New York Post

B'KLYN HS HAS FAILED MY KID

Mom on mission over poor test scores

- By SUSAN EDELMAN susan.edelman@nypost.com

An outraged mom is pleading with her son’s Brooklyn high school: Please educate my child!

Annette Renaud, PTA president at the Secondary School for Journalism in Park Slope, is furious that her son got grades of 85 to 95 on his class work but failed Regents exams in the same subjects.

“He wasn’t educated,” she said. “He can’t compete with students at Millennium, Brooklyn Tech or Stuyvesant. It’s a joke.”

She says conditions are bad at the school, with one teacher allegedly selling jewelry instead of holding lessons and another frying doughnuts and leaving to do his laundry.

Just 17 percent of last year’s graduates at the 267student school were deemed collegerea­dy.

Last month, Renaud sent a petition signed by 24 students to Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña alleging that Earthscien­ce teacher Joy Finerson Adu had failed to conduct most of the staterequi­red 1,200 minutes of handson labs.

“She does other things, like sell jewelry in the class, but no instructio­n has taken place,” it reads.

In April, FinersonAd­u allegedly peddled bling on school time, while parent coordinato­r Susan Stein sold Aerosoles footwear at a “shoe party” for staff.

“They weren’t fundraiser­s, but for personal profit,” Renaud said.

Principal Eileen Coppola has offered to let FinersonAd­u’s students retake the class if they fail the Regents this month.

FinersonAd­u refused to comment.

Renaud also blew the whistle on Jason Slabodsky, who teaches general and specialed math though certified only in specialed social studies.

Among her complaints: Slabodsky gave class credit

He wasn’t educated. He can’t compete with students at Millennium, Brooklyn Tech or Stuyvesant. It’s a joke.

— Annette Renaud (right), PTA president at the Secondary School for Journalism

to kids who did chores such as pushing an iPad cart.

Most of his students have failed the math Regents, Renaud found.

Slabodsky “set up a restaurant deep fryer with boiling oil to make doughnuts during class,” she reported, adding that a student fight broke out during one pastry session.

Slabodsky, who lives nearby, used prep periods to do laundry or walk his dog, Renaud said.

He did not return a call for comment.

The Department of Education is investigat­ing both teachers, a spokesman said.

Renaud’s crusade has gotten some traction.

Last year, the site Humans of New York posted her lament that the principal at the time, Jodi Radwell, had fired the school’s Spanish teacher, leaving students unable to fill the foreignlan­guage requiremen­t for an Advanced Regents diploma. The post went viral.

Radwell was replaced.

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