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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Manhattan Country’s “radical commitment to socioeconomic diversity” created financial challenges that required “sustained philanthropy” from the community, the note said. This ought to have been self-evident, but significant fund-raising was consistently difficult in a context that was not flush with the kind of money floating around other Manhattan schools.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/nyregion/how-a-manhattan-private-school-with-a-utopian-mission-suddenly-collapsed.html

Article today about Manhattan Country School closing down suddenly due to financial problems. Seemed relevant to the discussion of the weight schools give/should give to financial need of the admitted class. [/quote]

I'm a Democrat who is to the left of most of America. I live near this school. And I read the NYT religiously and tend to agree with most of their perspectives (but definitely not all). But reading Ginia Bellefonte constantly twist stories in the most woke way possible is truly agonizing. This is typical of her.

This school is a disaster. The level of financial mismanagement is off the charts. They clearly bit off more than they could chew. The article throws in that they wanted to remain remote in September, 2021. That is craziness. In 2020-2021 schools gradually pivoted back to being at least partially in person. In the fall of 2021, all schools were almost completely in person, usually with some masking. By going overboard on this, they did not help themselves.

More importantly, these people are obsessed with diversity and equality. The school is a block from an incredible public school (PS9). It is next door to a very well run Success Academy. And it is several blocks from other public schools that are quite good, such as PS166, 84, etc. Those schools seem to accomplish what this school was trying to do, for free. PS9 and PS166 are fairly upper middle class but also draw a percentage of students from nearby NYCHA and similar situations. Both enrolled migrants. As do most other NYC public schools. So these parents are a bunch of hypocrites.

Hopefully that beautiful building in a prime location will be put to better use.[/quote]

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