Sunset Park students urge DOE to keep two schools separate
When Madeline Sturgill transferred to Sunset Park High School(SPHS) this February, she had already attended two different highschools in Brooklyn and, by her own admission, didn’t care aboutschool and had a zero average.
But in five short months, the bubbly 10th grader has turned heracademic career around, thriving on the individual attention fromteachers and counselors, and forming friendships in the close-knitstudent body. She now has a 90 average and a starring role in anupcoming school theater production.
Since I enrolled in SPHS, I found a family in other studentsand so much support from my teachers, said Sturgill, who, alongwith pals Jonathan Cournier, Elizabeth Palmer and CamilleLiverpool, spoke at the June 21 public hearing on the Department ofEducation’s (DOE) proposal to continue housing Brooklyn ProspectCharter School inside their building for another school year.