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I'm curious. I grew up in Brooklyn in the 80's. Most everyone I knew growing up went to parochial school. NYC Public schools at the time were not well regarded or favored.
Since moving to NJ, I see such a differentiation in mentality. Everyone wants to live in a good town with good public schools but nobody suggests moving a nice or decent town and sending your kids to a private school. Huge deals are made on the status of the public schools in towns when people inquire about potentially buying there. It was the standard m.o. for me growing up.
Because you pay high property taxes, so you might as well get your monies worth. In comparison, NYC prices are much cheaper. Westchester and LI are worse than NJ and thus the similar mentality.
Private schools in NJ aren't so great a lot of the time. (or perhaps more accurately, the public schools are much better than in NYC on average). Better than a bad school system, but usually worse-regarded than the good public districts.
I'm curious. I grew up in Brooklyn in the 80's. Most everyone I knew growing up went to parochial school. NYC Public schools at the time were not well regarded or favored.
Since moving to NJ, I see such a differentiation in mentality. Everyone wants to live in a good town with good public schools but nobody suggests moving a nice or decent town and sending your kids to a private school. Huge deals are made on the status of the public schools in towns when people inquire about potentially buying there. It was the standard m.o. for me growing up.
NJ has high property taxes because it largely funds it's public school system this way. And because of this way of funding education, NJ has a pretty impressive public school system. People want to live in good towns because they can take advantage of good schools that they're already paying for through their property taxes. There is no need to send your kid to private schools if you live in a decent town.
I'm curious. I grew up in Brooklyn in the 80's. Most everyone I knew growing up went to parochial school. NYC Public schools at the time were not well regarded or favored.
Since moving to NJ, I see such a differentiation in mentality. Everyone wants to live in a good town with good public schools but nobody suggests moving a nice or decent town and sending your kids to a private school. Huge deals are made on the status of the public schools in towns when people inquire about potentially buying there. It was the standard m.o. for me growing up.
Because not all private schools are created equally and the really good ones cost a lot. A good one like CBA, will cost over $50k and that is just for high school.
Meanwhile, living in Fair Haven with get you a great school like RFH and its free.
Because not all private schools are created equally and the really good ones cost a lot. A good one like CBA, will cost over $50k and that is just for high school.
50K/year for high school? Is that including room and board, or just the tuition?
I went to Catholic School. Would never send my kids there.
Agreed, it was a joke from an educational standpoint. Don't know if its still this way today, but there was no regulations when it came to what was being taught, and teachers were paid about 1/3 of what public school teachers made. If you're a good teacher in New Jersey, you teach at a public school. Catholic schools get the leftovers.
You can find good public schools all over America that do a good job educating their students without home owners being soaked to death with insane property taxes. Why some people in NJ are conditioned to believe that outrageous property taxes are vital for good public schools is beyond me.
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