According to district spokesperson Maura Lamoreaux, Yonkers superintendent Bernard Pierorazio spoke with Section 1 executive director Jennifer Simmons today. Pierorazio requested more time to make a decision on the future of the district’s athletics for the 2011-12 school year, and his request was granted.
Pierorazio will be out of the office tomorrow in Albany. He expects to render a decision later this week.
As you know, Yonkers will operate on an austerity budget. Perorazio has said since the spring that that budget will not include sports for the coming school year. However, there has been no final call on the status of athletics.
Will that decision come before Wednesday? It may have to. As I first reported last Friday, the Section 1 football committee plans to meet Wednesday to re-work the power rankings and schedules for the upcoming season.
UPDATE, 5:16 p.m.: “We will make every effort to reach that decision in time for the meeting on Wednesday,” Lamoreaux wrote in an e-mail message.
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All I can say is unbelievable. First Simmons and the football committee allowed themselves to be held hostage by the alternative league, now they’re being held hostage by Yonkers.
No way will they bring back sports before teachers. yonkers educational system is a mess. they mism-anage money every year and continue to put the blame on albany. there is no accountability with the higher up officails!
and periazio drives around in his car paid by tax payers and his quarter of a miilion dollar salary.
there is a serious problem here folks!!!
Josh,
I told you last week this is a JOKE!!!!!!!!! Even if Yonkers pulls this off they ARE NOT going to have enough players for their respective teams. Then what we can hear Jen Simmons start to double talk.
When teams can’t finish games or field teams every week. Based on history pull the plug now and end this farsce. Can some one please tell me who the coaches are at Saunders and Roosevelt ????. Oh boy these guys are really going to have a fighting chance to put it togehter in three weeks.
Yonkers should have their own little league. Play each other and then the best of them can make the playoffs.
If Yonkers sports don’t happen this year, you might see the end of Yonkers Schools as we know them!!!
Gorton, Lincoln and Palisades Prep have got to be some of the worst schools in the State.
If anyone cared to do ANY RESEARCH you could see that attendance at these Schools is way behind schools throughout NY State.
Why should the State keep funding schools where kids don’t show up to school.
I have worked in District for 10 years and can tell you from first hand experience that the Yonkers Schools waste money and get horrible results because basic rules are NEVER enforced.
The parents are to blame for not having a serious interest in their children. The Principals are to blame for not enforcing attendance and lateness. If a student misses 40 days of school in a year, shouldnt Social Services be notified?
They need to totally redo the Yonkers System, divide the North from the SOuth. This Superintendant should be humiliated by the results he produces.
Stop worrying about this yonkers hoopla. Matter of fact who needs class B? Petey dejoy that center from bronxville, best lineman in the secion! And not only is he a sound run blocker but the tail that kid gets!
Jsal
HUH?
The End,
isn’t palisades prep the newest school? usually they don’t reach full capacity until a few years in. 3 Years since it was started and this year it will officially grow to grades 7-12. So maybe not the best example for your post, but we can all agree on the other schools.
But this is a joke. Yonkers is going to keep asking for an extension, and Section I will keep giving it to them. It’s unfair to every other team and district that has things set up for the fall by late june/early july.
Why is the rest of the section being held hostage by the incompetance of the Yonkers schools? What gets me is that the deadline is set so the impact on the rest of the section wont be as devastating if Yonkers does not have football this season. When I was in school and something was due on a certain date I made sure I met that deadline. Are the Yonkers administrators as flexibale with deadlines with their students when it come to their work? It is just another example of what a joke that school system is!! Cut them free of the schedule and put them in a Yonkers League so they dont hurt any teams because they cant dress a team. Get to work on new rankings and get a new schedule out ASAP!!!
HSFBGUY,
Palisade Prep is NEW and is a NIGHTMARE!!!!!!!!!!!
The inmates run the asylum
Any word on Yonkers football? Did they meet today? Will Yonkers have sports?
The End,
Damn. That’s not good for a new school. at all.
Anyone else here feel like Yonkers has an answer, and that it’s most likely a “no-go”, but won’t tell Section I because it would hate to face reality and admit there won’t be any sports? It’s almost like they’re in denile about this and think by asking for deadline extensions they can somehow avoid the unavoidable and pull a miracle out…when in reality it’s a small dream.
How does a whole city fall apart like this? Very sad.
Just wait until Labor Day Weekend when teams can’t be formed due to a lack of a critical numbers. Or Week 2 of the season when games are forfeited by Yonkers teams due to injuries dropping squads below permissable participation levels.
What’s the plan then?
Scramble to fill open weeks with teams from CT, MA, NJ, PA, RI?