Influx of migrants at NYC high school overflows classes, forces students to other building

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A Queens high school hit capacity Thursday morning, sending some students to a facility across the street

as thousands of migrant students seemed to inundate classrooms — even as only two-thirds of students reportedly show up to class due to chronic absenteeism.

Newcomers High School in Long Island City felt the strain from the migrant crisis on day one of the academic year, with a line to get in that stretched around the block and some students forced to go to another building to make room.Paul MartinkaPaul Martinka“It’s a capacity issue,” one exasperated teacher told The Post. “They should have worked this out two days ago!”

Teachers stood outside Newcomers early Thursday directing students to either that school or another that shares the Newcomer building, Gotham Tech High School. Another educator stood in front of the school’s entrance, yelling in Spanish, “If you have ID, the left door. No ID, the right door. You pick up your program in the auditorium.”Students at Gotham, inside the Newcomers building, were escorted across the street to a different building.Many of the migrant students wore their Queens shelter IDs with pride Thursday morning.

 

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