Oct
17
As the Yankees prepared to take on the Angels, high school bowlers, some in homemade uniforms, battled at Ball Park Lanes in the Bronx
Two teammates shared a pair of headphones as they lustily sang along to Jay-Z’s newest anthem. Another group tried not to get caught sizing up the competition, while a few others flirted with girls who came to watch the Friday night showdown in the Bronx.
No, not the Yankees game — that was later, and across the street. This was a public school bowling match, six high schools battling across 15 lanes in a bowling alley that has seen Yankees dynasties rise and fall like so many clusters of bowling pins.
As the high-schoolers laced up their red-and-blue shoes, the Yankees prepared a block away for the opening of the American League Championship Series — perhaps the biggest game the storied franchise has played since 2004. The Yankees contest added extra sizzle to the midseason bowling match.
“It’s exciting,” said Jose Suncar, coach of the A. Philip Randolph Campus High School team. “We should be ready to compete, just like the Yankees and Angels — no matter the weather.” Read more..
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Feb
08
Mike Essl, against the wall, teaching a design class at the School of Art at Cooper Union. The college expects 3,300 applications for 265 spots in the Class of 2013
Afreen Juli, a senior at the Bronx High School of Science, applied early to Cooper Union, a college in Manhattan that specializes in engineering, art and architecture. So did 10 of her classmates, the most ever from Bronx Science, one of the city’s most selective public schools.
Ms. Juli, who lives in Coney Island, said that she wanted to study film and art; she also applied to the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. But, as she explained in an interview: “N.Y.U. is pretty expensive and I might not be able to afford it. Basically, Cooper Union is free.”
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Jan
08
Students leaving Bronx High School of Science for the day
A faculty revolt over working conditions is rocking the storied Bronx High School of Science, causing teachers to leave the elite public school.
Math teachers in particular blame a new administrator - Assistant Principal Rosemarie Jahoda - for verbal abuse, claiming they are admonished in front of students and have had their jobs threatened.
The percentage of teachers who had stayed at the school for more than two years had dropped to 66% in 2007 from 80% the year before.
“The worst she’s done is that we’ve lost faculty,” said a tenured teacher, who like all of the teachers interviewed asked that their names not be used for fear of retaliation.
“It’s gone beyond just being an unpleasant place to work.”
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Jan
08
The United Federation of Teachers said Thursday the head of the math department at Bronx High School of Science is a difficult problem they’re trying to solve. The UFT claims the teachers are not being treated with the respect they deserve and are sometimes treated like children.
“Screamed at, yelled at in front of students and had their jobs threatened. And told who they can and cannot speak to. And given disciplinary letters for minor infractions,” said UFT District Representative Lynne Winderbaum.
In 2007, the school hired a new assistant principal to head up the math department. Since then, the UFT said their members in that department have constantly complained about their new boss, Rosemarie Jahoda.
In fact, the union said last year, 20 out of 22 math teachers signed a Department of Education harassment complaint against her. The union representative for all Bronx high schools said five teachers have left since Jahoda was hired.
“I don’t believe they have left because of better money or better job offers else where. I think their firsthand testimony is that they were leaving because of the harassment and the atmosphere there,” said Winderbaum. Read more..
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The intersection of the Grand Concourse and 161st Street, as seen from the top of 888 Grand Concourse. Joyce Kilmer Park is in the center, with the Bronx County courthouse on the left, and Yankee Stadium in the background