Budget Cuts Threatening To Cramp P.S. 321's Style
The administration and PTA for P.S. 321 on 7th Avenue and 1st Street—widely considered one of the best and most progressive public elementary schools in Brooklyn, if not the entire city—are up in arms about the $125,000 in budget cuts the school is facing, and they’re calling on parents to march at the Department of…
The administration and PTA for P.S. 321 on 7th Avenue and 1st Street—widely considered one of the best and most progressive public elementary schools in Brooklyn, if not the entire city—are up in arms about the $125,000 in budget cuts the school is facing, and they’re calling on parents to march at the Department of Education offices tomorrow. (Principals all over the city have been slamming the slashed DOE budget.) P.S. 321’s principal sent a note home to parents saying the cuts mean the school won’t be able to buy new classroom furniture and certain school supplies (including new math books), and that there will be less money available for the professional development of teachers. On Monday, the PTA co-presidents sent home another letter (see copy on jump) about how the loss of funding will hurt the school; this communication asks parents to show up for the 4:00 p.m. rally in Lower Manhattan tomorrow to protest the cuts. (The rally is distinct from the meeting about the budget cuts that Councilman de Blasio is holding at Borough Hall tonight.) So how does all this circle back to real estate? This is no doubt overly simplistic, but is it possible for the budget cuts to make some would-be Slope buyers (who often move to the neighborhood because of schools like P.S. 321) reconsider, or think about shelling out for private school instead? Or do the strong voices of parents at P.S. 321 affirm the lure of the school and neighborhood? GMAP
TIME-OUT…TIME-OUT…TIME-OUT!!!
EVERYBODY JUST CHILL OUT A MINUTE!
yes, love and respect for each other, but no-one else outside the family because they were all cught up in hatin.
1:04 says…
“Look this debate is endless but this summer simply go to Prospect Park – look at the parents and the kids of the people who are outside bbq-ing and drinking and then go into the zoo and look at the parents and the kids who are learning about animals”
I say, eating BBQ is an excellent way to learn about animals, in fact my preferred way.
PS321 is over-rated anyway–my kid attended from the 3rd to 6th grade. One year her teacher was the incompetent daughter of some District 15 bigshot. They could save the 125k by firing the worst teacher in there, and there’re bound to be several.
But nobody will say that, might drive real estate values down. I’m surprised all the union-bashers you see on posts about new construction don’t complain about one of the most hidebound, featherbedding, incompetent-protecting unions in the country–the UFT.
And they just got a 6% raise to boot, didn’t they?
2:35..I can remember one every weekend. It was a time when my entire family got together to show love and respect. To check on our elderly and to embrace the new additions to the family. Unlike your family who probably don’t speak all year, get together only on Thanksgiving to argue amongst your siblings,to ignore your fathers gambling, your mothers drinking, your grandfathers alziemers,your son’s prescription drug habit and your daughter’s excessive weight lost, all the while waiting for the next one to pass on so you can get your hands on that apartment zoned for 321.
Care to tell that to 2:30’s Face 2:39?
My Point is obviously poverty and racism DIDNT bog her down so much as to not be able to educte her children.
For those that feel it does, perhaps they should refrain from having children.
Is that such an outrageous thing to say? Or is the PC racism squad too entrenched to actually understand what I am saying?
1:04, 2:16 and others. Upward mobility for anyone who works hard enough is a conservative myth. Yes, there are exceptions and the mainstream media loves to talk about them, but for the most part, if you’re born poor in this country you stay poor.
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2006/04/b1579981.html
Yes 2:30, but how many barbeques did she take you to?
2:23..YOU JUST GOT BITCH-SLAPPED