I've been reading the postings and I'm shocked to ...

I've been reading the postings and I'm shocked to hear this school has transformed from a place of doom, to something positive. I often like to survey the terrain of my life and see if changes occurred in old places. I attended this school when it was called, J.H.S 22- Straubenmuller. My grade advisor's advice at that time said to me ; " Why do you like art? Don't you like to fix cars? All the boys like to fix cars? So I had placement to attend a Vocational H.S. So, I now can see, this perspective, to send children to a "Work Camp" to experience all their lives, has ended. It took me years to undue this severely, defective perspective. At the age of 33, I was fortunate enough to receive a Stipend Scholarship to attend NYU Medical Center. A perspective from a Puerto Rican descendant: You can delay a "Mind" from fully developing, but you can't stop a "Mind" from fully realizing it's potential.