outside in brooklyn. school is still in session. prompting parents to keep their kids home. bill: nate foye is live in brooklyn. what are you hearing there? good morning. good morning. you can see parents are protesting at ps172 for a second straight day. after a pta meeting last night, many parents are holding a no-show protest holding kids home from school until this policy is reversed. this comes after yesterday where the pta co-president tells me 30% of the school was absent. 142 kids did not show up to school. i m joined now by rosie. she is a concerned grandmother. you have a grandson that goes to the school. you were at the pta meeting last night. what happened at that meeting? many questions were asked by the parents. we didn t get no concrete answers at all. we don t have no information. the mayor s office had a representative at that meeting. what did he say about your concern? most of the time he said he didn t know. he was not sure. no answers at all.
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