Bronx Science from Brooklyn
Our child was accepted to Bronx Science for next year. Does anyone know how kids from Brooklyn (Park Slope) get there? Do parents get together and hire a bus? Or is it the long subway ride only? Would love to be in touch with anyone going there now or next year.
Our child was accepted to Bronx Science for next year. Does anyone know how kids from Brooklyn (Park Slope) get there? Do parents get together and hire a bus? Or is it the long subway ride only? Would love to be in touch with anyone going there now or next year.
“Wow – guess they really don’t focus much on English skills at Brooklyn Tech!
Posted by: Park Sloper at February 10, 2010 11:34 AM”
BTW…
I think you forgot an ‘I’.
Oh get over it Park Sloper. It is my third language and this is the internet. Nobody cares about grammar Nazis in the web. And if that is your contribution to this thread, it is rather pathetic.
Crimsonson wrote: “I myself is a Tech alumni.”
Wow – guess they really don’t focus much on English skills at Brooklyn Tech!
Brownstone Brooklyn kids having to commute has always at issue because of — other than Tech — the absolute absence of good rigorous safe High Schools Downtown. On the non-specialized front, upset parents are accusing the Department of Education of purposefully blocking Brownstone BK children from attending Millennium HS, a strong lower Manhattan HS that traditionally takes BK kids. There have been complaints that even siblings have been blocked. One could walk to this school from Downtown Brooklyn in a pinch, while Midwood & Murrow seem as far away as the moon for a Park Sloper. Are they catering too much to Manhattan parents and neglecting the other boroughs? Sounds suspicious to me; DOE should be called on this.
In 2000 my daughter started attending Bronx Science. My wife and I were anxious about sending her on the subway. We paid for a van for round trip transportation from Brooklyn. Within a couple of months my daughter began making friends at the school and rarely rode the van home. I had signed an annual contract for the van ride and was stuck with the cost. So, if your child and you are comfortable with the subway ride, save yourself some money. My daughter never complained about the length of the ride. She was too busy socializing. I can’t recall her complaining of any subway incidents. There were a couple of inconveniences caused by illness and there was 9/11 tragedy. Bronx Science is far from Brooklyn both by rail and car. Tech is far more convenient. For my daughter Bronx Science was the better academic fit.
Thanks. I guess it sounds like the subway is the way to go and part of the experience of going to Bronx Science is the commute. And Ishtar and Architerrorist thanks for understanding. I sort of meant a van not a bus – thought it might make the morning commute a bit less stressful, and yes kids could get together from the area and bond and compare notes, or sleep.
Btw, the Tribeca kids have buses that head up there every morning that also make a drop at Lehman – why isn’t there a service like this for Brooklyn kids? Or do our kids have to tough it out?
I am not saying that eventually we wouldn’t just use the subway especially once they hit 15 or so, but some Freshman are young and have not traveled a lot by subway on their own to other boroughs for an hour and a half each way. And thanks carroll2stones for some great suggestions.
Grew up in Park Slope. I tested in to Stuy but chose the 10 minute walk to Berkeley Carroll instead. I’m sure my parents weren’t too happy about that but it was great for me.
Remind me to leave this city when it’s time to send my kids to high school. 3 hours per day on the train is a LOT. I used to make that commute for a VERY good job and my quality of life really suffered. Hopefully you can get enough parents together in Park Slope for a bus. This will definitely give the kids time to bond with other kids in the nabe attending BxSci and not so long of a commute (provided there isn’t a bunch of traffic).
“I’m sure you can find a collective of Brooklyn parents to pull it off”
Especially in Park Slope, the last bastion of collectives in the Free World!