School zoning proposal In Bensonhurst draws ire
With kindergarten enrollment for the 2012-2013 school yearstarting in two short months, the Department of Education (DOE) andSchool District 20 have unveiled their zoning proposals for thearea – the district is the second most crowded in the city — andbegun the public hearing process, during which parents andeducators voice their concerns or support.
This year, with multiple major rezonings being pursued -including the creation of a zone for currently non-zoned P.S. 748in order to relieve existing and anticipated overcrowding at nearbyP.S. 200 and P.S. 163 – the comments are flooding in.
I would like to express my displeasure at P.S. 748 being turnedinto a zoned school from an application school, said Monica Weiss,one of the many parents from P.S. 748 who spoke at the November 9meeting of Community Education Council 20. We’ve all chosen to beat P.S. 748. Overcrowding is not a new problem… How can I explainto my [younger] daughter that she can’t go to school with her older[sibling]? Will [my older one] not get the same quality educationas now?