Tuesday Blogwrap
Brooklyn Is Cool Until You Start Reading About It [Gawker] Parents Call For More Elementary School Options [The Local] RAFFLE PRIZE OF THE CENTURY: $100 at Five Leaves [Brokelyn] ioby: A Big Idea that Funds Little Projects [BB] 26-year-old Woman Falls on L Train Tracks, is OK! [FREEwilliamsburg] Photo by xbettyx.
Brooklyn Is Cool Until You Start Reading About It [Gawker]
Parents Call For More Elementary School Options [The Local]
RAFFLE PRIZE OF THE CENTURY: $100 at Five Leaves [Brokelyn]
ioby: A Big Idea that Funds Little Projects [BB]
26-year-old Woman Falls on L Train Tracks, is OK! [FREEwilliamsburg]
Photo by xbettyx.
It’s not a new school, it’s an expansion of Arts and Letters, and I’m all for it. Dist. 13 has very few schools that appeal to middle/upper middle class parents, who are busy taking their offspring and $$$ to private schools and District 15 unzoned, i.e. BNS. PS 20 has a real opportunity to expand, but given its current student base is likely to be a more traditional school for some time to come. Fort Greene/Clinton Hill can support another public school, and the PS 20 building is undercapacity. If 20/A&L don’t expand, the clueless DOE is likely to shove another charter school in there.
Meanwhile, Arts & Letters is a very successful launch, and I think if they can replicate their model for younger students it’s all to the good.
By the way, PS 8 also is in Dist. 13.
D13 is not starved for good schools. For privates, there’s Waldorf, Free School, Greene Hill, etc. For charters there’s Community Roots and Ethical Partnership (or something, I forget the exact name). For publics there’s 20, 11 and 56, all of which have their strengths. The DOE HAS NO MONEY. Programs are being slashed left and right. In this environment how does it make sense to open more schools? How does it serve the community to open another school just because (and am I overgeneralizing here or not?) some parents are afraid to send their kids to 20?
D13 is starved for good schools. I’m not sure parents want more choices, but they want better ones. There is opportunity there, because most of the elementaries in D13 are undercapacity, but moving schools around and closing neighborhood schools would lead to much screaming.
kensingtonian is right, it’s Ditmas Ave. Thanks for the heads up on the cuisine, I know now not to try it. The new Pollo Rancherito is looking fabulous however! Will definitely check that out once it’s open
I’m not sure why I admit to this wildly unpopular opinion… but I do not want more “choices” for my child’s education. What I want is for all “choices” and all children to have the same funds allocated to them. And, frankly, splitting the pot is not going to accomplish that. If PS 20 isn’t rich enough for your socioeconomic needs, move to a different zone. Or go private. The problematic principal is gone. So, now what is the problem, exactly?
This immediate area, this district 13, has four different private schools and two charters. It also has how many elementaries? How is more efficient to add more?
Sorry, I admit some ignorance, and being zoned (for what it is worth) for the “good” public in Clinton Hill… but rallying to create more schools? Not the answer.
Gawer actually pays people to write that stuff? Sounds like it was composed in between rounds.
Urban Outfitters ripping off original designs of Brooklyn Flea vendors:
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/33/22/all_urbancounterfeit_2010_05_28_bk.html
Cool, but just where is this place (the restaurant, that is).
Pete, it’s a mix of Russki and Turkish food. Mostly Shish-kebabs. Pretty sure the pic is taken right by my house on Ditmas Avenue and East 4th. AND the restuarant awning that you see has DISGUSTING food. Don’t go there!