“I’m hoping, you know, sometimes bad decisions happen after school, so I’m hoping we could have amazing after school activities, like tutoring or something fun like a music program,” said iamcardib.
Cardi B, aka Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, is a Manhattan and Bronx native who attended I.S 232 as a youth. She was joined by Banks, Principal Desiree Resto, and Community Capacity Development Executive Director K. Bain. She announced that she’d be donating $100,000 to the school for additional programming.
“Even though in the back of my head I used to hear my mother say, ‘you better become somebody, take school seriously,’ I still wanted to be one of those girls because I was very popular,” said Cardi B. “But to be popular [I had to make] a lot of bad decisions.” Meanwhile, the excitement of students flooding the halls again hasn’t overshadowed the weeks-long legal battle between the city, DOE, parents, and teachers over school budget cuts. Though Adams staunchly refused to call it a “budget battle” when asked about the topic on the first day of school.
Councilmembers Kristin Richardson-Jordan and Charles Barron, known for their incredible outspokenness, called the entire budgeting situation
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