With more than 100,000 schools around the nation under his supervision, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said that as much as he’d like to, he doesn’t have sufficient energy to by and by visit each of them.
Be that as it may, Staten Island’s New Dorp High School is the special case, he said.
Duncan paid his second visit to New Dorp on Friday to perceive how far the school has come since Hurricane Sandy in 2012. More than 365 understudies and some three-dozen employees at New Dorp experienced misfortunes Sandy.
At the point when Duncan initially went by the school, in December 2012, he was moved by understudies’ stories of misfortune and survival, and of how the school met up to bolster families. He stayed in contact with New Dorp directors, and guaranteed to return eventually to see what had been finished and what was still required.
He returned away Friday awed and astounded by the secondary school’s versatility and soul.
“From awful catastrophe, extraordinary things can happen. You are doing incredible things here; what you’ve done is astounding,” Duncan told understudies and staff as he visited the school, joined by Principal Deirdre D’Angelis.
He looked as unique needs understudies from the Hungerford School Annex at New Dorp performed at their yearly show. He watched seniors play b-ball amid a physical-training class, telling the adolescents that it is so imperative to graduate and go ahead to school. “You’ve got the chance to take the necessary steps and get that degree,” said Duncan, who told the competitors he played ball while he was an understudy at Harvard.
He twisted up his visit in New Dorp’s “Football Hall of Fame,” where he found out about fanciful mentor Sal Somma, and appeared to be truly captivated by the presentation of memorabilia. Somma’s girl, Toni, a workmanship instructor at New Dorp, let him know of how her father affected an era of understudies, and enlivened her own profession in instruction. She is one of five New Dorp graduated class as of now educating there, Ms. D’Angelis let him know.
Duncan had acclaim for Ms. D’Angelis and her staff. “Not every school appreciates the unique brotherhood I’ve seen here. This is plainly not only work to every one of you; its an enthusiasm,” he said.
“Your backing implied a considerable measure to us when we required it after Sandy, and it truly implies a great deal to our entire group to have you return today,” Ms. D’Angelis told Duncan.
