For many low-income students, the summer before their first year of college is nerve wracking. Between endless paperwork and financial aid, some never go.
Some blasted NYC’s move to screen all students’ social-emotional skills using an assessment called DESSA. This Brooklyn school has learned to embrace it.
Even after a classmate brought a loaded gun to school in his backpack last week, school officials were on hand to quickly de-escalate the situation and comfort students. But when something happens on Ineiry Peña’s 40-minute commute back and forth between her Bushwick home, she’s on her own.
Among the items students brought Thursday to the 1,000-student Adams Street campus in downtown Brooklyn were nine knives, seven pepper spray canisters, four stun guns and one set of brass knuckles, according to school safety sources.