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A Principal Rewrites the Book

10/23/2015

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At P.S. 172 in Brooklyn, a Principal Rewrites the Book

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By GINIA BELLAFANTE OCT. 23, 2015

In 1970, Jack Spatola, born Giacomo, a young immigrant from the small town of Paceco on the western tip of Sicily, who had come to the United States at the age of 14 with his parents to live in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, was called to service in the Vietnam War. His father was a shoemaker, his mother a seamstress, and neither wanted him to go; Mr. Spatola managed to avoid the draft on the grounds that he was the only person in his family who spoke English. Instead, he went to college — to Pace University — and got into education.​ click here for full article:  New York Times article 

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