Marine Park JHS parents, educators want principal out

The principal of a Brooklyn middle school has ruined its once-proud reputation and should resign, parents and staffers told The Post.

Teachers at JHS 278 in Marine Park have taken two no-confidence votes against Kerri Moser since she arrived in 2019 and made numerous complaints to Department of Education higher-ups without success, insiders said.

“She’s still there terrorizing the community. The community is over it,” said William Mauras, who headed the Parent Association from 2019 through last spring and whose two older children attended the school.

Mauras said he will send his youngest child elsewhere.

The number of Marine Park students who met or exceeded state standards in math declined from 46% in 2019 to 33% in 2022 while English scores improved from 58% in 2019 to 62% in 2022, DOE data shows.

Educators are fleeing the school — which serves about 1,200 students in grades six to eight — rather than deal with Moser, who recently assigned teachers who don’t speak Spanish to teach Spanish classes, insiders said.

“You have gym teachers and social studies teachers teaching Spanish,” one educator said.

They also contend that she de-emphasized the school’s arts program, which included an award-winning band.

Moser stays in her office watching camera feeds from hallways on a giant television she purchased rather than walk the halls to restore order, and fighting has increased, insiders contend.

In another head-scratching move, Moser spent about $400,000 replacing fairly new furniture with new chairs that had wheels that did not lock, insiders said.

“What did the children do? They turned the chairs into bumper cars,” said a union official familiar with the school.

More than 1,000 people have signed a petition in the last two years to remove Moser.

“The thing she was able to do as principal is unite the staff in hatred toward her,” one educator said.

Moser and the DOE did not immediately return requests for comment.

Additional reporting by Susan Edelman