NYC schools are pretty aweful unless you live on the upper west side. The few years of his life my son was in a Montessori school, but the cost was more then my

NYC schools are pretty aweful unless you live on the upper west side. The few years of his life my son was in a Montessori school, but the cost was more then my rent, so I decided to enroll him in a public school - it was a block away from me so I saved four hours of commuting and a couple grand a month. He walked in the door with basic reading, writing, and simple math skills. The receptionist looked up his birth year on a chart, and informed me my son would be placed in kindergarten where they were learning colors - no possibility of him testing out, no possibility of sitting in with a 1st grade class, he was born in year X so the chart says he is in kindergarten. So he spent two days doing colors, on the third day his name came up in a lottery for a charter school, and I started getting up everyday at 4am to take him to Brooklynn where he was doing 1st grade work again. The charter schools are unique to New York City I believe, they are publicly funded but have a lot more discretion in everything they do. Whereas the dropout rate in NYC is around 30%, and of the 70% that do graduate only 48% graduate on time. For the charter schools it’s closer to 90% graduate on time. When you factor in races - the NYC public schools have their worst stats in black and Hispanic neighborhoods - no shortage of data to back that up in Google - whereas the charter school stats in the same neighborhoods equal or exceed the stats in the wealthiest Caucasian neighborhoods.