For those of you following the very emphatic Facebook page of THIS IS IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, you know that the class of 1990 and friends of Sheepshead Bay High School alumni are planning a special summer get together and reunion for anyone who graduated from the school.
The event will have a sports spin with a planned basketball game. Here is the information in a cut-and-paste from the Facebook page (date clarification added). There is also a mingling party planned at TGIF restaurant in Sheepshead Bay the night before the reunion. There’s not much time left to pay the entrance fee, unless you use the PayPal payment option.
Check out the details of the Sheepshead Bay High School gathering
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We haven’t been able to confirm it, but GerritsenBeach.net is reporting that Sheepshead Bay High School, John Dewey High School, William E. Grady High School, and FDR High School are set to close by the end of 2010.
We first wrote in November that administrators were considering Sheepshead Bay H.S. (3000 Avenue X) for closure, but at the time the principal denied the claims. Since then, the city’s list of “persistently lowest achieving” high schools swelled from about a dozen to 34, including the addition of the three other southern Brooklyn high schools.
The list of targets was created as part of a proposal for Race to the Top, a federal grant program aimed at encouraging states to be aggressive in fixing or closing their lowest performing schools. New York State stands to gain about $500,000 for every school it reforms using one of the federal government’s four models. New York Times describes them as follows:
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City officials released this year’s school progress reports, grading Sheepshead Bay High School a C, down from a B last year. The decrease partially reflects a rise in the raw score necessary to receive an A or a B. Only 75 percent of high schools received an A or a B, down from 83 percent in 2008.
Progress reports for high schools are determined by evaluating schools’ credit accumulation rates, graduation rates, and the percentage of students who pass the Regents exams.
Earlier this month, state officials suggested Sheepshead Bay High School for inclusion on a list of about a dozen city schools targeted for charter takeover, and the decreased grade may add more fuel to the fire. The state plan follows the lead of Mayor Bloomberg and School Chancellor Joel Klein of dismantling large, low-performing schools and turning them into small, privately run charter schools sharing facilities. Continue Reading »
We reported last night about a shooting in the Nostrand Housing Projects at 3023 Avenue X.
The Daily News is reporting that the 17-year-old victim, a Sheepshead Bay High School student, was caught in the crossfire as the gunman’s intended target ran past her into the building. Although the victim’s identity has not yet been verified by authorities, the Daily News says neighbors identified her as Kathy Young, a freshman at the school located just across the street from the incident. Neighbors also say the girl’s mother died recently.
Young is currently in stable condition at Kings County Hospital and is expected to recover from her wounds. There is still no word on whether the suspect is in custody.
A female student from Sheepshead Bay High School was shot around 3:30pm today. The incident occurred near her family’s apartment in the Nostrand Housing Projects (3023 Avenue X).
The 17-year-old’s injuries are not believed to be life threatening. She was shot just before entering the building, witnesses say, after returning from a trip to the store. Police locked down the building for almost two hours to investigate, but there has been no word about a suspect.
This is a developing story, and we’ll try to follow up on the incident as more information becomes available.
[via ABC News]
Last month, after learning about The Armory, where Sheepshead Bay High School students participated in track meets, I visited the place in Washington Heights.
The facility was a well-kept Harlem gem and inside there was a professional running track for practice and meets. Outside on the street nearby, I had my own little track and field qualifying meet when I encountered a huge rat. My own loud shriek was like the gun that gave me a running start.
When my heart finally stopped racing and the rat was safe in hiding, I remembered an incident an acquaintance told me happened to her last year. She was sitting on a park bench in Manhattan and a huge rat jumped onto her leg, rattling her for the entire day. At that time, I was so happy to be able to say that I live in Sheepshead Bay where we have mice who prefer to stay out of the streets.
Then a few days ago, I noticed this very strange sight in a busy supermarket in Sheepshead Bay. From far away, it looked like it was a huge dropping from a well-fed rat who managed to avoid an untimely death.
The area where the recognizable Victor brand rat trap was located appears to be an employee-only area (good for me, not so good for the employees), but I was able to get close enough to see that the “dropping” turned out to be a kiwi fruit that rolled in from California, not an egg from a chicken-sized, flightless kiwi ratite.
We can’t be sure if the rat they’re trying to trap has a craving for a tropical citrus fruit or if someone didn’t get the chance to move the fruit away. Either way, it looks like with our neighborhood’s litter problem, bold, Manhattan-style rats are swimming into our shores.
(Photo courtesy of Ruby Washington/The New York Times)
Sheepshead Bay High School’s Double Dutch team, the Bay Shark Jumpers, was in the news this weekend. The subject of the feature article and photo slideshow in The City section of the New York Times was the Team Captain, Twindexane Lares.
In one of the photos, one of the team’s coaches, Maria Feld, can be seen with a counter in her hand, keeping track of all of the team members’ jumps.
New York Times writer, Sophia Hollander, interviewed Twindexane about her experience as a double Dutcher, as well about her team’s preparation for the upcoming competition season. In the interview, Twindexane, an 18-year-old senior who is originally from Trinidad & Tobago, says that although many people don’t think of double Dutch rope jumping as a sport, she and her team “work out just as much as other teams”.
We wish Twindexane and the Bay Shark Jumpers all the best this season.
(Photo courtesy of NY MileSplit US)
This past week, the Sheepshead Bay High School Track Team, coached by John Padula, Rori Kelly, and D.R. Phipps, has been in the news. The team participated at the state championships in Ithaca, NY.
While Ramapo’s runner stole first place from Sheepshead’s Paul Fyffe in the 800-meter relay, team member, Darryl Bradshaw (pictured above), raced to first place in the 55-hurdle race. Five Boro Sports and Lo Hud reported on how he took the state title.
Bradshaw and his team members, known as the Sharks, are no no strangers to the news. They were featured in a Daily News article last year for being a team to watch.
You can see sportswriter Christopher Hunt’s article at the Armory Track website outlining how Bradshaw trains.
Sheepshead Bay High School’s sports medicine program will be featured this week in an encore presentation on Brooklyn Community Access Television (BCAT).
Here is the information:
On this episode of In The Zone we’ll recap the high school gridiron action for the month of September with Vernon Jones of NYC Sports Network. Then, on our Skills and Drills segment, we’ll learn how to deliver the perfect Olympic jab with Gymu Boxing’s Kelly Richardson. Later, our aching joints will scout out Sheepshead Bay High School’s sports medicine program before we take a Super Bowl shuffle down memory lane with Chicago Bear #55, Otis Wilson.
Saturday, February 8th at 11pm & 9pm
Wednesday, February 11th at 12pm & 8pm
Thursday, February 12th at 3pm & 11pm
BCAT cablecasts on both Time Warner and Cablevision cable systems in Brooklyn, and the channel designations vary between the two systems. On Time Warner, BCAT can be found on channels 34, 35, 56, 57. On Cablevision, BCAT can be found on channels 67-70. On RCN, BCAT can be found on channels 82-85. Each program in our schedule will have the channels listed for both cable systems.
Check the website for live online information.
Sheepshead Bay H.S. defensive end Andre Civil has accepted an offer from Rutgers’ Scarlet Knights football team, making him the second Brooklynite selected this year. The 6-foot-3, 238-pound student will head to the banks of the ol’ Raritan to join the Class of 2009, and he will play alongside South Shore offensive tackle Jamal Wilson. He chose the Knights over Big East rivals Syracuse and Connecticut. [via NY Post]
As a Sheepshead resident AND a Rutgers alumnus, all I have to say is…
Eat it, Syracuse and Connecticut!
Keep Rutgers colors to the fore,
For they must win so fight, fight, fight!
And we’ll advance some more to score,
The Rutgers flag flies high tonight, alright, alright.
We’ll fling the Scarlet banner out,
And Rutgers men will fight, fight, fight!
The bells of Queens each victr’y shout,
The bells of Queens must ring tonight.
R! U! RAH! RAH! R! U! RAH! RAH! RAH!
HOORAH! HOORAH! RUTGERS! RAH! RAH!
FIGHT! TEAM! UP! STREAM!
UP! STREAM! RED! TEAM! RAH! RAH! RUTGERS! RAH!
-Rutgers Fight Song
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