Morris High School
The poorest district in the city of New York
What is the South Bronx?
Manipulating Boundaries
What is Gerrymandering?
What is one thing all students pledge allegiance?
What is the American Flag
The average class size for public school 24
What is 30?
Conditions are bad in and around Morris High School
What is (multiple possible right answers)
1) Blackboards are so cracked teachers are afraid to let students write on them for fear of cutting themselves
2) Waterfall courses down six flights of stairs every time it rains heavily
3) Paint chips fall so much it covers floor like snow
4) Band room has acoustic tiles that often fall
5) Classroom sealed off because of gaping hole in the floor
6) Classrooms destroyed by fire are still unrepaired
2,300 Handcuffs
What is: The item purchased by New York City’s office of school in safety?
What percent of students at Rye High School are African American?
What is 1-2%
The actual school capacity of public school 261
What is 900?
The reason why Jack Forman, an English teacher, also teaches Theater.
What is: He believes the theater course benefits students who do not respond to ordinary classes.
Brain damage and retardation
What : The two illnesses that the non profit hospital in New York City funds due to high rates of?
What was the name of the name of the student at Rye High School who said students in urban neighborhoods need more funding and don't deserve to suffer?
What is David
The number of computers for public 261
What is 26?
What is Black and Mexican?
3 times as likely than that of white children
What is the most likely rate that Black children would be placed in special needs classes?
How much money was spent on children in Mount Vernon, New York (75% African American)?
What is $6,400
The illness students is urban areas tend to have
What is neurological damage?
The ambitions of students at Morris High School
(Multiple right answers)
What is:
1) One student wants to be a doctor
2) Two students want to be lawyers
3) Alexander wants to be an architect
4) Carissa wants to be a business woman
Bronx High School's curriculum is based upon
What is Science and Math?
In Mississippi, During the Civil Rights Movement, about how much was spent per student?
What is $1,500
The two things that would help school 261 and 79 succeed if they had them.
What are: encyclopedias and librarians?