Eric Adams is putting NYC’s kids second by sticking migrants in school gyms


Samantha Clark is PTA co-president of PS 172, Beacon College of Excellence, the fitness center of which might be used as a migrant shelter.

“Mommy, why are they taking away our fitness center?”

For my 5-year-old son, no query is simply too huge or sophisticated — even at 6:30 a.m.

My reply is what our small Brooklyn elementary college has been grappling with since Sunday, when dad and mom acquired a type letter saying that our tiny fitness center was turning into a shelter because of the inflow of asylum seekers.

This fitness center has just one adult-sized rest room and 0 showers.

It has an energetic development zone that creates an evacuation security situation within the fitness center.

And it’s linked to our principal college constructing, which is so overutilized and determined for house that we’re utilizing storage closets as remedy areas.

Faculties shouldn’t be used as shelters for asylum seekers. Interval.

Youngsters come to high school to study, play and develop.

Unfair to everybody

Asylum seekers come to this nation for an opportunity at a greater life.

Neither are served by a constructing surrounded by energetic development and lacking primary sanitation for adults.

It’s unfair to everybody concerned, and it’s not a sacrifice that our mayor ought to ask anybody to make.


The City of New York is planning to house migrants from other countries inside a gym at P.S. #172 in Sunset Park.
Town has begun organising cots in a number of gyms.
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Our college is already straight throughout the road from an asylum shelter, and whereas we now have labored to supply a heat and compassionate welcome, our sources and infrastructure are feeling the strain.

We’d like Mayor Adams to search out alternate websites for asylum seekers — ones which can be secure and have age-appropriate services, however extra vital, ones that aren’t concentrated in the identical neighborhoods, like Sundown Park.

If New York Metropolis is really a sanctuary metropolis as Mayor Adams so proudly professes, why are solely sure areas bearing the burden and never others?

What sort of sanctuary are we offering after we’re utilizing elementary colleges with out the house or capacity to let somebody bathe?

We deserve respect

Additionally, as dad and mom, we have to be handled with the respect we deserve when the town makes main selections involving our youngsters.

At our faculty, we now have had little to no communication from the mayor’s workplace or the Division of Schooling with reference to our faculty’s state of affairs.

Representatives that we handle to talk to say they’re given no data both —apparently nobody is aware of what’s happening or how one can handle it.

We’d like clear, well timed data in order that we will make the most effective selections for the kids that rely upon us.

Our nation’s immigration disaster is a fancy situation, however not less than I understand how to reply my son: “Asylum seekers are right here as a result of they want our assist.

We’d like our leaders to search out the suitable, secure approach to try this. And that’s not placing a shelter in our faculty fitness center.”