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The Department of Education released a draft proposal for its plan to increase diversity throughout School District 15 this month, following a planning process that was increased by a year to allow for more public input.
The plan focuses on desegregating schools in Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, and Boerum Hill, by changing the existing zoning lines and shifting some admissions priority towards historically underserved students.
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In its draft plan, the District Planning Office recommended widening the zoning boundaries of certain schools, and shrinking the boundaries of others, in an effort to shift enrollment to schools that can handle it, and reduce enrollment at overcrowded schools.
The schools that the department has recommended increasing the zones for are PS 32 in Carroll Gardens, PS 38 in Boerum Hill, and PS 15 in Red Hook, while the schools it is recommending have their zones shrunk are PS 58 and PS 29 in Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill respectively — two of the most sought-after public elementary schools in Brooklyn.
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The department is also recommending giving 30 percent priority to underrepresented students in the admissions process to those schools in the zone that encompasses Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, and Red Hook.
Interesting. I wonder if this plan will slowly (or quickly) lead to parents taking their children out of public schools and putting them into private schools, which would make the move a fool's errand.
Interesting. I wonder if this plan will slowly (or quickly) lead to parents taking their children out of public schools and putting them into private schools, which would make the move a fool's errand.
It's already been happening, and things like this is only accelerating it.
People don't work to get the money to afford living in Cobble Hill to put up with their kids having to go to the same school as ghetto dirtbag kids from Brownsville.
That's just a fact, but I do sooo apologize for my tragically irresponsible behavior of stating a fact...
People don't work to get the money to afford living in Cobble Hill to put up with their kids having to go to the same school as ghetto dirtbag kids from Brownsville.
That's just a fact, but I do sooo apologize for my tragically irresponsible behavior of stating a fact...
If I was from Brownsville I would find that pretty offensive
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How well do you know Cobble Hill? Do you know there's million dollar houses across the street from NYCHA in Cobble Hill?
Yeah, and the "woke" crowd doesn't like that. How "dare" those "rich" people have kids that want a good education. We have to make things "equal". That's what the progressives talk about endlessly... "Equality"... It's such a farce to think that you're going to have things like economic equality in a capitalist society. Hell, even in communist Cuba, you don't have equality. These people need to get real. If they hate capitalism so much, leave the country and move to a communist one and see how much equality they'll have.
How well do you know Cobble Hill? Do you know there's million dollar houses across the street from NYCHA in Cobble Hill?
Ya know what? Good point, Red Hook is right there, but I don't know if I communicated this well; I'm not saying that, I'm saying that that is what parents in Cobble Hill may be saying (and they have in stores along Court St, Brooklyn Strategist etc...)
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It's such a farce to think that you're going to have things like economic equality in a capitalist society. Hell, even in communist Cuba, you don't have equality. These people need to get real. If they hate capitalism so much, leave the country and move to a communist one and see how much equality they'll have. 
