“Squeezed out” [Feb. 2 issue], your article about charter school co-locations, reflected my own school’s experience. When a charter school moved into our building, our middle school lost needed classroom space because the high school was forced down to the middle school floor. My middle school students eat lunch at 10:20 a.m. because we have to split time with our high school and the charter school.

We no longer have a shared science lab for the science teachers. Instead, the state-of-the-art lab is used as a non-science classroom. I have to lug buckets of water to my classroom to prepare for messy science.

When our theater teacher recruited the Bette Midler Family Foundation to help fund the rebuilding of our auditorium, it was the co-located charter school that got to use the renovated auditorium first.

Our new library is used as a regular classroom and can’t be used as a library because there’s almost always a high school class in session in the library.

Rachelle Travis, Dr. Susan S. McKinney Secondary School of the Arts, Brooklyn
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