Hundreds of Brooklyn Heights parents seek solutions for P.S. 8 overcrowding
Meeting at Plymouth Church
Hundreds of parents who attended Thursday night’s meeting about overcrowding at P.S. 8, Brooklyn Heights’ only elementary school, were presented with stark numbers and scant options.
Detailed figures presented by PTA co-presidents Kim Glickman and Ansley Samson show a rapidly building student population that threatens to overwhelm the school.
So many families are pouring into the area that some kindergarteners in P.S. 8’s zone may have to seek placement elsewhere next September – an idea that shocked many in the audience, who said they moved into the zone just so their kids could go to school there. Traditionally, families who live in a school zone are guaranteed a space there.