Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance does a poor job of training future banksters

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future gangsters are being trained just fine, though.

From http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-08-08/local/29882257_1_school-survey-dangerous-schools-bronx-charter-school :

A Brooklyn high school co-founded by Borough President Marty Markowitz is one of the most dangerous places to learn, a new Education Department survey shows.

Students at the Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance in Bedford-Stuyvesant face routine bullying, gang activity and a generally unsafe campus, according to the city’s 2011 School Survey.

“The kids run wild and the teachers are scared,” said an administrator at the high school who asked to remain anonymous.

“It’s like there are no rules here at all,” she added.
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Just 8% of teachers said they feel safe in the building and 92% said that students are “frequently threatened or bullied.”

Officials said safety incidents at the school - which opened in 2009, offering students courses in financial trading and Mandarin Chinese - increased last year, but administrators are working to address the issue.

Interestingly, as explained here, this is a very small school. Just 74 blacks, 21 Hispanics, 2 whites and 0 Asians - most of them, presumably, unlikely candidates for the future of global finance - proved sufficient to establish this school’s reputation as “one of the most dangerous places to learn”. Not sure about validity of these stats because if there really are just around 5 teachers there and 8% feel safe, it’s unclear what fractional teacher body-part is that that’s feeling safe in these global finance related halls of academe.

Globe School of Environmental Research is not doing much better in the field of preparing, err, environmental researchers:

At the Globe School for Environmental Research in the Bronx, 46% of students said they stayed home because, “I don’t feel safe at school.”

I guess this is life imitating TheOnion which wrote about Bill Clinton President School which is “located on 146th Street in Harlem above the Flying Dragon Tae Kwon Do School” back in 2008.