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You've read this rant from me before, but guess what, you can read it again!
Our part of the Island has urgently needed elementary schools for the better part of a dozen years. Now we're finally getting them, slowly, but the problem is the same as it is in Lower Manhattan - the kids those schools were intended for are outgrowing them and have for the past three or four years! If the situation is this bad for elementary schools that even THREE DAYS into the school year multiple families are still scrambling for spots, how awful must it be in middle school already? But we're not going to get any relief on that front before Ana enters middle school. The DoE is so shortsighted about these things, and the parental pressure squad isn't much better. When they found their various kids couldn't get into a good kindergarten, they should've at that time started in on the pressure for new middle schools! But of course, nobody did, and now we're all out of luck on that front.
Our part of the Island has urgently needed elementary schools for the better part of a dozen years. Now we're finally getting them, slowly, but the problem is the same as it is in Lower Manhattan - the kids those schools were intended for are outgrowing them and have for the past three or four years! If the situation is this bad for elementary schools that even THREE DAYS into the school year multiple families are still scrambling for spots, how awful must it be in middle school already? But we're not going to get any relief on that front before Ana enters middle school. The DoE is so shortsighted about these things, and the parental pressure squad isn't much better. When they found their various kids couldn't get into a good kindergarten, they should've at that time started in on the pressure for new middle schools! But of course, nobody did, and now we're all out of luck on that front.
