats-open-in-new-transfer-schools/ Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:02:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Rachel http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/06/16/seats-open-in-new-transfer-schools/#comment-8351 Rachel Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:55:42 +0000 http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/06/16/seats-open-in-new-transfer-schools/#comment-8351 This message is for Lisa who posted above - worried about the co-mingling of a transfer high school & a middle school : My daughter attends Urban Academy - a transfer school in Manhattan that shares it's building with five other schools including a prek-8th grade school and a day care center for children of high school students who attend one of the schools in the building. This is from the website about the complex : " As educator Deborah Meier, one of JREC's planners, noted, "what was at the heart of what we were trying to establish was a strong community - a setting that would provide the most natural way for people to learn. Strong communities are multi-generational." Meier also pointed out that adolescents look at the world differently when younger kids are around, noting "it softens their way of interacting with each other." For these reasons, the redesign of Julia Richman Education Complex called for an infant toddler center for the children of teen parents, an elementary school, a middle school, four high schools, and a teacher center." This message is for Lisa who posted above - worried about the co-mingling of a transfer high school & a middle school :

My daughter attends Urban Academy - a transfer school in Manhattan that shares it’s building with five other schools including a prek-8th grade school and a day care center for children of high school students who attend one of the schools in the building.

This is from the website about the complex :

” As educator Deborah Meier, one of JREC’s planners, noted, “what was at the heart of what we were trying to establish was a strong community - a setting that would provide the most natural way for people to learn. Strong communities are multi-generational.”

Meier also pointed out that adolescents look at the world differently when younger kids are around, noting “it softens their way of interacting with each other.”

For these reasons, the redesign of Julia Richman Education Complex called for an infant toddler center for the children of teen parents, an elementary school, a middle school, four high schools, and a teacher center.”

]]> By: Lisa http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/06/16/seats-open-in-new-transfer-schools/#comment-7959 Lisa Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:49:39 +0000 http://insideschools.org/blog/2009/06/16/seats-open-in-new-transfer-schools/#comment-7959 The residents of Canarsie are not all pleased that the East Brooklyn Community transfer high school will be housed in the same building as a middle school. This will place children as young as 11 under the same roof with adults as old as 20. We feel that this creates a potentially dangerous situation and we are angered by not having been informed prior to this decision being reached by the Dept. of Ed. Transfer schools are typically for students who could not or did not function well in a traditional setting. The DOE has made a big mistake. This is just another blemish on a neighborhood that has been suffering as of late. The residents of Canarsie are not all pleased that the East Brooklyn Community transfer high school will be housed in the same building as a middle school. This will place children as young as 11 under the same roof with adults as old as 20. We feel that this creates a potentially dangerous situation and we are angered by not having been informed prior to this decision being reached by the Dept. of Ed. Transfer schools are typically for students who could not or did not function well in a traditional setting. The DOE has made a big mistake. This is just another blemish on a neighborhood that has been suffering as of late.

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