Viorel Florescu/for New York Daily News
Jovana Russell said an older boy exposed himself to her daughter Khaliyah. Parents at PS 67 are furious that school for 6-10 grades keeps expanding in what used to be only an elementary school.
Students at Public School 67 in West Farms are afraid to walk the hallways, use the bathrooms and play outside.
One little girl in first grade doesnt like going down a certain staircase after an older boy exposed himself to her.
The Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation, now a grade 6-10 school, will expand to 12th grade inside PS 67s building - and parents are furious that their young children dont feel safe.
This was built to accomodate the needs of elementary school students, said Nancy Cordero, who has a son in first grade. These children should have their own private space. I dont want my son to be exposed to things that are not age appropriate.
The new library donated by Christ Church in Harlem several years ago is now sectioned off by cardboard partitions, with high school students learning sex education a few feet away from English Language Learners and special education students from PS 67, also named the Mohegan School.
Im a parent of teenagers as well as younger children, and its not fair to either group, blasted Terrence Walker, another parent. Given our situation, were not going to show much improvement if our ELLs are trying to learn English, but theyre getting sex education instead.
School officials said they will monitor the safety situation and address school issues.
We have been working with the campus principals and the buildings safety committee about their concerns, said Department of Education spokeswoman Marge Feinberg.
PS 67 has received high marks on city report cards in recent years, but parents said they have a feeling that their children are being set up for failure.
Im appalled, because when my kids first started here in pre-k, they learned having small class sizes, said Jovana Russell of the parent association. Now were looking at between 28 and 32 kids in a class with one teacher. How are they supposed to learn?
Russell filed a report in 2010 after a boy exposed himself to her first grade daughter, Khaliyah. No one was charged because she wasnt able to pick anyone out of a line-up.
Now in third grade, Khaliyah described the high school to a reporter this way:
Theyre taking up our whole school, the 9-year-old said shyly.
clestch@nydailynews.com
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