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Old Feb 21st 2016, 2:19 pm
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Originally Posted by Muswellmum
Also does anyone have a view on the United nations school?
I really think your best bet will be a town in New Jersey, as noted by Jerseygirl in her prior post. As JG said, I suggest you read all the info that Englishmum has posted and take it from there -- including canvasing your OH's new colleagues-to-be as to where they live.
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Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
The parents of children who attended our local schools usually paid tens of thousand of dollars a year in property taxes. Property taxes more or less fund local schools. Therefore most of the families who lived there sent their kids to local schools.

Are local schools better than private...I have mixed feelings.
This is actually a very interesting side point. It used to be that paying your taxes so that schools were properly funded was a no brainer. Totally non-partisan issue nobody argued it because it was he right thing to do. Now you have States like Kansas whose once great public schools are in severe danger due to people like Brownback running on platforms of cutting taxes and then cutting them further when it doesn't work.
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Originally Posted by sir_eccles
..... Now you have States like Kansas whose once great public schools are in severe danger due to people like Brownback running on platforms of cutting taxes and then cutting them further when it doesn't work.
Which is popular with the large minority of voters who are tired of funding freeloaders who have neither the skills nor motivation to contribute significantly, or in many cases, at all to the system that supports them.

I understand that not everyone is going to be a high roller, but when the middle classes confine their families usually to no more than 2-3 children, it is galling to see those on minimum wage jobs, income subsidies, and food stamps with 4-5 children or more!

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Old Feb 21st 2016, 6:48 pm
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Default Re: Schools - moving to New York with 3 children

Originally Posted by Pulaski
Which is popular with the large minority of voters who are tired of funding freeloaders who have neither the skills nor motivation to contribute significantly, or in many cases, at all to the system that supports them.

I understand that not everyone is going to be a high roller, but when the middle classes confine their families usually to no more than 2-3 children, it is galling to see those on minimum wage jobs, income subsidies, and food stamps with 4-5 children or more!
Umm I wasn't talking about benefits. I was talking about basic services. Schools, police, roads, water etc.

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Originally Posted by sir_eccles
Umm I wasn't talking about benefits. I was talking about basic services. Schools, police, roads, water etc. ....
So was I The emphasis is on "not paying in", as much as it is what you get out.
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Old Feb 21st 2016, 7:40 pm
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Originally Posted by Pulaski
So was I The emphasis is on "not paying in", as much as it is what you get out.
I'm confused. Why can't poor people have clean drinking water or good schools? Maybe if they get educated and given a chance to get a job then they can "pay in". You just want to perpetuate the divide between the haves and the have nots.
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I'm confused. Why can't poor people have clean drinking water or good schools? Maybe if they get educated and given a chance to get a job then they can "pay in". You just want to perpetuate the divide between the haves and the have nots.
The divide should be between the "wills" and the "won'ts", not the haves and the have nots. Unfortunately the children tend to become collateral damage. There are too many people who do very little with the talents they do have.

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Originally Posted by Pulaski
The divide should be between the "wills" and the "won'ts", not the haves and the have nots. Unfortunately the children tend to become collateral damage. There are too many people who do very little with the talents they do have.

Some children's "talents" are best left un-encouraged.
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Some children's "talents" are best left un-encouraged.
I have this theory that inside every left-leaning public sector worker there is a right-leaning realist trying to get out.
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Old Feb 25th 2016, 2:59 am
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Default Re: Schools - moving to New York with 3 children

Originally Posted by Muswellmum
Oh no it sounds like abit of a nightmare! Maybe we should try to stay in Singapore?
What about the public schools? Is there a good one that anyone would recommend? Someone here has mentioned Bronxville high school but as I will have a junior middle and high school it could get complicated!
Bronxville HS, middle school and elementary school are all in one block together. Excellent school district, extremely high property taxes. Your kids will be at school with the children of hedge fund managers, CEO' s and the kids of the chairman of the NFL!
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Old Feb 25th 2016, 3:36 pm
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Originally Posted by notonuksoil
Bronxville HS, middle school and elementary school are all in one block together. Excellent school district, extremely high property taxes. ....
"Extremely" significantly understates the reality of property taxes in Bronxville.
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I seem to recall the average property tax rate there was $43k a year, and that was a while go...?
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Old Feb 25th 2016, 5:13 pm
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3 kids in private school in NYC is going to be significantly higher in fees than an average 43K a year in property taxes in Bronxville.
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Originally Posted by notonuksoil
3 kids in private school in NYC is going to be significantly higher in fees than an average $43K a year in property taxes in Bronxville.
There is a pre-school in Manhattan that charges more than that per annum for ONE child!
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Fees at the UNIS school for the 3 children will be in the region of 110k per annum.
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