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Information Session Offers Details About New Area High Schools
While there has been much talk about the phasing out of the classes held at two local high schools - Canarsie and South Shore High School - (Tilden High School was also affected but a few new schools there are already operational) - some parents and students were still uncertain about what that meant and educational alternatives that would be offered. The Information Session was scheduled to provide the community with an opportunity to inquire about the pending changes. This fall, Wilkins noted, Canarsie High School will be broken down into three smaller schools at the Rockaway Parkway campus. The smaller schools each have a distinctive purpose to build vocational skills and college preparedness. The High School for Innovation in Advertising & Media focuses on advertising careers, The High School for Medical Professions is technology based as well, but gears students toward exploring health related professions. The Urban Action Academy centers on community activism through project-based interdisciplinary classes designed to foster good citizenship. This fall, South Shore, which currently houses the Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School and the Victory Collegiate Academy, will add the Academy for Conservation & the Environment, which wants to "create a community of learners and leaders." The school will empower students to become pro-active in creating a healthier environment for themselves and others. "When students have the opportunity to do these things, they feel empowered...their math scores go up, their reading scores go up, because they are engaged," said Michelle Askin, the proposed principal of the Academy for Conservation & the Environment. After the session, parents and students were invited into the gymnasium where representatives from individual schools talked one-on-one with parents and students and provided answers to an array of questions and concerns. Abe Correa, School Leader for the Urban Action Academy, was eager to meet with the student population in particular shared that he saw the implementation of these new smaller high schools as a new beginning for Canarsie. Joseph Scarmato, the School Leader for the High School for Medical Professions agreed. "We're not 'shutting down,'" he explained. "We're remodeling...and the doors are wide open." See related stroy on Page 2.
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