Lol that was good but as always you have little of value to add.

I would say the people who move here tend to be generally well informed, and the lack of information is more due to the media doing a horrible job.

I’m not a school expert but I know that there’s a lack of school options and physical school buildings.

The school system is not doing so hot. Probably time to try something new.

A new school is very good news. I remember signing a petition for this a year or two ago

Love this!!!!

Yea be careful. In general don’t go anywhere with strangers who are asking for money or saying they will give you money. Just tell people who try to sell you things on the street no thank you.

No the school board retained the power to increase the school tax levy. It is an independent power granted to them, independent from the city budget. It just didn’t do it for many many years until the state announced it was withdrawing . Probably since they were allied with the mayor at that time and didn’t want to increase taxes. Think the days of the dishonorable sudhan thomas. They have an allowable increase of a few percent per year (don’t remember the number). When the state announced their cuts few years ago I read up a lot on civic JC’s blog. They only started doing that when it became a big commotion. So instead of being proactive, they fell behind and had a much larger deficit than they would have.

Your question translates to: "Asides from the recent disastrous, unnecessarily prolonged remote education experiment that you specifically mentioned, what are other examples of BOE not caring". Its a silly question because for me the COVID handling was outrageous and disqualifying on its own. I guess I could think of some. Horrible food options. Horrible bussing options. They didnt raise the school tax levy for years, only deciding to do so when it was an emergency since the state withdrew their funding (which was inevitable). And the pandemic is still ongoing. Who is to say they wont decide to close schools again for a winter peak. Nobody knows because they haven't said anything.

I understand people wanting to protect themselves of course. But it must be acknowledged that this was at the expense of children's educations. Remote schooling was ineffective and this was both obvious before and during remote schooling, and proven with test scores after the fact. And remote school ended in JC public schools WELL after covid vaccine was available, and well after private schools and other public schools opened.

There was a whole range of workers deemed essential workers who were required to report in person to their jobs since they are deemed essential to society. These included people who stack boxes and sandwich makers. I believe in person teachers are much more essential than sandwich makers. Teaching in person and in person school for children was obviously better for kids than remote BS that was extended for way too long. It was very disappointing to see the refusal to reopen the schools and repeated excuses. And worse, they have never acknowledged their mistakes, which raises the question if they will repeat the same mistakes in the future...

My take on the LeFrak backing is... They have an incentive to make schools better, which is that it makes their luxury housing more attractive if the schools are actually good. The shitty schools causes people to move out of their apartments. So trying to actually improve the schools makes sense.

The other team (education matters) has clearly shown that the main driver of their policies is not improvement of childrens' educations. Their incentive seems to be to keep the teachers and unions happy, which of course is important, but is not the same as improving the educational standards of our schools.

I will vote again for the Change for Children over the Education Matters slate.

Which is just budget differences… not education policies

Even articles that talk about school board issues don’t really give information. Most of this is just platitudes. Not one mention of the irresponsible extended covid school closures that lasted a full year, making JC a severe outlier, and really stunting childrens’ educations.

No parking any time sign takes precedence over anything, so no.

Thank you

I tried to buy a newspaper from the one in Newport. It’s just a candy store now lol. I forget why I wanted an actual paper.