Jenny Anderson wrote this article
yesterday. Since the hurricane hit New York city, students have been walking
past piles of debris, overturned cars and boats, and vans full of supplies for
the city dwellers on there way to school everyday. A lot of students are living
in bad situations where there is not electricity and rotting buildings from all
of the rain and flooding. “Life
for the students of Rockaway Park — among the 33 schools that remain severely
damaged as a result of Hurricane Sandy— has been upended. Many have been
scattered across New York City, with relatives or in shelters. “We’re
concerned,” said Jennifer Izzo, the guidance counselor. “We still can’t find
some of them.” The city’s Education Department has reassigned 15,000
displaced students to other schools; the students and teachers of Rockaway Park
are being sent to the Maspeth High School campus in Queens. Parents were upset,
since their new school, like their old neighborhood, is not easily reached by
public transportation. So the city agreed to send coach buses to Rockaway Park
to take the students to and from their temporary school. Supplies were short, despite
the fact that some workers had defied orders not to enter Rockaway Park High
School, sneaking in to smuggle out science and math textbooks, which were there
when the students arrived at Maspeth.” (Anderson, “Uprooted”). A lot of the
students now have nothing and Rockaway school used to require uniforms, since
the storm, they postponed that rule and now its hard for students to find
something appropriate for school. It’s going to be a long time for things in
New York city.
This article has to deal with education
because students in New York city are having a hard time succeeding in school
from missing books, having a hard time with the transportation of even getting
there, and the fact that they don’t even have electricity to get on with their daily
lives. What I don’t understand is why aren’t we getting more involved in
helping them? It isn’t like they are across the seven seas or whatever; they
are in the same country, just a few hours away. Those students need our help!
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