8 THE QUEENS COURIER • JUNE 15, 2017 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT WWW.QNS.COM Photo courtesy of MTA Subway riders will have access to hundreds of e-books for six weeks. The parents of Rory Staunton are challenging the Garden School’s accreditation. 7/20/17 7/20/17 7/20/17 7/20/17 FATHER'S DAY SPECIALS Encore Premium Photo courtesy of Ciaran and Orlaith Staunton VARILUX PROGRESSIVE LENSES $169 (No-Line Bifocals) w/metal frame.Select frames with clear plastic no-line lenses +/- 4 sph, 2 cyl. Not valid with any other offers, sales, vision plan packages. Must present prior to purchase. Offer valid at location only. Some restrictions apply see store for details. Offer ends 7/20/17 QC ‘Subway Library’ gives Qns. riders e-book access BY ANGELA MATUA amatua@qns.com @AngelaMatua Th e Metropolitan Transportation Authority is partnering with the Queens, Brooklyn and New York Public Library systems to give riders access to hundreds of e-books. For six weeks, anyone who logs into the Transit Wireless Wi-Fi installed in all underground stations can choose from a selection of e-books, e-shorts and excerpts from full-length books as part of the “Subway Library” promotion. Publishers including Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, Penguin Random House, Plympton and Simon & Schuster have also donated excerpts. “We are always looking for new ways to go beyond the walls of our libraries and deliver to the public unique, transporting learning experiences through our materials, services and programs,” said Queens Library President and CEO Dennis M. Walcott. “Subway Reads aligns perfectly with this objective, and will lead even more people to Queens Library’s extensive collection of e-books, audio books, music and digital magazines.” Th e selections will be broken down into categories such as New York Stories, New & Noteworthy, Select Shorts, Children and Young Adult. Books include “Soar” by David Banks, “Swing Time” by Zadie Smith, “Th e Soul Is Not a Smithy” by David Foster Wallace, “Bayou Magic” by Jewell Parker Rhodes and “Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda” by Becky Albertalli. Th ose taking the E or F train may also get to experience the “library train,” which will be wrapped to resemble the Rose Main Reading Room inside the 42nd Street branch of Th e New York Public Library. It will alternate running on the Sixth Avenue and Eighth Avenue lines. Riders who take photos near Subway Library posters or on the library train can tag @TWWiFi and use the hashtag #SubwayLibrary on Twitter or Instagram to win prizes. Winners will get either an Amazon Kindle Voyage or one-of-a-kind prizes from Th e New York Public Library. To access the books, connect to Transit Wireless Wi-Fi and click on the SubwayLibrary.com prompt that will pop up on your screen. Parents of Sunnyside child who died of sepsis challenge Jackson Heights school’s accreditation BY ANGELA MATUA amatua@qns.com @AngelaMatua Th e parents of Rory Staunton, a 12-year-old Garden School student who died from septic shock aft er falling at his gym and getting a cut fi ve years ago, will challenge the Jackson Heights private school’s accreditation. Staunton, a Sunnyside resident, took a fall during gym class on March 27, 2012, aft er diving for a basketball. Th e wound reopened the next day. Th ough Staunton’s gym teacher gave him bandages, his wound was not cleaned and he was not told to go to the nurse. Th e youngster woke up the next day with pain in his leg and aft er visits to his doctor and NYU Langone Hospital, several people failed to detect that he had sepsis. He died on April 1, 2012, from the bacterial infection. His mother and father, Orlaith and Ciaran Staunton, started the Rory Staunton Foundation to spread awareness of the disease. In 2013, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law Rory’s Regulations, making New York the fi rst state in the country to require that hospitals have protocols to quickly screen and treat patients who may have sepsis. On June 12 of this year, the Staunton family announced they would be challenging the Garden School’s accreditation in court. Th e private school, founded in 1923, is not regulated by the U.S. or New York State Departments of Education. Instead, it is regulated by the nonprofi t New York Association of Independent Schools (NYAIS). Th ough the family had an open lawsuit against the school and was off ered several settlements, NYAIS said they would not consider the accreditation challenge if Staunton’s parents pursued the lawsuit. Th ey have chosen to drop it and pursue the challenge instead. “If the occasion of a student’s death won’t change Garden School’s practices, then we need to fi nd a way to convince them to change – even if that means dropping our lawsuit in order to achieve that change through a challenge to Garden School’s private school accreditation,” Orlaith Staunton said in a statement. “We have also been in contact with New York State Department of Education. Our son’s experience and our pain and sorrow should never be experienced by another family.” If they accepted the settlements, the family said, they would be barred about speaking out against the school. Th omas Moore, the attorney representing the family in court, said the Garden School tried covering up its failure to properly treat its student. “It became obvious during the pretrial testimony that the school was grossly negligent in its treatment of Rory,” Moore said. “Th is was followed by a deliberate and orchestrated eff ort to cover up the circumstances of Rory’s fall. Surely, parents who entrust, in part, the education and nurturing of their children to others are entitled to better.” Ciaran Staunton said the family decided to drop the pending lawsuit and pursue the accreditation challenge because “the need to protect other students from the fate that befell our family was always more important than a fi nancial recovery.” Representatives from the Garden School did not respond to a request for comment as of press time.
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