Batesheba Baskin picking up her daughter Paris from Girls Prep charter school in the Bronx. The school is sharing space with a middle school
New York City public school students don’t head back to class until next Wednesday. But some charter schools have already opened, including a new one in the Bronx just for girls. As WNYC’s Beth Fertig reports, Girls Prep Bronx is part of a movement to expand single sex education.
JENKINS: OK, every team go ahead pick a book
The 19 first graders in teacher Lois Jenkins’s class are all sharply dressed for the first day of school. Their hair is neatly pulled into pony tails, or braided with beads. Their school uniforms are fresh navy jumpers with clean white shirts, no wrinkles.
Jenkins is teaching the girls to use the classroom library. She also teaches them how to encourage each other.
JENKINS: Turn to the girl next to you and tell her “you did a good job.” GIRLS: You did a good job!
CARBONE: One of our core values is sisterhood.
Josie Carbone is the principal of Girls Prep Bronx, which opened yesterday in Hunts Point.
CARBONE: And so what we’re trying to foster is this idea that we all get better by supporting one another. And that it’s not about a competition but about lifting every one up.
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