Shantazia Williams, 11, doesn’t mince words when it comes to PS 106.
“This school is terrible,” the fifth-grader said outside the Far Rockaway, Queens school last week, her mother standing by her side.
Shantazia, one of four sisters who attends the pre-K-to-5 school, stays with the same teacher all day, but when the teacher has a daily “prep” period, her class is herded into the auditorium. For the past 15 months, the gym and art teachers showed movies.
She rattled off some recent flicks: “Underdog,” “Fat Albert,” a basketball movie and one about the Jamaican bobsled team. Sometimes they watched the first half of a movie one day, and the rest the next day. It’s all a blur.
“It was so many movies, I can’t remember which day I watched what,” she said. “Sometimes I went to sleep or just sat there and played with my hair.
“One movie had curses and kissing in it. I asked the teacher if she could change it. She told me to sit down. She was just playing with her phone.”
Last week, after The Post exposed conditions at the school, teachers moved the chairs aside. “Now we have art and gym,” Shantazia said.
But other special classes are still missing, she said: “We used to have music and science class.”
In social studies lately, Shantazia is writing essays about slavery. She has a math workbook, but the text is “torn up and written in,” she said. “Inside the cover it says the book was from 2004. I have a Core Knowledge book with the cover ripped off and the back ripped off.”
Shantazia likes her teacher this year. “Last year the teacher yelled at me a lot,” she said.
When her teacher is absent, no substitute shows. Shantazia and her classmates are sent to other classrooms. “I have to find some work to do,” she said.
Shantazia is disgusted by the environment. “I see a lot of bugs here. There’s always dirt everywhere. Sometimes I find an ant on the floor when I’m eating my food in the cafeteria.”
Lunch is “nasty,” she said. “Sometimes it’s burnt or has a hair in it.”
Shantazia was held back last year even after her mom, Chante Williams, spent more than $200 on a fancy white dress for graduation — required by Principal Marcella Sills, who also demanded rental tuxedos for boys. Williams also paid the school $160 for a graduation party and a ring. The school did not refund the money, and the mom had to pay another $160 for this June’s event.
“I really do want to have a great time,” Shantazia said.