Finally, these kids have something to say “Yes!” about.
Boxes of schoolbooks were delivered Wednesday to the infamous Queens “School of No” after a series of Post articles revealed mismanagement and neglect by absentee Principal Marcella Sills.
A large panel truck pulled up to Far Rockaway’s PS 106 just before 3 p.m. and unloaded the trove of much-needed books for students, who for months have gotten their lessons from faded, shared photocopies.
Parents said the kids also had a rare gym class — after months of watching movies during the time carved out for physical education.
“It’s about damn time,” said angry mom Lorraine Legions, who has a second-grade son in the school. “What the hell are they watching movies for? They’re supposed to be in there learning.”
“PS 106 now has books,” tweeted mom Persia Mucerino, who saw the most basic of learning tools being delivered as she picked up her daughter from kindergarten class at 3 p.m.
“I’m shocked it went on this long,” Mucerino, 27, told The Post.
A source said the boxes had been delivered, but not opened.
Wednesday night, parents gathered at the school for an emergency meeting. Many of the 75 who showed up stormed out after Principal Sills failed to attend — and when PTA members defended her.
“Nothing was done. The principal didn’t even bother to show up. They don’t care about the kids in this school,” fumed Cindy Caromina, the mom of a third-grader.
“They didn’t do anything for these kids until the story in The Post came out,” added Jaron Spencer, father of third- and fourth-grade students. “Now they are putting on a big show. But once the media goes away, they’ll go back to doing nothing for the kids.”
PTA President Wendy Pratt ran the meeting — which got heated at times — and served as Sills’ apologist.
“I can’t speak to how [Sills] dresses but no one here is perfect,” she said. “As far as the June dance, no one was forced to go.”
Sills has also come under fire for a bizarre annual wedding-themed graduation bash that requires cash-strapped parents to shell out up to $260 for the event and for mandatory gowns and tuxedo rentals.
“I have a professional relationship with the principal,” Pratt said. “I, as she is, am here for the children.”
Education officials sprang into action after The Post revealed that PS 106 had no gym or art classes and no math or reading textbooks that followed the Core Curriculum.
Investigators dispatched Tuesday by the DOE found “key organizational and systemic areas where improvement is needed.” Insiders pin the school’s woes on Sills, 48, the $128,000-a-year principal, who sources said is often late for work, when she shows up at all.
A DOE spokesman did not return calls for comment.
Meanwhile, third-grader Delina Garcia, 8, excited at the prospect of the new books, said she is ready for some real lessons.
“I’m bored,” she said.
Additional reporting by Leonard Greene, C.J. Sullivan and Lorena Mongelli