‘A slap in the face’: Migrant shelters in public schools infuriate parents

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Students and parents of public school children are fuming over the placement of migrant families in their gymnasiums, marking a new area of strain as the city struggles to house newcomers.

One such gym at a school building in Williamsburg, which houses P.S. 17 and M.S. 577, has been converted into a makeshift shelter for migrants — and parents took to the streets in protest on Tuesday.