"No child left behind" reason school didn't call 911 for young stroke victim.

[Swede]

In February, Jamaica High School was placed on the city's impact list of dangerous schools. Some staffers said they felt penalized for honestly reporting crime. They also said they felt pressured to drive down the stats.

Seemingly to that end, Guy Venezia, the assistant principal for security, sent the one-line memo to the school's deans on April 12, instructing them not to call 911.

"We said, this is going to blow up in your face. You really don't want to do this," said one of the deans, who asked to remain anonymous. "We knew this was a disaster in the making."

Just 15 days later, 14-year-old Mariya began vomiting in class about 7:20 a.m. She was taken to the main office. According to Carlton and a lawsuit filed in Queens Supreme Court, 911 wasn't called until 8:54 a.m.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/09/10/2007-09-10_how_queens_school_failed_mariya_fatima_a-2.html

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. So...a child DIED to keep the stats down?

How fucking sick is this?

[k8conant]

2. She didn't DIE but that doesn't excuse this

it's still horrendous

[Mnemosyne]

3. No Peggy, she didn't die, but is disabled now:

Mariya, who lost use of her right hand and leg, has had to relearn how to speak and walk since the stroke.

She's receiving home instruction, but her reading skills have dropped to a fifth-grade level.

"I want to go back ," she recently told the Daily News. "I feel lonely."


Still fucking disgusting to know idiots like these are watching over our kids. :grr:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I guess I should have read the whole story, huh?

Thanks for updating me...:blush:

And, yeah, I'm still angry too...

[Mnemosyne]

5. How pitiful this country is becoming. So much

for my almost lifetime delusion that America was honorable.

The ride is going to get pretty bumpy I fear. :hug:

:hi:

[Swede]

6. She didn't die Peg.

But she is effed up.

[awoke_in_2003]

7. Totally off topic

but how'd ya like that game last week? Just kidding, can't wait til the Browns get their stuff together. I remember the good old days when the Steelers/Browns games were always good, and I miss them.

[TahitiNut]

8. Gotta love that "factory method" educamashun system, huh?

Where's the ISO 9000 for schools?

:eyes:

[orleans]

9. keeping our children safe--NOT

[hedgehog]

10. There is no indication that a school nurse was involved.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

11. no child left behind is not the reason.

that guy being a fuckwit, and nobody ignoring his directive is the reason. (But no child left behind still sucks.)