From the New Jersey Star-Ledger:
It’s like a jungle, some students say. Barringer High School in Newark is out of control.
Inside the three-story building of about 1,300 students, rats and roaches roam the hallways. So do random trespassers, students complain: about 29 different doors lead inside the school, which anyone can enter. At least a dozen different gangs recruit students. Last month, authorities said a 17-year-old boy sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl inside a classroom after school.
Students say Barringer is not only dangerous, it’s disorganized. Several weeks into the school year, almost none of them had correct class schedules.
Dozens of frustrated students recently walked out. Their protest during school hours was organized on Facebook, where a large number of student comments called for the return of the former principal, Jose Aviles. The current principal has been on sick leave, according to the district, but resigned Friday and will now be replaced.
Barringer once graduated prestigious alumni like Newark poet Amiri Baraka, Congressman Donald Payne and former U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan. But now it’s just another example of a large urban school failing miserably. Its students are the unlucky ones who didn’t get into charter or magnet schools.
Read the whole depressing editorial here. We think the parents should explore a class-action lawsuit against city officials and the teachers’ union. Sure, there is probably some sovereign immunity for the officials, but how much more of this can we stomach.
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