Some Kids Didn't Know School Was Closed Yesterday

This week, NYC's millions of public school students returned to class on Wednesday...only to stay at home yesterday and today, due to the Jewish holidays. The one-day school week was ridiculed and even boycotted by some parents. But then there are the parents didn't know their kids didn't have school.

The Daily News staked out schools in Sunset Park and Borough Park, where they found at least three families who brought their kids to school, even though the Department of Education said school announcements were made and translated letters were put in backpacks for parents. One woman told the News, "I thought there was school today. I forgot to check the calendar," while one father said no one told his second-grade student daughter. And, "One family was standing outside PS 169 in Sunset Park, completely bewildered. JzaDong Tang clutched the family's Chinese passports. 'We did not know there was no school,' said XzaoLz Tang, whose sister XzaoQzng, 11, is enrolled at PS 169."

Only 77% of students showed up to school on Wednesday; the News adds, "Fewer than two-thirds of students in school districts covering East New York, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville showed up."

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By Jen Chung in News on September 10, 2010 11:20 AM

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OhMy

I'd rather have kids showing up when there isn't school than not showing up when there is. There's a lot more of the latter going on.

dogbraincatscan

Can someone please tell me why THIS was included in the article?

"JzaDong Tang clutched the family's Chinese passports."

Radtard

woah those names read like mad scrabble points

Mr. Know-It-All

If you look at the bigger picture, it's not such a fail. When in doubt, the Asian kids show up. East New York, Bed-Stuy, and Brownsville, on the other hand, are no-shows on the first day of school. Guess who's going to MIT and who's staying in the 'hood.

iswiftny2000

I think we can both agree that YOU aren't going to MIT either...

Mr. Know-It-All

Aw, aren't you clever. Did you actually have a point to make?

Guest

nerds FAIL

valeriob

Do you realize how many scrabble points that girls name is worth?

Eric

Hahaha, oh my god best comment of the day. Reminds me of that Simpsons episode "quijibo - a big dumb balding North American ape".

hotstepper

ha!

valeriob

Proper name rule notwithstanding;

XzaoQzng is worth 45 points. Use all your letters on a triple word score with Z on a triple letter and it's a whopping 245 points. I loves me some scrabble.

JacqueMehoff

so for their next story, they'll camp out at homes of student's who didn't know there were supposed to be school on that day.

Rocknrope

Gee, I wonder why they didn't know there was no school yesterday?

hotstepper

i wonder why public schools take off jewish holidays? do they also take off for Govardhan Puja? will they observe Losar? or perhaps the ritual of Samhain?