NYC families leaving some of city’s top school districts at alarming rate

[Kamaji]

NYC families leaving some of city’s top school districts at alarming rate

By Selim Algar
February 17, 2022

They’re going, going, gone.

Families in some of the city’s top school districts are leaving the Department of Education at an alarming clip, according to state data.

Mayor Eric Adams speculated this week that parents who’ve ditched the city and its public schools are likely to return as soon as Gotham gathers itself.

But that ongoing flight — which is hammering school budgets — is hitting traditionally popular districts especially hard.

Elementary school enrollment in Manhattan’s District 2, which encompasses affluent areas like Greenwich Village and Soho, is down 10 percent this year and 17 percent over the last two.

According to state figures, the district went from roughly 16,040 kids in 2020 to over 13,333 this year — a loss of more than 2,500 students over that span.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/02/17/nyc-families-exiting-some-of-the-citys-top-school-districts/

[Kamaji]

Adams is smoking some serious weed if he thinks that people who go to all the trouble and expense of moving out of NYC and moving their kids to a new school are going to turn around and pull their kids out of their new schools just because NYC's economy starts doing better.

Ain't gonna happen, for two main reasons:  (1) if their apartment was rent stabilized or rent controlled, they were paying rent that was way under market, and they won't be able to get that back, so housing costs will be much pricier, and (2) kids don't like yo-yoing through different school districts and friend groups.

[DB]

The short answer is you only get to burn the bridge once.

Once burnt, there is no return.