East Side Parents Don't Want Their Kindergarten Kids Rezoned and Shipped to Roosevelt Island

Image of Roosevelt Island's PS/IS 217 from Geocities

The NY Sun is reporting today that:

With more families seeking to enroll children in public schools than many swiftly developing neighborhoods appear ready to accommodate, the Department of Education has quietly begun to explore a third-rail option: rezoning.

This may lead to the possibility that some families in the new Midtown East luxury condos having to send their children to nearby underutilized schools, such as Roosevelt Island's PS/IS 217 instead of the highly sought PS 116, and they don't like it.

"Frankly, telling a kindergarten parent that you're going to ship their kid to Roosevelt Island is not going to help you make friends and influence people," Ms. Silver said. "Why don't you send them to Princeton? It's crazy."

From the perspective of Roosevelt Island children going to PS/IS 217, an influx of new students may be the only way to secure more resources and programs for the school. More information on Roosevelt Island's PS/IS 217 is available here.