Hundreds of students, and staff rallied Friday to save Sheepshead Bay High School from closing. The school is in danger of being “closed” by the Department of Education due to its “persistently lowest achieving graduation rate”. The atmosphere was excited and hopeful as teachers, para professionals, parents, and students, walked the perimiter of the school chanting ” Save Sheesphead Bay”.
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“I am so proud” said one 20+ year veteran worker “I’ve been here through the good and the bad and this [rally] was definitely on of the good.” ”Closing a school with this much fight and the spirit that I see here today is about as mindless as appointing a chancellor with no education experience” said Councilman Lew Fidler. The councilman has recently introduced legislation to deny Cathie Black.
Neighboring John Dewey High School who has been rallying at 7:15am every friday showed up to support their Avenue X neighbors. They both share an Avenue X address with Dewey at 50 Avenue X and Sheepshead located at 3000 Avenue X.
There has been no decisions made yet by the DOE, any decision made will be for the 2011 school year.
Can anyone count all the criminals?
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I don’t see any criminals – no local thugs in the pics.
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THERE KIDS ARE NOT CRIMINALS U ARE PROBABLY A CRIMINAL
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looks like zoo
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what a joke. let it close and turn it into a jail.
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wait…i thought it was a jail already? i’m confused…
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NO ITS NOT A JAIL
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Doesn’t look like the local school to me – where are the neighborhood kids. Teh Bd of Ed ruined the school with bussing all the bloods and everything other bad kid there. Sheepshead “used” to be a good school. Ask how it got the way it is – I think it made it to the top 5 worst schools in NYC. Not good.
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SHEEPSHEAD SCHOOL WAS BAD ITS NOT LIKE THAT NOW TRUST I KNOW I WENT THERE
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Are there any white students ??
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Maybe I missed something in the report, this effects the wonderful GB Community, how?
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no, that is where the kids from Gerritsen Beach USED to go to High School
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“In a related story, local stores within proximity of Sheepshead Bay High School which carry oak tag paper and poster boards found their inventory drop without any signs of profit. More on this story at 11:00pm.”
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the bottom picture, is that outside the school or at Skate Park
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Who knew this neighborhood had such witty racists?
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Looks like a Civil rights rally.Where is Sharpton.?
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He is inciting a riot somewhere.
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All these people thats talking about criminals ad its looks like a zoo and all this negative stuff about sheepshead needs shut up because i bet yall have not step one foot in that school sheepshead bay high school has change alot from how its use to be ok students have fights in the school what school doesnt but when its comes to leadership and education sheepshead bay has it the graduration RATE and everything else went up so i for one say KEEP SHEEPSHEAD BAY HIGH SCHOOL OPEN………..
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Hey Asha..You say you went to Sheepshead..Now tell me whats with the “needs shut up” “yall”,and your destruction of the English Language ? My God and you graduated ??? Did you ever take English ? I do agree Keep Sheepshead open,that way you can go back and learn how to spell and write a sentence that makes sense..Oh! I did go to Sheepshead.The difference was, when I graduated they looked at the test scores,and there was no affirmative action.
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[...] If you remember there was a Save the High School rally back in November 2010 [...]
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