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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Free stuff funded by billionaires" literally who has a problem with that other than (some) billionaires?[/quote]

Common sense people who know that top 1% of NY tax payers already pay 46.3% of income tax.

Mamdani might want to chat to the Mayor of Chicago and ask him what happened to city finances after one of the largest tax payers - Ken Griffin - had moved to Miami. Spoiler: things didn't go well. Socialism only works until you run out of other people's money and it doesn't take long. [/quote]

Yup. The anti-rich obsessed people are so dumb. I am not opposed to making the rich pay a bit more. But treating them like the enemy and really jacking up their tax rates is not a good idea. They pay a ton of taxes and create a lot of jobs.

All of these idiots are going to get exactly what they wished for and then when the city is awful they won't know what to do.

And to the G&T obsessed. How about working to make your neighborhood school great. Put in the time and effort. If you can convince all of the parents in your neighborhood to be as committed to academic excellence as you claim to be, the school will rise to that level. It doesn't need a label to be excellent. Otherwise move.[/quote]

Be right back. I’m going to convince Jamal to make the school better. He should volunteer between his fentanyl dealing shifts. He hasn’t seen his son in eight years but now is the time to STEP UP for the neighborhood school to show it to the Asians who use G&T[/quote]

Holy racist, Batman.

[b]How about if all of the Russian families in Brighton Beach or all of the Chinese families in Chinatown or whatever else commit to making their neighborhood zoned elementary school great[/b]. A friend of mine in another city lives in an up and coming neighborhood. Families started committing to sending their kids to the previously awful local public schools (run by the large city) and spending time and money (primarily time) to make them great. They are now much better schools that have become highly desirable, with the local previously average local high school now sending many kids to top colleges.

It's not easy but if people spent more time doing this than posting on message boards, going to PLACE meetings and generally whining perhaps they can make it work. A school can be a naturally occurring G&T program without being labeled as one. This is effectively what happens at top zoned schools in D2, D3 and other neighborhoods. PS6 is better than most G&T. And it isn't all rich kids - the joke is that half the kids there are the kids of building supers for buildings where the actual residents go to private.[/quote]

In case you are asking your question sincerely, in order for what you describe to happen, in addition to sending the kids to the local school (which btw majority in Brighton Beach and Flushing do), the families need to demand and receive accountability from teachers and administrators.  You need a certain level of social capital for that, otherwise all you get back is “you stupid immigrants don’t understand the American ways” as this thread amply demonstrates.  [/quote]

To that previous poster who mentioned the Chinese families: send your own kid to a school that is majority Hispanic and black. Then come back and let us know your thoughts on G&T.

P.S. PS 6 is a meme school for rich people to go K-8 and feel good about how charitable they are before going to Horace Mann. [/quote]

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