From the Daily News:Parents and elected officials in Long Island City are blasting the city for failing to plan for a population boom that has put a strain on the only public school in the area with a prekindergarten program.
Recent housing developments have forced parents to sweat through the pre-K enrollment process. The deadline to submit applications for a child to enter the citywide pre-K lottery was Friday.
There were 91 applicants last year for the 36 full-day pre-K seats available at Public School 78 - the only program in the 11101 zip code.
Officials at the Department of Education said limited funding has stymied its ability to tackle the problem, even though the issue is on the department's radar.
Welcome to Queens, tower people!
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Funny how there is always plenty of money for City Planning and EDC.
They will need it for all the Queens Plaza lawsuits that are about to start their way through the process.
Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan (D-Ridgewood) said she can't understand why the city has not addressed the problem.
"Parents have been talking about this for 10 years and asking for the city to respond, and they haven't," Nolan said.
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If you knew this was a problem that goes back years why in the hell didn't you hold back the building until its address, you @#$&@@#.
Let the LIC hipsters send their kids to private pre-K!
Why should the city wipe their asses for them with our tax dollars.
Let the developers who put up those mega buildings subsidize pre-K.
I Call bullshit. It's daycare
"I Call bullshit. It's daycare"
Absolutely right.
How much is spent on this nonsense?
I Call bullshit. It's daycare
Absolutely. Pre-k isn't required, and is a privilege to attend for free. Kindergarten is as well, for that matter. NYS curriculum (and most states) does not mandate kindergarten, although it's an unwritten rule that all children will attend on the taxpayer's dime.
These LIC people need to STFU and move back to Kansas.
Actually, I believe this is part of "Head Start" which was supposed to be for disadvantaged kids. So why the hell are rich asswipes from LIC signing up for it and then whining about not getting in? There should be income limits for it.
The problem is not the people, unless you want to legislate banning births.
It the pols encouraging people to move into an area, plunking down their money (to help the pol's campaign donating developers) knowing full well that the community does not have the resources, or being next to a busy trainyard and atop a brownfield, a totally inappropriate place for young families.
The problem is not the people, unless you want to legislate banning births.
The problem is that these people moved into this area without doing their due diligence. Would you move into a neighborhood that didn't have sufficent services: schools, hospitals, fire, police?
The problem is not the people, unless you want to legislate banning births.
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Well, yes.
2 children per family max, and you must show supporting documents that show your ability to cover costs.
This is NOT just a PROBLEM in LIC. It's across the entire city.
Look at Flushing!
City officials approved developments without looking at the infrastructure of the schools. KIDS are suffering!
The problem is that these people moved into this area without doing their due diligence. Would you move into a neighborhood that didn't have sufficent services: schools, hospitals, fire, police?
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Where are you going to do this? What media reports the truth on these things, and even here, the public seems loath to blame the pols for diverting tax money from benefiting those who pay it, to developers who benefit from it.
I mean people get real. Schools are cut, hospitals close, senior programs are threatened, but did anyone see City Planning howling?
The problem is that these people moved into this area without doing their due diligence. Would you move into a neighborhood that didn't have sufficent services: schools, hospitals, fire, police?
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1.Find us one neighborhood where these resources are sufficient in NYC.
2. If everyone is feverishly talking about adding another million people - and we mean academics, preservation groups, the whole nine yards, and glowing report after another says how fine things are, while anyone with an ounce of common sense knows that the infrastructure is groaning at the point of collapse, are we all victims of a mass hysteria?
I never went to pre-K.
I never even went to K.
Started in the 1st grade and graduated with honors from NYU.
What a crock!
The problem is not the people, unless you want to legislate banning births.
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Well, yes.
2 children per family max, and you must show supporting documents that show your ability to cover costs.
YES!! ABSOLUTELY NO MORE BIRTHS THE PLANET IS TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY!
Come on Cathy, Jimmy, why don't you call a press conference with the parents and hear their concerns?
What are you afraid of?
bring back Cathy Black and birth control pills,and planned parenthood (abortion). no more sanctuary for anchor babies and their illegal alien parents.
it is all UNSUSTAINABLE at this time of O----, B--------,fuzzy math budgets.
Come on Cathy, Jimmy, why don't you call a press conference with the parents and hear their concerns?
What are you afraid of?
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Ahhh.....ummmmmm....Someone from Queens discovering the joys of an unscripted moment with an elected official in front of the camera?
Naw, never will happen.
how could this be when, according to the Census, our population has decreased?
No its increased big time there -
its just that Jose and Eng and Jonsunder and Clovis have replaced Archie and Patrick and they ain't too keen on being counted.
>>I never went to pre-K.
I never even went to K.
Started in the 1st grade and graduated with honors from NYU.
It's not that hard to graduate from NYU, you pretentious HO!
"Jonsunder"?
Is he that big hulking Swede I saw yesterday?
if these people actually looked around their new neighborhood before they started spending $4,000 a month on a studio apt, they would've seen that its 80% industrial mixed in with a few stores and old tenement houses. Instead they clicked the "BUY NOW!" button on their computer from their farm in Idaho and took the Amtrak here because it's hip and they want to be an "artist". Go home.
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I'm sure that Cathie Black will be glad to know that there's one person in this city who wants her to come back.
why not ? unlike many of the N.Y.C., D.O.E. female mgt.,she is married to a man and gave birth to her children normally.
Hearst Publishing prospered with her expert guidance and so did the corporate employees .
can you name one "chancellor" who has increased the graduation numbers or s.a.t. scores, honestly, in the past sixty years ?
walcott will be unsuccessful also. progressive tactics in education , left-wing union leadership and social engineering, are dooming the children of n.y.c. schools.
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