Posted on 05/29/2021 7:27:14 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Enrollment in city public schools has fallen below 890,000 students — down from more than a million kids a decade ago, according to internal Department of Education records viewed by The Post...
... Clearly, families have left DOE schools in droves since the pandemic threw the system into turmoil, and continue to seek alternatives.
“This year, parents are so unhappy with what they think they’re going to get in September, they’d rather opt for a charter or a private school or leave the city,” said Alina Adams, a mother of three and author who runs the website NYC School Secrets.
Several parents told The Post they have fled the system because the DOE was disorganized and their kids were falling behind. Others say the DOE has diminished its focus on accelerated-learning programs, such as Gifted & Talented, and become more “political” than academic.
“I’m a huge proponent of public school education. I never in my life thought I’d send my kids anywhere else,” said Stefanie Trilling, who is transferring her 6-year-old daughter, Shira, from PS 33 in Manhattan to the $41,000-a-year United Nations International School. “It’s breaking my heart to pull my daughter from a school that we love for the sole reason that the city is undermining one of the programs that made the school so great.”
Natalia Petrzela, who transferred her third-grade daughter from a Manhattan elementary to a pricey private school after Thanksgiving, said, “It transformed her life. She went from this scattershot, hybrid schedule with lots of video, even in the classroom, to five days a week in person with a real live teacher. That was a game changer.”
Petrzela, a history professor at the New School, said she is “extraordinarily privileged” but remains committed to speaking out about the public schools. ... ...
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
My guess is that many of them opted out of NYC.
Parents need to team up in neighborhoods and home school these kids!!!
The public “school” system is money laundering for the Demoncrat Party. Period.
Student: But where will I go for my government indoctrination sessions, I mean classes? I so want to learn about the many genders and how to change to another one, the way America was founded to exploit blacks as slaves by systemic racism, and how terrible the whites in America are. I’m gonna cry.
United Nations School sure doesn’t sound hopeful to me!!!
Let me guess, they’ll ask for a bigger budget next year.
And there will be ZERO reductions in upper management at the department of Ed.
And zero cuts in the Dept of Ed Budget.
Not as long as Shoeless Joe Manchin voted to send the Rat cities and states a bailout check every 6 months via Senate budget reconciliation. Thanks for truly helping the voters of West Virginia, Joe M.
Ping!
Reductions? Hah. The budget is up substantially. It’s infrastructure don’t you know.
Should be at least a 50% drop
Disappearing, but just imagine the shape they’ll be in when they come back
That’s saying something because even Mitt Romney voted against the bill.
Not so fast.
In 2011, NYC Dept of Education Budget was $23.17 Billion, for 1.04 million students.
In 2021, NYC Det of Education Budget was $34 Billion, for 889 thousand students.
-PJ
Or maybe the UN school students will be the most protected children in the country.
Parents, the public school is not what you remember it to be.
If any real good comes from the whole Covid thing, it will be that many parents have found that public education has become worthless and destructive to their kids.
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