Clarkstown School Board Sets Forum On CHS North Roach Problem

NEW CITY, NY — It's not the first time the roach problem at Clarkstown High School North has hit the news. There was 2007, when students staged a walkout.

The district's been working on it ever since, with limited success. So when new photos of dead roachs on the floor of an athletic storage room at the school hit social media this month, parents were outraged.

School officials sent a note to parents explaining that North's construction, specially the steam tunnels, created unique problems that they have been addressing for years with a state-mandated Integrated Pest Management Program, and which they enlisted experts at Cornell University to review. Officials said the dead roaches pictured on social media likely found their way into the storage room through an unused drain system and died because of the pest management program.

Now the Clarkstown Board of Education will hold a forum June 10 to present an overview of the current pest management program at CHS North.

The meeting will start at 7 p.m. at the Felix Festa Middle School in the Black & White
Cafeteria.

The problem is of sufficiently long standing that the official student fan section account on Twitter calls itself the Clarkstown Roaches: