BOYCOTT ON DOE!!!

Hello Parents,

On February 9th the Policy of Education Panel (PEP) will vote on the Truncation of our school.

We as concerned parents will take a stand and send a message to Mayor Bloomberg and the PEP panel that we will not sit back anymore and allow them to make decisions regarding our children without engaging us as parents first and allow us to make the decision for our children's education.

So I propose that on February 6th 2012 we boycott Mayor Bloomberg and the DOE by not allowing our children to attend school for the day.  We the PTA Executive board have been working on getting local Church's in the area to get to garner support in this effort.  We understand that most parent's have to work and are not able to sit home with their children on that day.  So I've reached out to Pastor Baccus of Full Gospel Assembly who has agreed to open the doors of the church to allow us to have our children sit in the church during regular school hours.  This will not be a free day for our children.  We have partnered with the SLT Chairman @ P.S. 161 Mr. Rivette and other teacher's who have agreed to provide the children with extended school work which they will complete during that day.

We will have several parent volunteer's who will assist us with monitoring the children, including myself and the rest of the PTA executive board. Any other parent volunteer's are welcome.  All we ask is for parents to provide lunch for your children on that day, and have them arrive in full P.S. 161 uniform.

There will be local media coverage regarding this boycott!!

Full Gospel Assembly is located on Sullivan Place between Bedford avenue and Stoddard Place.(right around the corner by the closed down KFC on Bedford )

Our original date for this boycott was February 1st.  We believe there was more planning involved and we wanted this event to be very effective, that's why we decided to push it out to February 6th.

If you are willing to participate in this organized boycott, please let us know asap so we can plan the proper amount of parent volunteer coverage for that day.

PTA Contact #: 1-646-470-4622