PS/MS 20 invites the public to celebrate its children’s accomplishments at Barnes and Noble of Bay Plaza in Co-op City, 290 Baychester Ave., June 16, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Cheerleaders and choruses will perform and activities will include chess and Lego building competitions, story time, and a talent show. We will also bid farewell to Principal Carol Carlsen, who will retire after 13 years at the school. Please let the cashiers know you’re with the school as a small percentage of each purchase will benefit PS/MS 20. For more information, call event coordinator Lisa Kogel at (718) 515-9370 ext. 3155.
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This person was never in her position for the right reasons, the school never set up any clubs or programs and when the afterschool lost funding for summer camp she sat on her hands and did nothing. She surrounds herself with inept buffoons who hold positions of assistant principal’s and business manager at the school further impacting the school as they are the main reason no extra math, science or sports clubs exist in this school. The school has a 4 rating with most independent school rating websites not run by the city, indicating less than half the student body pass state exams. They alienated the PTA and at one point were responsible for the highly dangerous practice of having the wheelchair bound students unloading in the middle of Webster Ave by parking in no parking zones directly affecting their own students with no regard. This Principal was a horrible horrible principal and should not be celebrated but stripped of her very padded retirement package. She and those like her are in part the problem with union jobs in which you cannot get rid of those who are ineffective at their jobs.