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New York City, N.Y., Mar 27, 2017 \/ 06:09 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Amid charges that a selective public high school excluded Catholic school students from admission, the principal insists it was due to a clerical error but still faces heavy criticism.<\/p>\n

Maspeth High School, in the New York City borough of Queens, gives admission priority to students who live nearby and attend information sessions or open houses.<\/p>\n

The school selected about 250 prospective students out of 1,000 applicants in its lottery.<\/p>\n

However, the principal had failed to mark for priority status 207 students of Catholic schools who had attended an information session for Maspeth. Priority status would have placed them in the random lottery.<\/p>\n

Instead, none of those 207 students were accepted, the New York Post reports.<\/p>\n

Principal Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir told parents the omission was due to a \u201cclerical error.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was an error. There was a problem,\u201d the principal said at a March 16 meeting of the Juniper Park Civic Association, the Queens Chronicle reports. \u201cSo there is no vast conspiracy against any of the parochial schools. Some of our best students come from parochial schools.\u201d<\/p>\n

As controversy grew, New York City Department of Education officials then entered 207 of the applicants from parochial schools into a second lottery. It offered seats to 66 of these students, who would make up about 15 percent of the freshman class.<\/p>\n

Critics of the system charge that it is vulnerable to abuse by principals who want to exclude or favor certain students.<\/p>\n

The president of the Juniper Park Civic Association, Bob Holden, told the New York Post that the principal had in a phone call described parochial schools as \u201ca problem\u201d because \u201cmany of the students opt out and don\u2019t go to my school,\u201d which costs the school funding.<\/p>\n

Holden called for an investigation.<\/p>\n

Parents may ask the city to re-do the entire lottery for the high school.<\/p>\n

Among the parents critical of the school was Jimmy Guarneri, whose son Michael was not accepted. \u201cWe\u2019re very angry,\u201d he told the New York Post.<\/p>\n

His son will go to a Catholic high school, but only received a partial scholarship. \u201cI\u2019m working two jobs as it is,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The second lottery meant many students were rejected twice, including the son of parent Santo Vicino.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t seen my son cry before and he\u2019s cried twice this past week,\u201d Vicino told the New York Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cI need this school for my son\u2019s health, safety and well-being,\u201d he added. \u201cI\u2019m demanding a seat. I want what\u2019s right.\u201d<\/p>\n

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