What Jamie DeJesus Didn’t Tell Bay Ridge About The School At Nathan’s In Dyker Heights
Jamie DeJesus is a writer for Brooklyn Reporter. He wrote a limited article about 100 seats being added to schools for children with special needs in our community. Isn’t that sad that an article needs to be written like that?
Wouldn’t it have been awesome if DeJesus took Brannan’s press release about these seats and took the view of “What happens if 103 seats are needed?” The truth is those 3 students would be told there is no room at their local school and they would need to go to another school. That’s what happens now to many families.
Jamie DeJesus left out a lot of important information about the new school being built at 650 – 86th Street – formerly, Nathan’s.
DeJesus is a father, but he didn’t write about the safety issues that are a main concern for many parents in Bay Ridge. (See here)
When Community Board 10 members tried to discuss this at a meeting, they were told that a safety report would done and changes would be made, but a safety report with these changes has not been shown to the community. Not one politician has addressed these concerns.
Jamie DeJesus also failed to tell the community how this deal went down. Papers outside our community wrote about the deal. (Info here and here) The person deciding where a public school belongs in our community doesn’t have a child in public school!
A second property on 5th Avenue in Bay Ridge has also been purchased with the same seller. Why are lobbyists deciding where schools are placed in our community?
Previously, Brannan said there was no deals behind the school. Megan McGoldrick was first to write about it for the Brooklyn Eagle (See here)
Jamie DeJesus also failed to write about the hotel that is being built next to Nathans. Councilman Brannan told this community that a hotel wasn’t being built next to the school, but it is. (See here) People are concerned that this will change into a homeless shelter as many hotels have in Brooklyn. A recent bill in NYS was made into law that makes it possible for this to happen. (Andrew Gounardes voted for this) (Info here)
DeJesus doesn’t live in this community, so he isn’t taking the time to interview parents or tell us the real issues that are happening. Politicians pressers reign in our area – that’s why I write here.
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Hugs,
marlene
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