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So you admit that common core applies to all NYS public schools. That's a start.
And you seem to recognize that it is in fact much harder to fire an incompetent teacher in NYC than in most Westchester school districts. That's a fact, so lets stop there without the if-and-but qualifiers.
As for the top 1%, hardly. But 4% (NYC income tax) of my salary plus what I'd pay on property taxes on a home in the city of about 75% size - that comes in just under my property taxes. Your experience my vary, especially with the convenience of a magic hat.
Of course the chattering upper middle classes have much more to gain from this than those minorities stuck in NYC failing schools. After all, its a "cause." At least there's more honesty now about just how far behind those schoolchildren were and where they need to go. And those darn common core standards mean we can now actually objectively compare with.... other states and even worse, other countries. The horror of shining the light of day on this.
Your appeal to the authority of your credentials is both curious, since you seemed to display a lack of knowledge in your first posts (read them again) and not really supporting your argument, since it betrays a motivated ideology.
Forest_Hills_Daddy it is simply untrue that progressives are only in southern Westchester. Each Westchester town has its particular characteristics. Hastings-on-Hudson tends to attract a progressive resident. So do Katonah, Ossining (lots of Bank Street faculty) and Croton. I do not think of Briarcliff in that context at all.
my daughter is in a progressive public school on the LES. We are considering moving to westchester/yonkers or just finding a cheaper place in queens. Schools are a big deciding factor. Curious to hear if you found any schools with high opt-out to testing or anything resembling a progressive school in westchester?
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