The Calypso rhythms of Raffi's "Day-O" blared on a record player in the pre-kindergarten class at PS 29, and the teacher led her pupils dressed in matching yellow shirts and blue pants and skirts in a hip-swinging dance around the classroom. Upstairs, 3rd graders huddled over sleek, white, wireless laptop computers, researching the habitats of wolves in preparation for a class trip to a wolf preserve upstate. In another room, the school's reading coach loaded clear plastic backpacks with flash cards, books, and dolls (based on characters in books) to send home as a way to encourage parents to read aloud to their children and help kids master arithmetic facts.

The principal may appear nice to some but she does not care about the welfare of the children. The innocent children are terrorized and the guilty children go unpunished. As educators their main... read more

"I was very impressed by the students I met at The Melrose School. I prepared a lesson to celebrate the year of Astronomy and the Elementary students showed prior knowlege of the planets and... read more