Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza was jeered off the stage at a packed town hall meeting at a Queens middle school Thursday as anger over school safety boiled over.
The Department of Education boss faced the wrath of more than 500 parents at MS 74 Nathaniel Hawthorne in Oakland Gardens.
“What is happening here?” parent Katty Sterling yelled at Carranza. “We’re not getting answers! Nobody is giving answers!”
Exasperated, Sterling told school officials how her daughter had twice allegedly been assaulted by a female classmate at MS 158 Marie Curie in Bayside and is now too afraid to return to school.
Her daughter’s tormentor was never suspended and remains in class, according to Sterling.
“The other student is sitting in school getting all the privileges and what is my daughter doing? Sitting at home, sick, getting traumatized!” Sterling screamed at the dais just feet from Carranza.
MS 158, one of the district’s highly regarded schools, has been hit with a string of ugly incidents in recent months, including a vicious lunchroom fight last week and a classroom sexual assault last month. Both incidents resulted in arrests.
Tired of an attempt at reassurance by School District 26 Superintendent Danielle Giunta, Sterling had approached the dais to give Carranza and other officials a piece of her mind.
As she vented her frustrations, others in the audience joined in.
After several unsuccessful attempts to quiet the crowd, Carranza rose and exited the stage as the hooting continued.
Earlier in the meeting, after the superintendent spoke, a school dad whose daughter was allegedly forcibly touched in an MS 158 classroom in November, tried to address the panel.
But panel members told him they were answering only questions that had been submitted in writing before the meeting — and that he was out of order.
The father said last month that MS 158 administrators never told him his daughter was being sexually hounded by a male classmate who once pulled down his pants in a classroom closet and asked a friend to fetch her for him.
The following month, the classmate demanded sex from the girl and allegedly groped her groin. He was arrested the next day.
The Post is not naming the dad in order to protect his daughter’s identity.
Prior to Carranza’s exit, a panel member read a question from a teacher and union representative in the audience.
“In District 26, we feel that staffers are no longer respected and supported,” the teacher said as the audience applauded.
“The lack of accountability and follow-through as related to discipline has caused a lowering of morale and an inability to effectively manage classrooms.”