Mom blasts school: Educate my son!

Mom blasts school: Educate my son!, An insulted mother is begging her child's Brooklyn secondary school: Please instruct my youngster!

Annette Renaud, PTA president at the Secondary School for Journalism in Park Slope, is incensed that her child got evaluations of 85 to 95 on his class work yet fizzled Regents exams in the same subjects.

"He wasn't instructed," she said. "He can't rival understudies at Millennium, Brooklyn Tech or Stuyvesant. It's a joke."

She says conditions are awful at the school, with one instructor purportedly offering adornments as opposed to holding lessons and another browning doughnuts and leaving to do his clothing.

Only 17 percent of a year ago's graduates at the 267-understudy school were esteemed school prepared.

A month ago, Renaud sent a request marked by 24 understudies to Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña affirming that Earth-science instructor Joy Finerson-Adu had neglected to lead the vast majority of the state-obliged 1,200 minutes of hands-on labs.

"She does different things, similar to offer gems in the class, however no direction has occurred," it peruses.

In April, Finerson-Adu professedly sold bling on educational time, while guardian facilitator Susan Stein sold Aerosoles footwear at a "shoe party" for staff.

"They weren't reserve raisers, yet for individual benefit," Renaud said.

Important Eileen Coppola has offered to let Finerson-Adu's understudies retake the class on the off chance that they come up short the ­Regents this month.

Finerson-Adu declined to remark.

Renaud likewise blew the shriek on Jason Slabodsky, who shows general and specialized curriculum math however guaranteed just in a specialized curriculum social studies.

Among her grievances: Slabodsky gave class credit to children who did tasks, for example, pushing an iPad truck.

The greater part of his understudies have fizzled the math ­Regents, Renaud found.

Slabodsky "set up an eatery profound fryer with bubbling oil to make doughnuts amid class," she ­reported, including that an understudy battle broke out amid one cake session.

Slabodsky, who lives adjacent, utilized prep periods to do clothing or walk his canine, Renaud said.

He didn't give back a call for input.

The Department of Education is exploring both educators, a representative said.

Renaud's campaign has gotten some footing.

A year ago, the site Humans of New York posted her regret that the key at the time, Jodi Radwell, had let go the school's Spanish educator, leaving understudies not able to fill the remote dialect prerequisite for an Advanced Regents certificate. The post turned into a web sensat
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