HARLEM — For the first time in two years, students at P.S. 242 will be able to look at the school’s clocks and know how long they have until recess.
Since September 2013, several clocks and speakers systems at the school have been broken, DNAinfo New York previously reported, but sometime over the summer, the Department of Education said they finally fixed the issue before the first day of school, a department spokesman said.
“It’s about time,” said Darryl Adams, 37, who was dropping off his son. “It should’ve been fixed a long time ago.”
Because the speakers in the auditorium didn’t work, parents of the school at 121st Street and Lenox Avenue could not hear children during school plays or award ceremonies in the spring.
“It’s a problem,” said the mother of a third grade student who declined to give her name. “You go to the functions and you can’t hear what the kids are saying.”
P.S. 242 wasn’t the only one. DNAinfo reported last school year that more than 70 schools around the city had at least one clock or one speaker broken. P.S. 242 had 20 broken clocks and six broken speakers.
