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As we mentioned, City Councilman Charles Barron held his press conference yesterday to announce his candidacy for the 2009 Brooklyn Borough Presidency. He told the crowds that his platform included affordable housing, health care accessibility, more jobs, standing up to developers who use eminent domain, ending mayor control of schools and more would help everyone. "Am I going to be a borough president for all the people? Absolutely. But I'm letting y'all know now, I'm taking care of black folk. Unapologetically."

A $750,000 real estate commission? Gothamist is so totally in the wrong business! A real estate broker is suing two brokers and owner of a building leased to the Department of Education claiming that she was discriminated against because she was Muslim and thereby lost out on a fee. Ihsan Amatullah says she first showed the East 76th Street Sotheby's warehouse where the Department of Education has its Eleanor Roosevelt High School, but that City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz, head of the council's Education Committee, sent the deal to a "personal friend" broker Peter Berman. Amatullah says that Moskowitz "refused to have a person of Islamic faith broker the lease." Moskowitz, who is not named in the lawsuit, denies that anything like that happened, and Berman's lawyer tells the Post, "There is not one scintilla of truth to any of this."

Eva Moskowitz, City Council Member

Probably feeling that an anti-bullying bill needs a counterpart, the City Council may be considering a "bill of rights" for bullies. Education Committee chair Eva Moskowitz contends that detained kids (juvenile delinquents) don't get good educations and even up falling through the cracks. It would be interesting if the the Department of Education and, well, the NYPD/Department of Corrections, can figure out a way to make that work. Gothamist was struck by these stats that the Post noted: While 1200 school age students come back after spending time in upstate jails, less than a third return to school; plus, it costs about $130,000/year to detain a juvenile offender, versus $13,000/year to educate a NYC public school student.

Mr. Meer said that after he complained to the principal, toilet paper holders were installed, but that they were difficult to use because the paper did not flow freely.The photograph at top left is of Mr. Meer and a toilet paper holder; it was taken by Newsday's Alejandra Villa and was accompanied by the imcomparable caption, "" Delores Allen, with great-granddaughters at PS 184, wore some toilet paper around her neck, because some school children are given "rolls on a string to wear around their necks" since toilet paper is guarded, lest it be used for play. She said, "It's degrading to children that they have to go back to their classrooms with their little bottoms soiled." Dude, Gothamist is totally going as a NYC public school student for Halloween next year: Spongebob t-shirt, toilet paper around the neck.

toilet paper, soap, and paper towels are not making it from point A to point B."

This reminds Gothamist of a story from the start of this year where many students admitted they "hold it" and don't go to the bathroom at school. Semi relatedly, the Mayor unveiled a solid waste management plan last week.

Bad bathrooms are not limited to NYC public schools: Modesto has similar, if not as dire, problems. Hazards of not taking enough bathroom breaks and bathroom worries for kids.