ps 6

and we wonder why we are in the mess we are in? be careful...you never know, someday you may be nominated to be Secretary of the Treasury...but of course yo can always fall back on

1. i didn't know
2. no one told me
3. i never expected to be nominated.

when the kids at school figure out that your kids don't live in the hood -- some parent will rat you out for a fink in a heartbeat. there are not enough slots for people in the neighborhood.

I agree with mf.

Plus they do indeed make you produce reams of documents on the way in.

Better to have the state take your kids and place them with foster parents.

Seriously. Are you really that stupid?

"there are not enough slots for people in the neighborhood"

So even if I move into the district, its not guarenteed that my kid/s can go to PS 6?
How do they prioritize kids? Siblings of current students I imagine? How else, is it a pure lottery or is there a preference for people who've lived in the district longer?

I'm most concerned about getting my kid in legitimately---my first post is my concern that others are taking spots for which my kid (and other actual residents) should be gunning....

huh....so you started this to make sure that on one else was cheating?

where were you when geithner needed you? he should have said that he was working undercover to determine if the IRS was clever enough to catch tax cheats. was going to wait a few more years just to be clear that they didn't figure it out and then he was going to pay.

As a first step for determining whether an address is in the P.S. 6 school zone, go to http://maps.nycboe.net/ and enter the address. To confirm that an address is in the zone, you must contact the school.

Important: P.S. 6 endeavors to strictly enforce residence requirements. All new applications to register are carefully reviewed and investigated to ensure that prospective students live in the zone or are otherwise eligible to attend P.S. 6. Lying to get into the school or using an address at which you do not live will not be tolerated.

And be prepared for changing zone boundaries.

there is a whole commentary on overcrowding and reopening another previously closed school to handle the overflow

columbiacounty: That's right. But I don't blame parents for doing whatever it takes (including lying) to get the best for their kids--its darwinian.

Manhattanfox: Thank you. I'd hate to do all my homework, move into the zone and then be told that its too full anyway. Can you please let me know if there is anything else I can do (legitimately) to ensure that my kid gets in? Should I move to the zone sooner rather than later? or is it a pure lottery? If a kid doesn't get in for K can he get in next year? THANKS AGAIN.

alanhart: what've you heard about changing zones?! I might not have to move after-all. Any info. much appreciated (I've had "PS 6" on google tracker but haven't seen anything...

Once your Kid is accepted in the school, you are free to move to another area, and you retain the right to either, move your child to the new school, OR leave him where he is (some people here are firing from the hip).

http://insideschools.org/index12.php?s=1&a=71

What if you move?

If you and your family move during the school year, your elementary or intermediate school child is entitled to an immediate transfer to his new zoned school. Your child also has an important option: continuing in her original school until graduation from that school. High school students who move can request a "travel hardship" transfer to a closer school.

For more details on who may attend public schools, see Chancellor's Regulation A-101 and Regulation A-125.

For obvious reasons, BOE doesn't change zoning until the sh*t hits the fan. That being said, look at the boundaries, be smart. Why would you buy on the edges of any good school zone? Try being right smack in the center. Or be on the boundary of a neighboring good school.

BOE changed PS199 zoning - not too hard to figure out where the changes would occur. They could adjust the northern and eastern boundaries a bit - but those kids would only end up going to PS87, which is a good and similarly packed school. Changing western boundaries and/or southern boundaries (those kids rezoned for PS191) would be what would buy them (in their minds) the most time. Which is exactly what happened - south-western corner got lopped off.

qwerty: If we're talking Darwin, and survival of the fittest, why not just go in and stomp on some kids heads...screw them!
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST (or biggest...)

or you could always just fall back on being a liar...

I hate brokers

BA_DA_BOOM: THANK YOU!!! I'll verify all this but thankfully I now see an angle I can take to do the best for my son within my means.

columbiacounty:"Rules" aren't there to stop people, they're there to keep-out the people who don't want it bad enough. So ends the lesson.

qwerty -- the rules can change at any time at all, including the rules BA_DA_BOOM spelled out for you. You might as well start home-schooling now.

alanhart: Indeed. My son will be educated mostly by me regardless of his school district. School is primarily for socialization (not education). Unfortunate, but if I relied only on the state to educate my son, I wind-up with one messed-up punk.

My information was cut and paste from the PS6 website -- so verify it away...

It has a section on the website about overcrowding which would include the need to disperse kids to other schools. It specifically says that the ps 6 district and its adjoining neighborhood faces the highest crowding pressure. read it for yourself.
google ps 6 manhattan --- look on the school website... and call the school for specifics. Deadline for september is soon.

Looks like the DOE is going to implement restrictions on the incoming K class. Looking at what they've done in the past, it's still advantageous to live "in zone" because your kid will have priority after K to get into PS6. There is normally some attrition in higher grades.

ps6 website: ps6nyc.org
Check the date of "school tour".. and talk to Pam Fuchs (parent coordinator).