Crown Heights Parents Call For Boycott at P.S. 161
By Mary Frost
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
CROWN HEIGHTS — Parents at P.S. 161 (“The Crown”) in Crown Heights are calling for a one-day school boycott for this Monday to protest the city’s plan to phase out the school’s middle school grades, leaving just the elementary school.
P.S. 161’s PTA President Demetrius Lawrence told the Brooklyn Eagle that the plan to close the middle school just doesn’t make sense. “We just got a new principal who has implemented a new program; there’s a new school leadership team in place, and a new superintendent.”