By John Felder
Columnist
It's baseball season once again in Highbridge, the Bronx. All the fans have arrived early to set up their personal beer stands around the stadium. Billy's restaurant has a full house for the first time in months. The NYPD is out in full force to protect the cars of out of town fans against a backdrop of military war planes flying low around the stadium's periphery to wake up Bronxites who work at night with the roar of F-14 fighter jets hovering to give would-be terrorists something to consider had there been an actual alert or flood or something.
Quite Hollywoodish, if you ask me. Bronx residents can't find public meter parking because the NYPD has blocked off 162nd Street between River Avenue and Gerard Avenue for the first time in 35 years. Meanwhile, small business's regular customers are forced to seek nourishment elsewhere because the Yankee Stadium group is flexing its muscles to further humiliate community residents after losing the preliminary vote to stop the ground breaking ceremonies for the construction of a new Yankee Stadium on Public Park Land. It looks like it's going to be a long hot summer although today it's only 68 F.
Meanwhile in the educator stadium. There is an air of deception between the parents of Highbridge and the faculty at our very own P.S 126x. The principal, Ms. Aurora Rosado, was recently made permanent leader of the elementary school. There have been many reports sent out from the school to the ACS and children have been removed from their parents based on allegations lodged by the faculty. A teacher experienced a meltdown on September 16th, 2005, and again in the winter of 2006 when two children were allegedly assaulted in the classroom. A letter was written by the secretary but never followed up by the principal.
I have contacted Region 1 and up to this day nothing has been done to remove this teacher, who practices corporal punishment, from doing any more harm to our already endangered children. What started out as an "incident" has blossomed in the spring to a great cover-up.
By the way, parents are not allowed by law to report teachers to the ACS.
