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

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**Created:** [August 18, 2011, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-academy-of-global-finance-does-a-poor-job-of-training-future-banksters/593249 "2011-08-18T23:46:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-academy-of-global-finance-does-a-poor-job-of-training-future-banksters/593249/1 "2011-08-18T23:46:47Z")

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

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> 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.
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> 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.
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> “The kids run wild and the teachers are scared,” said an administrator at the high school who asked to remain anonymous.
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> “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.”
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> 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](http://insideschools.org/high/browse/school/1598), 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_:

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> 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](http://www.theonion.com/articles/bill-clinton-starts-own-presidential-school,6419/)_ which is “located on 146th Street in Harlem above the Flying Dragon Tae Kwon Do School” back in 2008.