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BY GUS FISHER
FREELANCE REPORTER
Something highly unusual happens
every week at I.S. 192 in Throggs Neck:
kids beg their parents to bring them to
school. On Saturdays.
I.S. 192 keeps its doors open on
weekends, weeknights and holidays
to offer art classes, STEM activities,
team sports and more through the
P&J Beacon program. Part of a citywide
initiative, P&J Beacon provides
a community space to the school’s 3-to-
13-year-old students, as well as to older
teens and adults from the area, who
participate in and help lead the activities.
“Community members of all ages
have been coming to my class, learning
together,” said the Beacon’s Jiu Jitsu
teacher Sensei Gary George, whose
children also attend the program. “It’s
been an incredible experience.”
On a typical weeknight, the halls
of I.S. 192 are bustling. Beacon group
leaders, mostly young adults from
the community, welcome the students
with high-fi ves and guide them to their
activities. Parents chit-chat about how
each other’s children have grown. Students
greet the security staff and janitors
by their fi rst names.
“The familiar environment here is
really what makes the Beacon so special,”
said Rayshawn Logan, who has
been a group leader at the program
for four years. “Students start out not
wanting to be at school for any longer
than they have to. But after a couple
months, they don’t want to leave.”
P&J is one of 91 Beacon locations in
New York City. Funded by the NYC Department
of Youth & Community, the
program partners with various nonprofi
t organizations to start community
centers at local schools. The nonprofi
t Phipps Neighborhoods helped
found the Beacon at I.S. 192 in 2008.
The Beacon at I.S. 192 has caught
the attention of Robert Bieder, youth
and education director at Community
Board 10, who wants to use the school
as a model to establish a similar program
at Harry S. Truman High School
in Co-op City.
Truman is the largest public school
in the district, with 2,094 students,
two swimming pools, a football fi eld
and a planetarium. “It would be great
if those facilities could be made available
for the entire community to use –
not just the students,” Bieder said in
an interview.
Keri Alfano, Truman’s principal,
said in an interview that she is a fi rm
believer in afterschool programs, and
she would be eager to extend access of
her school’s facilities to the broader
Co-op City community. She is currently
discussing the details of the
Beacon program with its directors.
Edwin Scott, director of the P&J
Beacon in Throggs Neck, said in an
interview that Truman would be an
ideal location for a Beacon, but it needs
to follow a fl exible, community-driven
model in order to succeed.
“It’s not easy to create a space
where students want to be after the
last bell of the day rings,” Scott said.
“It requires consistently listening to
the individual needs of the students
and parents. There is no cookie-cutter,
one-size-fi ts-all Beacon. Each
community is different because each
student is different.”
Community members
of all ages have been
coming to my class,
learning together. It’s
been an incredible
experience.
Gary George
Please send your resume and cover letter to jstern@cnglocal.com or call 718-260-8302
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