[wideawake]

If I am reading this right (please click on link for the full story), a multimillionaire from the Hamptons wants to engage in social engineering of a school far from where she lives. Any impact will not be on her or any of her family, friends, or neighbors.

You misinterpret.

The school is a magnet school with children coming from all over the city. The parents of these children are generally quite well-off - multimillionaires, many of them, in their own right.

Not only does Mrs. Ross have the right to fund and to set up a charter school if she gets all the proper permissions, the city is entitled to do whatever it wants with its property.

It is a quarrel between two groups of very wealthy New Yorkers over how taxpayers' money should be spent.

[mc6809e]

It is a quarrel between two groups of very wealthy New Yorkers over how taxpayers' money should be spent.

So they're fighting over their own money, then...

I don't blame them.

[freespirited]

Not only does Mrs. Ross have the right to fund and to set up a charter school if she gets all the proper permissions

I agree with that.

the city is entitled to do whatever it wants with its property.

More or less true.

Actually you misunderstood me. The article is somewhat ambiguous as to whether Ms. Ross is the impetus for moving her school into the NEST building. It does imply that she is. That was my point. That if this is true, she is advocating something the results of which have no impact on her.

That is a habit of liberals, you have to admit.

[CobaltBlue]

Like it or don't, the federal government is in the education business (No Child Left Behind) and one of the things it mandates is accelerated learning classes for "gifted and talented" children.

It also mandates special education for "special needs" children.

"Mainstreaming" gifted children with "special needs" children is insanity, social engineering at its worst.