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When I was a girl my parents who grew up in manhattan always complained that the city had become so crowded and that private school was impossible to get into. Sigh. The more things change the more they stay they the same.
12 replies [ Reply | Watch | Options ]The times is always, and forever has been, trying to alter real stats to capitalize on he fear of crowding to sell papers, look at the articles in the archives from the 80s, same fear mongering. Aside from that if you look at the ny.gov census stats you see that the number of dcs that are from families that could actually afford private school is actually smaller than in the 90s
[ Reply | Options ]In the 1980s there were way too many private schools - so many that quite a few of the middle class schools closed - McBurney, Rhodes, Walden, more; and many merged.
[ Reply | Options ]the middle class schools? I was middle class and I went to a tt private. There were not 'too many schools' and many many have now opened so it is all relative
[ Reply | Options ]You don't know your private school history. There were about a dozen schools that closed in the (mostly) late 80s. I say "middle class" because schools like the three I mentioned were affordable for a mid-level manager working parent with a SAHM (e.g. bookkeepers, salesmen, actuaries) vs. the $30K+ needed today which would take up one whole income of this level today. That you went to a tt private is irrelevent. Private schools then were begging for students; not like today.
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Were they putting kids on a 'hold list' even at the public schools and holding lotteries for PS41 like they did this year? It may not be 'more crowded' but the demographic has certainly changed and there are more children in manhattan now than 40 years ago.
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