Parents are abandoning troubled NYC public schools for private educationhttps://nypost.com/2021/03/10/why-parents-are-abandoning-troubled-nyc-public-schools/The March 22 reopening of the city’s 488 high schools sounds like a positive step, but parents aren’t rejoicing, since the hybrid model still leaves a majority of students learning from home. (Half the city’s high schools will resume full-time, in-person instruction for those who signed up, leaving about 80 percent of teens still learning remotely.)
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Fed-up public school parents, many of whom are philosophically aligned with a public education, are increasingly driven away from a disjointed system they feel keeps them in the dark.
While embattled Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza has resigned, there’s still deep mistrust. There have been sweeping changes to admissions, from unscreened middle schools to a monthslong lag in admissions decisions, leaving parents too shaky to wait until as late as June, instead of the usual March, to know where their kid lands next year. Since most private schools’ decisions come out in late February and early March, families are making the bitter sacrifice now — even if it puts them in the poor house.
“This is the time when people are deciding — a lot of people have to commit to a private school right now and they’re wondering what’s going to happen with public,†said educational consultant Alina Adams, who said that among the chief reasons parents are making the switch to private school is because of the new unscreened middle school policy, which will now offer spots based on a lottery system instead of academic metrics for competitive middle schools.
As Instapundit writer Sarah Hoyt said,
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/437437/ , "THEY’VE SEEN HOW THE SAUSAGE IS MADE AND THEY’VE HAD ENOUGH".
