This item blends three items of interest: public school, community boards and, well, cockroaches. It comes from an email posted to the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association list and concerns the auditorium at PS 32 in Carroll Gardens, which is often the site of Community Board 6 and other neighborhood meetings. Here’s what it says in the original all caps style:
WHOEVER ATTENDED THE MEETING AT PS 32’S- WATCH FOR THE COLD WEATHER- IF YOU GO AGAIN- WATCH YOU DO NOT BRING HOME – ROACHES- YES- AT THE BACK ACROSS THE AISLE- ROACHES WERE WALKING – MIKE SAW THEM- HE WARNED A WOMAN- WHO WAS SITTING- SHE SCREECHED- DO NOT PUT HANDBAGS, DUFFELS,ETC- ON THE FLOOR – INVASION OF ROACHES
With school starting on Tuesday, perhaps the school custodial staff wants to get the exterminators to pay a visit.
3 responses so far ↓
1 elizabeth // Aug 31, 2008 at 12:14 pm
as a teacher who has worked in several public schools throughout the city be assured that every building has roaches (the biggest I have ever seen) and more. I was once in a HS science lab with mice scampering around the room.
2 Frank // Aug 31, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Yea are you kidding every place has roaches.
3 Pre K Teacher // Sep 1, 2008 at 10:31 pm
As a second teacher to post here, I have seen cockroaches too as well as mice and (and many other small. things like lice)!
Since I teach Pre-K, and these yucky critters are crawling all over the same floor the kids are sitting/lying/frolicking/LEARNING!! on, I really think it’s high time Mayor Bloomberg hires reputable exterminator to keep the children of NYC (as well as the teachers and general staff of our schools) safer from all the diseases these creepy crawlies carry.
Landlords and restaurants are required to get rid of these unsanitary critters for their tenants….wouldn’t you think school age children deserve at least as much?
Pre-K Teacher