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[quote=Anonymous]NP. Agree that the PTA president should have been looped in to ensure all kids benefited from the new funding. That’s the principal’s job, although the dad could have been more inclusive. There seemed to be blame enough to go around.

Because the dad is getting some well-deserved blame, I’ll give equal time to the PTA president. TBH the PTA president seemed a bit whiny and sulky, not even showing up to a key funding meeting. It seemed like she had this comfy thing going, but the school was failing and would have probably disappeared in a few years—there were only 35 kids in a class meant for 100, for Pete’s sake. I  get that the PTA president didn’t think she’d like the funding arrangements. But that’s no excuse to stay home sulking. As PTA president it was her JOB to attend meetings like this, precisely to make sure all kids benefitted from the funding.

Spanish immersion instead? Could be. But as the author mentions at the start, Cobble Hill residents have 11-12 local schools to choose from, and I’d bet one of them is Spanish immersion. My cousins live on Cobble Hill and I believe there’s also an Arabic immersion program somewhere in Brooklyn, although I don’t know if Cobble Hill is eligible (my cousins went private).

What I really wanted to know—and which the show never said—was whether all kids benefited in some way from the new funding, even if they didn’t do French. Did the science teacher get the new microscopes, did the gym teacher get the new uniforms, that were mentioned at the beginning of the program? Did kids who didn’t do the French part still benefit from the introduction of the IB program, which could be done with Spanish if the school just kept on the Spanish teacher? The show mentions one kid who doesn’t fit into a French after school play, but were there other acting opportunities? We don’t get ANY of these answers from the broadcast.[/quote]

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