I'm stunned by this, and even more stunned by the City's response that its employees were following protocol and therefore they were correct.

Rosa Bracero couldn't take the English Regents exam last week because her family had been evicted the same day, and staff at a homeless intake center said they'd be denied shelter if the teen left.

"I'm homeless so I have to be set back in my goals for my life?" asked Rosa, 17. "Isn't it enough that I'm homeless?"

Rosa, a student at Brooklyn's High School for Civil Rights, told staffers at the city's central family intake center she needed to take the 1:15 p.m. exam to earn her diploma.

The workers told her the entire family - her mother, brother, sister-in-law and two baby nieces - had to be on hand for the seven-hour process.