Students send vulgar letters disputing Post story about ‘hellhole’ school

With a teacher’s encouragement, seventh-graders in a social-studies class at JHS 80 used their city-issued laptops last week to e-mail letters to The Post to protest a report about their school that cited discipline problems, hazardous conditions, and administrators who try to cover up violent incidents.

But mention me one school that doesn’t have fights, mention me a building that doesn’t have any insets and rats in it, mention me a school that had not improve after seven years.

Is this an english as a second language school??

You have to realize that about 50% of the teachers - including the better, well-meaning ones - are so poorly educated that they can’t even recognize a grammatical or spelling error or simply bad manners.

When I went through the NYC public school system, our teachers on the whole may not have been brilliant (although some were great), but they had at least basic skills. In recent times, NYC has had to retest large numbers of teachers every year (and basically “adapt” their test scores by some metric I don’t understand) because they fail basic proficiency exams.

The kids have problems, yes, but the real fault lies with the teachers and, most of all, with the administrators.

I went to High School in NYC in the late 70’s....a Bronx public School. At the time probably 80% of the teachers were well educated, well read, well spoken Jewish people whose mindset was cemented by their parents.....well versed in the holocaust, the depression, and the days of child labor and the Robber Barron’s in U.S. History. They had no hope whatsoever of recognizing the commie scourge. They were not alone...most Americans didn’t understand the real threat either, at that time. Everyone was busy laughing at the “ignorance” of Archie Bunker on TV! I remember one African American Student teacher in our “Health” class. She was functionally illiterate. About to graduate with a B.S. in Education, but illiterate. She tried to teach us about Hormones. She pronounced the term as “Horomes” and spelled it on the blackboard as she pronounced it...”Horomes”. I remember the white students looking at each other in disbelief....we were being educated all about “Horomes” by a NYC public school teacher. I’m quite certain she had a very successful and rewarding career in NYC public education. At the time, an in my naivete, I presumed it was an ironic “quirk”. Little did I realize at the time it was a harbinger of our Nations future.

When I took the L.A.S.T. teacher comprehensive exam, I got a perfect 300 score on the essay writing part. Thank goodness I learned grammar, sentence structure, spelling, etc. when I was in elementary school. They don't even teach that stuff any more, it's pretty obvious. Can you imagine a college essay written in texting language? I'm sure quite a few have been submitted just like that. Pathetic!

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