Posted on 02/28/2006 6:15:27 PM PST by george76
in kalifornica your wait will be an ETERNITY!
Sounds like some moving trucks might be headed from Manhattan to Greenwich and Morristown.
to $31,000 private schools in manhattan and riverdale?
I wasn't referring to private schools in general - I understand that some parent's do stretch to make that bill for their kids, I was only talking about the people who send their kids to these kinds of private schools. when you are pulling down $700K on wall street, with a $500K bonus - they can afford it.
In truth, your average PS in the city is no better, no worse, than what you find in suburbia. Of course, don't tell that to the folks on Lawn Guyland and Leftchester who pay enough in property taxes to send two kids to private school.
Just pray you don't have a child with special needs.
Most private schools can't handle kids with special needs. Even if they do, then parents have to pay extra for therapy, resource specialists, etc. Not to mention, parents then have to drive to all of those therapies.
I'm not saying public schools are great. We're having a horrible year this year. But the reality is that it is very difficult to handle a special needs kid, and sometimes that means sending them to public school.
garden city, oyster bay, north shore places like glen cove and port washington - all very good.
Not to sure how familiar you are with CA education. The state has tried to implement a high school graduation test as a requirement of graduation. The state delays the implentation each year because not enough students can pass. Each time this year, all the liberal newspapers, report that the test is racist against those that can't speak english.
NYC is a meritocracy on a lot of levels. People find that offensive for some reason.
bump
Prop 13.
(you may throw stones at me now).
Me, I received a wonderful education at home via my father's library. Then, I went to a Carmelite High School where you were more than a number. The PSs I attended previously were awful, despite having "good reputations" at the time.
In my zip code and adjacent ones, the public schools really are quite excellent. Both of my law partners have kids in public schools, and are very satisfied.
Education is the MOST IMPORTANT investment with concern to our kids. All the video games, vacation trips, and little league games pale in comparison.
I'm just pissed that I have to pay property taxes higher than the average (ie non-NYC) tuition for mediocre to poor schools.
I just love how the schools in CA just keep on wanting more money.
I live in San Jose, and our district closed the wonderful public school that my kids were going to. It was rated one of the best public schools in the area, but the district closed it instead of one of their failing schools. They didn't want to close a school in the primarily Hispanic neighborhoods because of the impact closing the school would have on the neighborhood. In reality, they didn't want to close the schools in the Hispanic neighborhoods because they get Title 1 funding because most of their students are poor.
Now, we're in public school H***. We're on the wait list for a charter school, but there are issues with us transferring there because of my daughters' special needs.
I'm debating going with the district home study program.
Even in Orange County, the Public Schools must be all things to all people. Unless your kid is on the honors track, he is screwed, to say nothing of the fact that he must attend school (even in the OC) with the kids from "the rentals"/section 8s. No thanks.
I was throughing NJ on the shirt tales to the direction NYC was going.
Mine are in Catholic school and the tuition has gone way up since the kids started plus started adding surcharges on. No kidding, surcharges.
OV, the costs when you add on all the extras plus the tuition is not that far behind.
The state spends tons of the income tax it collects on public schools, about half the budget (the top rate (except for those earning over a million per a recent initiative to fund mental health services) is 9.3% over about 50K in income). Prop 13 isn't the issue.
A press release from 2004:
"New York City Industrial Development Agency announces preliminarily approval for real estate and sales tax benefits for two industrial companies, Big Apple Distributors of New York Inc. and Portfab LLC, to help them to stay and expand in Bronx. The IDA Board also approved tax incentives for Related Retail Hub LLC, an affiliate of The Related Companies, and financing assistance for three not-for-profit organizations - United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc. and Riverdale Country School. These transactions will spur the investment of $175 million in capital projects and retain and create more than 1,100 jobs."
We beat the high cost of private school tuition for the younger two by homeschooling. ;o) Actually our youngest son did go to the private high school our older two sons attended, for two years, but we decided this year to homeschool him for the last two years. He's thrilled cause he'll be able to attend a local Community college for a couple of the courses that he WANTS and not have to sit through a full day of classes. He can do all the other stuff at home. Our daughter homeschooled from the 8th grade on, and graduates this year.
Interesting.
California public education -- including the university system -- was a gem that has been allowed to fall into disrepair.
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