Video by Angel Gonzalez
Public Hearing March 12
Statement made by
Kelson Maynard:
I have been in this school
Satellite Academy for 28 years.
I don’t understand. I
don’t understand how the educational theory is going to improve the quality of
education. I have not encountered an explanation, and yet that is the principle
in which this decision is being made.
Currently, I share a classroom because
there isn’t enough space. We are being told by people who have not been to the
school that we have too much space. Something is wrong with that logic.
I want to know, Why is it that we in this community here have to confront this kind of problem, that Bronx Science, Stuyvesant, etc would not have to
confront. Is this class warfare? Why are we being dumped on?
Many of us have
died for something called democracy.
We are looking to see if those
lives are
in vain.
Because hear me out!
Expressing ourselves and the decisions are supposed to be democratic decision-making.
Let's see if that were to be obtained here after this meeting this afternoon or if it is a cynical process and this proposal has already been confirmed.
Since I have been here,
there have been two schools that are constant: Satellite Academy and Bronx Regional. Now a plan is being concocted to do
irreparable damage to these two programs. Why is that? Why is the DOE doing
this plan with such a deleterious effect as you have already heard?
I am pretty confident that the
education that the well-to-do get, the education that students get in some parts of
Westchester and other places are as different, the special arrangement is different and students have a different
experience, but we are supposed to be crowded like cockroaches and we are
supposed to get an education to compete with those same students who come out of
schools from the Upper West Side from Westchester with superior facilities superior resources.
Because of what students demonstrated
tonight: they dropped out because the school system that they were apart of did
not work. And now that we have something that works, DOE and SUNY say we must
change that. Many of our students graduated from SUNY!
We have a safe building,
we do not have metal detectors. The program that will come in by default will…
How are we supposed to be and feel comfortable with this apparatus? Something
has to stop. We will see if what our voices have to say are heard, if this is
the home of brave land of the free or not.
Something has to be done.
The
nonsense has to stop.
You must give our children a
chance to be successful.
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