The Shifting School Equation
There wasn’t room to discuss it yesterday, but we suspect the public/private school issue is on a number of people’s minds. Over the weekend, The Times ran an article about the number of people who bought their apartments in recent years with the assumption that they would send their kids to private school. Now that…
There wasn’t room to discuss it yesterday, but we suspect the public/private school issue is on a number of people’s minds. Over the weekend, The Times ran an article about the number of people who bought their apartments in recent years with the assumption that they would send their kids to private school. Now that the economic downturn has made that a more difficult proposition, they are left to confront the limitations of their own school district. In some cases, parents are even considering renting a cheap apartment within a good school district just to get access—after all, it would be cheaper than the $30,000+ tuition in Manhattan. (It’s more like $25,000 here in Brooklyn.) Question for the renters and those in the market to buy in Brooklyn: Has the school issue shifted your real estate plans since the downturn began?
The Sudden Charm of Public School [NY Times]
Photo by Steve and Sara
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No one is dissing Queens. There’s a lot to be said for that borough, not least of all its schools.
I haz TWO toilets –
We ended up in the northwest corner of Westchester, along the CT border. We didn’t want something that felt very “suburban.” It feels a bit more like the countryside up here, certainly a more rural feel than southern Westchester, northern NJ or Long Island. Our cost of living, however, is about the same as as what we experienced in Brooklyn. No cashing out for us, as we were limited by my husband’s new commute to CT. Hell, we just felt lucky to sell our house when we did. A few weeks later and I fear my husband would still be making the 2 1/2 hour (each way) commute from Brookyn.
Since I have raised quite a few children in Brookyn and navigated the tricky public education system, I decided to post on this thread hoping that my research and experience might be useful to others out there. I was helped tremendously by other Brooklynites in this area over the years.
I remember when we were little we used to collect and bring Campbell’s Soup labels into school. Campbell’s would then donate items to the school like projects and the sort.
Does this still happen or am I just getting that old?
I know this is sacrilege on this web site but if you want the best public school education you will have to leave Manhattan and Brooklyn and trek it over to Queens. Yes, Queens, specifically District 26 which encompasses Bayside, Little Neck and Douglaston. And before all you brownstone dwelling troglodytes tell me I’m crazy for suggesting you move to Queens, let me tell you that Queens is the most diverse neighborhood on the planet, has plenty of cultural treasures including the new Chinatown in Flushing, the new Met’s stadium, Colleges, Historical sites, beautiful parks, historical victorian housing stock and you can walk around at night without the Glock. And you can still use mass transit; the Bayside stop on the LIRR or the 7 train to Main street.
Hipsters and poseurs need not apply. This one is aimed at the parents, you know who I’m talking about.
I am heading over to Donoroschoose.org now!
Wow – Mulatto – that’s what my husband’s grandmother was listed as on the 1910 census in Alabama
is that what we are calling mixed race people…still?
I guess better than half-breed I suppose
Architerrorist — if you don’t mind my asking, where did you relocate to? While my husband and I very much want to stay in NYC, we’re slowly starting to consider moving elsewhere. I’m always interested to know where former New Yorkers landed.
Chicken — thanks for the link to DonorsChoose.org. I’m heading there now to put my dollars where my mouth is.
“The children who attend that school deserve better than they get, as do all children. But it’s unreasonable to ask me or other parents to throw our children on the pyre of social change. If I sent my children to that school, the only thing that would change is their attitude towards going to school.”
There’s your real QOTD from Brooklyn Chicken.
I’ll do what I can to support whatever school my kid goes to, but I’m certainly not going to send him into a bad situation as some type of social cannon fodder to help clean up the mess the parents, teachers, administrators, and kids who were there before he was born created.
Colonel Steve Austin:
“sterile or gay does that exempt you from subsidizing procreators.” First it was the mulatto crack, now the gays, “when does it end.”
Earth to 6 million dollar man. Mulatto in 1854 New Orleans, maybe, in 2009 Brooklyn, no.
And gay people have children and complain about their schools endlessly on stupid websites (that would be me…)