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Most of the city's 1.1 million students went back to school Wednesday with a mix of excitement and nervousness, but a few hundred kids in Harlem arrived to find protesters outside and furniture stacked inside classrooms.
Frustrated parents at Public School 123 picketed outside the school to protest what they said was preferential treatment for Harlem Success Academy 2 charter school, located in the same building.
"Our school was not ready," said Antoinette Hargrove, the school's Parent Association president. "The same people who got their school ready were supposed to get our school ready. What are we - dogmeat?"
Parents said two classrooms were unusable, after furniture that had been off the third floor to make way for the charter school was shifted down to the floor.
Those classes met in the library, the parents said. One class met in the basement that parents said was overheated and had poor ventilation.
Harlem Success began moving into the 140th Street building in July.
Their floors were waxed, the walls were freshly painted and the bathrooms had been completely renovated in time for opening day.
Eva Moskowitz, who runs Harlem Success, sent out an angry email this morning claiming that "teacher union protesters blocked a group of Harlem 5-year-olds from entering their public school building this morning....
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