Civic Center

I want be clear about this school. Do not, under any circumstances send your kids there and if you are a teacher do not look for employment at that school. You will regret about it for the rest of your life because this school can and will destroy your career.Students are horrendous and the administrators are mean nasty and not helpful at all. They will place all burden on you and they will blame you for everything. Every little thing will result as a letter in your file. No matter what you do you will be rated as ineffective.I really hope and keep my finger crossed that this school will be closed forever soon. I have never seen such miserable and unhappy teachers in my entire life. Bloomberg had destroyed a very good school. In 2009 this school had about 2.500 students and over 100 teachers. Right now it barely has 200 kids and about 37 teachers.I forgot to mention the support stuff such as guy who makes copies and secretary who is mean and useless often times. Plus securities who usually do nothing as well.I forgot to mention a principal who has only three years of teaching experience and assistant principal who was teaching in Elementary school and she has no experience working with high school students. Principal only walks around and tries to take students phones and says that she is not happy 90% of the time, meanwhile assistant principal keeps writing ineffective observations to most of the teachers.You need to pass 80% of the kids you teach, otherwise you will have to write and explanation why students are not passing.

Teachers are very supportive and most make thenselves available to their students. As a parent I have found that most are easily reachable and the school principal is quite accessible and has always responsive to any concerns that I have brought to his attention.