Congrats to P.S. 9 !

Is there a website that tells you --- if you put in your address --- what public school your kid would go to?

cool for the kids in the hood. and yay for quiglet hehe.

now i know where the litter bugs come from. i never knew the name of the school close to my building ;p. always get them candy wrappers after school .

Subject: Re: PS 9 gangs?

Bricktop wrote: Big bunches of rough-looking kids, middle schoolers I guess, come down to Vanderbilt after getting out of PS9 each day. Twice groups of these kids surrounded my somewhat younger middle-school age son and harrassed him on the B65 on Bergen Street after they got on right below Vanderbilt. The other afternoon around 3:30 I went to get the bus there and a student waiting for the bus too, a girl, pointed up the groups of rough kids on the corner and said that there are gangs at the school, and that it's a dangerous place.

My question is: why aren't there cops on surrounding corners when this school lets out?

what have school officials said when you asked this question of them?

Subject: Re: PS 9 gangs?

Bricktop wrote: Big bunches of rough-looking kids, middle schoolers I guess, come down to Vanderbilt after getting out of PS9 each day. Twice groups of these kids surrounded my somewhat younger middle-school age son and harrassed him on the B65 on Bergen Street after they got on right below Vanderbilt. The other afternoon around 3:30 I went to get the bus there and a student waiting for the bus too, a girl, pointed up the groups of rough kids on the corner and said that there are gangs at the school, and that it's a dangerous place.

My question is: why aren't there cops on surrounding corners when this school lets out?

There is also a middle school on Sterling and Vanderbilt, that may be where the problem is emanating from. I see those kids in the morning on the way to Grand Army Plaza, and some do look like a rough bunch, rowdy and what-not.

I have a pre-k kid in PS.9 and all the times we have run into the older children in the play yard, or in the street they have been nice to my little one.

Subject: Re: PS 9 gangs?

Bricktop wrote: Big bunches of rough-looking kids, middle schoolers I guess, come down to Vanderbilt after getting out of PS9 each day. Twice groups of these kids surrounded my somewhat younger middle-school age son and harrassed him on the B65 on Bergen Street after they got on right below Vanderbilt. The other afternoon around 3:30 I went to get the bus there and a student waiting for the bus too, a girl, pointed up the groups of rough kids on the corner and said that there are gangs at the school, and that it's a dangerous place.

My question is: why aren't there cops on surrounding corners when this school lets out?

If you notice there is usually a police car that sits on Bergen between Underhill and Vanderbilt when the kids get out. Not every day but most of the time.

The principal of this middle school is really, really trying to make the school a better place. Unfortunately there is a problem with gangs among the junior high kids. After an incident in the schoolyard there was a meeting in which a representative from the NYPD came to inform us of this. (FYI the police officer also told us that the McDonalds on Vanderbilt is a place where some of these gangs are temping the younger kids). Because of this - you can see the principal out there every morning walking a few blocks here and there and checking the McDonalds to make sure that the children come to school and are not hanging out.

I suggest you introduce yourself and talk to her about the problem you had - she is extremely approachable.

Old Time Brooklyn wrote: How is PS9? My daughter may need to go there.

gosh, you make it sound like a punishment.

We've been looking at many many schools in the area for our youngest who will be entering pre-k in the fall. my (much) older kids went to 321. We've been happy overall with what we saw and heard at 9 and are planning to send our son there.