ZD,
“The issue isnt bussing, its seperate busing which costs extra because many times the same buses have to do almost the same route at least twice one for the boys and one for the girls.”
A convenient lie by the “activists”.
You probably are aware that there are separate schools for boys and girls. Thus, how would one route serve both boys and girls, that have to be at separate schools at the same time. Schools that are not in the same are at all.
What about the busing that is paid for public school students that go to school outside the district?
“Art Music and Athletics are not extras, they are very important to the community unfortunatly the frum community downplays these things , but it doesnt mean the other communties . In fact there is a state requirement for Art and music in the curriculum.”
There were specific items that NYSED instructed ERCSD to cut from their budget to balance the budget, specific “Extra-Curricular” items. Do you know what extra-curricular means?
“As far as special ed, generally those students are usually just educated in public schools, however in Ramapo they are usually bused to Kiryat Joel (The frum ones) and The cost is about double what it would cost to educate them in the regular public schools”
This is wholly untrue. In fact one of special ed schools that does receive funding and is a frequent target of the “activists” (as defined earlier) costs the ERCSD SIGINICANTLY less per student than what the costs of providing those services in the public school system itself costs. Significantly.
And there is a lot of money paid to other districts for East Ramapo residents that attend schools in different districts, including out of state that are for regular public school students (this is all in the public financial statements). There is no reason why paying the public school district in KJ would be any different.
You really are completely unaware of reality. You are completely way off base.