You don’t get it, do you. The extra money is for the Latinos in the public schools in East Ramapo and Lakewood, not for the Jewish children. No extra money, and non-mandatory kindergarten is cancelled. Instead of local Latinos getting half a day kindergarten they get no public school kindergarten since kindergarten is non-mandatory. The Latino kindergarteners will have to stay home with a hired babysitter or the parent taking off from work. Sports, extracurricular activities and other non-mandated public school programs Latinos are using go bye-bye. Public school roofs leaking? Sorry, no money to fix them. Public school class sizes going from 30 to 50 kids per class? Sorry, no money for smaller classes. Courtesy busing is a tiny percentage of the school budget and even cancelling it will not provide enough savings to cover the humongous deficit in the school budget. Private school children being bused going from 25,000 to 35,000 mandatory busing? Hiring new buses since it is mandated by State law to get them to school. Guess that means some more cuts in non-mandatory public school programs.
Maybe what’ll happen is the public school parents will get so frustrated that they’ll move out of town (i.e. rent basements in other towns) and the public school student body will go down to a small number and the local BOE will save hundreds of millions from having less public school kids.