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NYC tries to blame remote school failures on students with summer guilt trip
New York City public schools just can’t quit remote learning, no matter how much of an educational and logistical disaster it’s proven to be again and again. Witness the latest debacle: Schools trying to guilt trip parents into forcing their kids to log on during an upcoming day off. Why should schoolkids be wasting time logging into Zoom instead of playing outside on a beautiful early June day, you ask? Because last time the schools tried to go full remote, during a February snow day, the system crashed. So now — the moronic argument runs — the onus is on kids to help the...
Head of swanky NYC prep school accused of ripping antisemitism task force as ‘power play by Jewish families’
The head of a swanky Manhattan prep school allegedly ripped a newly created antisemitism task force as a “joke” and nothing more than a “power play by Jewish families” to have him ousted, according to a new lawsuit. Collegiate School’s top administrator, David Lourie, is accused of deriding the task force after it was set up by the school’s board of trustees to weed out any potential antisemitism on the Upper West Side campus in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks, papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court allege. The claims were laid bare in a wide-ranging gender...
Bergen County District Suddenly Terminates Super, Hires New One With Double Doctorates
Ramapo-lndian Hills Regional High School has hired a new superintendent.In a unanimous vote on Tuesday, May 28, the RIH Board of Education voted 9-0 in favor of approving Dr. Ronnie Tarchichi's contract, which goes into effect July 1.The board also voted 7-0 with two abstentions to terminate t…
12-year-old Long Island prodigy heading to college
FOX 5 NY's Jodi Goldberg brings us the story of 12-year-old Suborno Bari, who is heading off to become a student at New York University this fall, despite being quite a bit younger than is fellow incoming classmates.
NYC teacher’s groups push anti-Israel walkout by hundreds of public school students
Hundreds of New York City kids walked out of school Friday and staged a pro-Palestinian protest that was promoted by several radical teacher groups. Some 350 students had descended on the Department of Education headquarters at the Tweed Courthouse in Lower Manhattan starting by 4 p.m.. They were seen waving signs on the front steps of the building calling for a cease-fire in Gaza and describing Israel’s military offensive on the region following the Oct. 7 terror attack as “genocide.” The walkout was organized by Teachers Unite and a handful of other groups, including NYC Educators for Palestine, the Palestine Youth Movement, Al-AWDA NY, Movement of MORE Rank-&-File Educators, and...
Prom 2024: Great Kills High School P37R dance and dine (131 photos)
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NYC Parents Outraged by DOE’s Summer Remote-Learning Simulation
New York City parents are not happy with the Department of Education (DOE) after being asked to log on alongside their children for a remote learning simulation during summer break. The move is set to help the system better prepare for this form of learning following a technical meltdown on a snow day in February 2024. Families are being asked to voluntarily log into their school systems on June 6 for a non-instructional activity during a pre-scheduled time slot. Administrators warn that the more people who participate, “the more accurate and useful” the data from the event will be. According to...
Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine graduates 120 new doctors at the Apollo
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