East Side Parents Don't Want Their Kindergarten Kids Rezoned and Shipped to Roosevelt Island
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.
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I am not surprised about the uproar. Midtown East and Roosevelt Island are too different demographic wise.
That said, though, it would be really good news for PS 217, of course. The influx of wealthier families always means improvements. That's how the DOE has been using the Gifted & Talented programs. They put them in underperforming schools (like PS 116 used to be, or PS 11, that is on its way to become a really good school) and let the more involved, more affluent families fix the problems.
I hope, though, that with such a move RI will finally be seen as a real part of school district 2 and we will have yellow bus services going in and out of RI.
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