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We have the lead test pencils for toys, etc., but how do you test your water? I think if someone here who knows environmental testing would come up with some kind of $200 "home environmental check" and promote it here with a banner ad, you'd get a lot of business. I wish I could get my apartment tested, but I have no idea who to call or what the testing should cost. When I look under this heading in the telephone directory, it looks as if the companies are all offering some kind of elaborate service aimed at developers, or possibly home buyers, and not a simple service aimed at parents who just want to know what's going into their kids.
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mrrogers wrote: Gee,all of a sudden the council has become independent of Mayor Healy.He said he liked the idea but they voted it down.Could it be he was just pulling our leg./quote] I think what they're saying is, a) We'll probably support something like that, but not if you propose it, Stevie; and b) Right now, let's milk the state for all that it's willing to pay us. Let's not rock the boat while we're still nursing on Mama New Jersey. On the other hand: it's just plain absurd to shaft the schools at a time when they're improving and tons of parents with young children are moving into the city. If other cities can somehow pay for their schools, why do we have such a hard time doing that?
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I finally got to go there for dinner. The food, the coffee and the service are all amazing. The coffee really tastes the way I remember good coffee used to taste. I was starting to think that my tastebuds had gone bad, but now I'm thinking that Starbuck's has messed with the way people roast coffee and that the OX people have risen above that. Also, the restaurant was busy when I was there. Maybe that means the owners have figured out the economics of how to keep a restaurant like that going in that location. To me, the entryway still looks forbidding and out of harmony with the vibe of the restaurant, but maybe that's because the owners are planning to make that area a gallery and haven't gotten the art in, or something like that. Another aspect of OX is that it's weirdly kid friendly, because it's very loud and a lot of the food (e.g., tomato soup) is actually fancy comfort food. The restaurant is so loud t hat there's no way for anyone at another table to hear your child. So, the restaurant is potentially suitable for any child who will stay seated and eat what's on the menu.
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One thing that's really awful is seeing "big name" architects designing buildings for the projects.
On the one hand, I guess I'd rather see a nicely designed building going up than LeFrak building clone Number 497, but, on the other hand, what are architects doing contributing to the destruction of beautiful old warehouses? Those architects ought to be jeered out of architecture.
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I think one challenge here is that, in public, the people who oppose Epps have come up with a really weak case against him. The chief criticisms seem to be that he's a political player, that he works fairly short hours, that he appoints political friends to key positions, and that the schools still aren't all that great. But, so far, even though I've been to various meetings concerning the schools, that's the worst stuff I can list, which doesn't seem all that terrible to me. (Example: even if Epps comes in late in the morning, how do we know he wasn't participating in conference calls or doing some other work at home?) Maybe the people I meet secretly have lots of stories about Epps shafting schools to get back at his enemies or embezzling money or something like that, but no one is gossiping about that sort of thing in such a way that I can hear the gossip. When I watch school board proceedings on Comcast Channel 1, it seems as if Epps is pretty quiet but says sensible things when he does speak. I think my daughter's school has a principal who was appointed by Epps, and, as far as I can tell, the principal and the assistant principal seem to be bright people who really care about the kids. My guess is that Epps and the state have the most ability to control relatively new programs, such as the pre-K program, and the pre-K program is very good. I also get the general sense that, at this point, all of the downtown schools and most of the Heights grade schools, at least, are functioning pretty well as schools, and I think a lot of the lingering problems are really security/society problems (e.g., the wild young boys walking to and hanging out around P.S. 37/Cordero (Hamilton Park school)) rather than failed school district problems. I'm still not sure whether even the "good schools" here are great about things such as the teachers speaking polite standard English in front of the children or teaching topics such as how to avoid using dangling participles. But the schools actually seem to be making heroic efforts to avoid "worksheet mania." Of course, there are some famous problems with middle schools and high schools here, but, as far as I can tell, it sounds as if Snyder and Dickinson, for example, offer a lot of decent classes and probably are providing a decent education for the kids who are behaving well enough to be educable.
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I was reading about that area in some online histories of Jersey City.
I think that's a few blocks from where the Dutch massacred a bunch of Indians in 1643 (including tearing babies from their mothers' arms and hacking them to bits) and also a few blocks from where people who were enslaved were buried when they died. And now I guess it's a place where people are mean to a bunch of harmless animals. Of course, it's superstitious to believe in curses, but that's an area with some pretty horrifying coincidences.
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Was the original reference to city government salaries or school district salaries? If to school district salaries: Personally, I agree completely that I'm tired about teachers, who mostly work way fewer hours than other professionals (even after you factor in extracurricular work, grading, etc.), whining about their low salaries at a time when they earn more than most of the parents and actually earn more than a lot of low-level lawyers and accountants. On the other hand, at this point, I think one of the things that's really right about the district is the quality of the elementary school teachers. Even at the schools with weak test scores, a lot of the teachers are fine. So, given the challenges involved with educating the children of uneducated parents who grow up eating toxic food, breathing toxic air and playing in toxic dirt, I think it's reasonable to pay pretty high teacher salaries here.
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I hate the idea that the state and the taxpayers might be holding the kids hostage, but, yes, we somehow have to clean house at city hall and in the tax abatement area. It is absurd to think of a struggling single mom who lives in a little, overpriced house in the suburbs subsidizing pre-K education at P.S. 37 for the children of well-paid Newport residents who don't directly or indirectly pay much to support the schools. (A few years ago, when I went to a birthday party at Newport, I met a bunch of parents who were sending their children to the P.S. 37 pre-K, so, no, the parents there do not send all of their children to Stevens or other private schools.)
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There's a foreclosure notice for 587-593 Jersey Ave. in the fourth column on page 24 in today's Jersey Journal.
The notice seems to be for the funeral home property at Fourth Street. It's not the old location of either Melt or Go/Cafe Brand. The lender is Northern Source L.L.C., the borrower is Hudson Developers L.L.C., and the judgment involved is for about $1.3 million. The sale is scheduled for Feb. 7, 2008. I guess one practical question about this is whether it means you can park your car there while the foreclosure process is under way without getting towed.
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I think an owner who's rent out just one condo has a lot of leeway to kick people out, but, anyhow, another practical question to answer would be how well owners of similar condos are getting other, more responsible tenants to pay what you think of as an acceptable rent.
If, say, your tenant is paying fairly high rent, and eventually scraps it up, and other unit owners have a hard time renting out their units within a month, then maybe you're better off keeping the tenant, even if you'll lose a month or two of rent. E.g., maybe getting 80 percent of the rent revenue you'd expected to collect will put you in a pretty good position, relatively speaking. If, on the other hand, your tenant is paying fairly low rent, and the other units are renting as fast as the owners post notices on Craigslist, then it would make business sense to move against the tenant as aggressively as the law allows.
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GrovePath -- I love the Journal, but someone needs to tell the editor who butchered this story to rerun the story, or some kind of big clarification. It looks as if the editor cut out the paragraph explaining what Kenneth Robinson, and that really wrecks the story. Obviously, I'm the Titan of Typos, but leaving out the explanation of how Robinson died is more than just a typo.
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Which school was it? One thing I've discovered is that, to some extent, each school here is a fiefdom. Each of the downtown schools has a good or great principal who really fights to keep that school at a reasonable level of quality, but some of the schools south of Journal Square are really terrible, and those are the ones that are responsible for bringing down the district test schools. Quote: Whenever she had homework, I couldn't help her, There wasn't a book for me to explaine the work. I could go on and on but the bottom line was-----the more that I complained the more I was being labled a trouble maker. Was this because the school had no money for books, or was too disorganized to buy books, or because it had a curriculum that tried to do without books? The reason I'm asking is that sometimes schools try to reform their curricula by getting rid of textbooks. Quote: The schools are over populated and the children are suffering. The teachers are over worked and under paid. But, if you look at teacher Web site discussion boards, the teachers there talk about how the pay in the Jersey City schools is pretty good and the student-teacher ratios are reasonable. The teachers seem to have more complaints about, for example, the Paterson schools, and really bitter, bitter complaints about the Catholic parochial schools. A lot of the parochial schools pay terribly poorly.
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Here's another great site (the New Jersey Department of Education report card site): http://education.state.nj.us/rc/ If you look up a report card for a school, the report card will tell you much the district spends per child on teachers, buildings, etc.
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a) PM me and I'll get you some food. (But I think you should avoid canned soup, even if you're broke, because it's full of salt.) b) Are there some small food shops where you're a regular? If so, maybe one of them would let you buy a little stuff on credit. c) Maybe I'm being naive, but one strategy might be to try going to a religious service in your religion (or just try a service at Grace Church Van Vorst, at 2nd and Erie, if you have no religion), and ask if there's any way they can, say, help you out with buying a bag of rice and a bag of beans. I think it's completely valid to do this even if you're a committed atheist. There are plenty of practical uses of organized religion that have nothing to do with anything supernatural, and one of them is helping people deal with financial problems. And it could be that a church that has a food bank/soup kitchen that operates only during business hours would find a way to set a little food aside so that you could pick it up at another time.
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Maybe Ridgewood is a skewed example somehow, but, again, I don't think the downtown schools are mediocre. Under the difficult circumstances they face, they are quite good. If you go into New York, for example, they talk as if a school in which 80% of the kids pass both the verbal and math standardized tests as a top-tier, 5-star/5-star school. E.g., "Park Slope P.S. 321" and "Greenwich Village P.S. 3" and all that. But all of the downtown schools and most of the Heights schools, and a lot of the schools elsewhere in the city, are either what amounts to 5-star/5-star, 5-star/4-star, or, occasionally, 5-star/3-star schools. Most of these schools probably could make it into "New York's best schools" book based on test scores. The question is whether the percentage of cool teachers, teachers with nose rings, great art classes, etc. is as high in Jersey City, but I'm starting to think it is, and the support services (after care) are much more extensive.
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a) I come in peace and respect everyone in this thread. I'm just trying to share data/views here, not be negative toward anyone. Sorry if I somehow err in that regard. b) I'm not sure what the numbers really include, and I still don't a child in the upper grades, so my data for big kids is based mainly on the test scores and just looking at the big kids at the parks and in my daughter's school, but, anyhow: 1. Even though the amount may look high, it may not really be that outrageously high, for what we're getting, because: - We are, presumably, making up for years of neglect at weaker schools, and that's bound to cost extra. - At Cordero/37 in Jersey City, for example, the teachers are getting an average of $7,600 per pupil, compared with $6,500 per pupil at Hawes in Ridgewood. That makes sense, because: expenses and pay might be higher in Jersey City than in Ridgewood; it probably takes higher pay to attract comparable teachers to an urban school; and the figures seem to support the general observation that, whatever is wrong with the Jersey City schools, the teachers them are mostly fine. - A much higher percentage of our kids come from low-income homes and English as a second language homes and probably would need extra support to do well whether they're here in JerseyCity or in Ridgewood. So, support services costs are $2,400 in Jersey City vs. $1,900 per kid in Ridgewood. - We have creaky old buildings, and Ridgewood may well have nicer, newer buildings. So, understandably, Ridgewood is spending about $1,160 per kid on buildings while Jersey City has to spend about $$2,250 per kid. If there's corruption, it stands to reason that some of the corruption might be in that figure, but I'll bet the, adjusted for quality, a square foot of residential or commercial space is also quite a bit more expensive than a square foot of space at the same quality level in Ridgewood. So, these three factors alone could account for about $2,500 in spending differences between Jersey City and Ridgewood. Also: Jersey City has a kickass pre-K program and a really extensive after care program. It could be that those programs account for a big gap between an "adequate level of spending" and actual expenditures. If so, first, those are great, useful programs, and, second, it might be possible to generate a fair amount of revenue for those programs by charging parents more. Personally, now that I know that the public pre-K program is a good program, I'd be willing to pay a fair amount for it.
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I really like and respect your posts here, and I'm sorry if I'm coming off as negative. I agree that the state should consolidate small districts and force districts like the Jersey City district to be more transparent and more honest. But I think the argument that the state is throwing good money after bad in Jersey City is, at least, incomplete and based on apples-to-oranges comparisons. If you go on the New Jersey school report card site, you see that, for example, P.S. 5 and P.S. 37, the two downtown Jersey City grade schools I looked up, have third grade and fourth grade language arts and math scores that are comparable to the scores in the Ridgewood schools, even though none of the kids in the Ridgewood schools is classified as economically disadvantaged, and there are two few black or Hispanic kids in the Ridgewood schools for the schools to report subscores for those kids. At P.S. 5, for example, in which 100% of the 2005-06 test takers were classified as economically disadvantaged and none of the kids has access to a nice, modern, usable playground, the percentage of third grade kids scoring at the proficient level or higher (96.1%) was actually HIGHER than the 95.7% rate at Hawes, a rich Ridgewood school that probably has every school amenity. The third grade math passing rate at P.S. 37 was just a little lower, at 93.2%. Even for fourth graders, the 94.2 percent passing rate for P.S. 37 is the same as the passing rate for Orchard, a rich Ridgewood school. The language arts score gap is wider -- understandably, because a very high percentage of Jersey City kids speak English as a second language -- and the percentage of Ridgewood kids who score at the advanced level is higher, but I think it's possible to make the argument that the downtown Jersey City schools, at least, are getting a lot more out of their students than the Ridgewood schools are. Sometimes people zing the Jersey City schools because of the drop off in scores for middle school kids, but that's not really a valid thing to do, because a lot of the bright Jersey City schools end up in honors schools, and that throws off the percentages for the regular schools.
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Do you have any interim census figures or other figures to support this? My impression, from going to birthday parties, playdates and the Newport playground, is that there are tons of children at Newport. On any given summer afternoon, there are probably 30 to 50 kids who show up at the playground by the drug store. I think there are quite a few Newport kids at P.S. 37 (Cordero), Hamilton Park Montessori and Waterfront Montessori as well as at the Newport branch of Stevens. For me, this is a big issue, because I am, literally, three houses away from a family with a child at P.S. 37. I'm starting to think that my daughter's school may be better than P.S. 37, but most of the families we know from the park have their kids at P.S. 37, and we originally were desperate to get our daughter into P.S. 37. It's a pain to think that people who live in a property that pays little or no school tax crowded our daughter out of P.S. 37.
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I think one important point here, especially for people like me who don't really know the rebate/PILOT/property tax numbers, is that the rebate/PILOT problem is an absolutely critical concern even if it is responsible for a fairly small percentage of Jersey City schools problems. Whether making the waterfront condos pay their fair share of the school taxes would increase school funding by 20%, 5% or 1%, just the mere fact that fat cats are slinking away from their responsibility to help pay for the schools sets a terrible example and makes the entire system seem unfair. Also: sometimes, even on the Yahoo! Jersey City schools group, waterfront residents will say they should have no responsibility for helping to support the local schools because the schools are so terrible. My daughter is now in the public pre-K program at a downtown grade school, and it's wonderful. The teachers are great, the kids are smart and well-prepared, and the approach to discipline is both humane and effective. The older children at my daughter's school seem to be polite and well-behaved, even when they're playing on their own in the park after school, and, whenever I survey them, they say they like school and believe they are learning a lot. And the downtown schools all have good or great test scores, so I now believe the kids are giving me a reasonably accurate assessment of school quality. So, OK, if there are college-educated people living in the zones of some of the south Jersey City grade schools with terrible test scores and miserable kids, maybe they have some right to try to divorce themselves from the public schools. Maybe parents of middle school students and high school students who aren't in McNair have a right to try to wash their hands of the situation. But waterfront parents of grade school students have no such right. The downtown grade schools may not be perfect, but they are fine, despite facing many difficult challenges, and clearly the downtown grade schools would be even better if more parents with money would put their kids in the schools and get involved with the parent councils.
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Payment red tape: OK, the cash/money order thing isn't a big deal, but it's the sort of thing that can make daily life a pain in the neck if you're pressed for time. On the other hand, the public pre-K program does serve breakfast and lunch. If you give in and let your kid eat the school meals, that saves a lot more time than the payment red tape costs. Waterfront parent-teacher interaction: For parents who can pick up children directly from the school, maybe it's OK. For parents who use after care, it's terrible. You're really not supposed to be communicating with the teachers about your child when you pick up and drop off, but there's no other informal mechanism for finding out what's going on. Park Prep is probably the best, in this regard, because it's small enough that the people who are there with your kid in the morning are also there when you pick up in the evening. The cooperative preschools are probably the next best, because volunteering gives you a chance to see what's really going on. PCs: Many parents think of pre-K computer use as being comparable to pre-K TV watching. I think Waterfront is a non-PC school, at least at the pre-K level, but mainly because of PC skepticism, not at all because of budget issues. I think Waterfront spends a lot more on art classes, music classes, Spanish classes and other extras than the other schools spend on computers.
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Examples of what I'm thinking of in terms of red tape: - When you start, you'll get a huge packet with about 15 forms that you have to fill out, or at least sign, and you have to go through the booklets, etc. one by one to find all of the forms. My daughter's teachers were shocked that we'd found them all. - Even if you don't want the "wrap around" care program (which fills in when the regular school and the regular after school program are off), you have to (at least at my daughter's school) fill out the Hudson Urban League wrap around program form and go to the Urban League offices, a few blocks south of the Martin Luther King light rail stop, to prove to the social workers that your income is too high for you to qualify for free wrap-around care. - You have to pay for everything a different way. You have to pay for the after school program (CASPER) with a money order, and nothing else, but you have to pay for school lunches with cash, and nothing else. But, in general, now that the school year is under way, the public pre-K program seems to me to run about was well as the private programs do. My impressions at this point: the very, very most working-parent-friendly programs that I've run into are the Park Prep program in the Heights and the River School program. The one where you seem to get to know the school and parents best is Garden. (I assume Stevens is probably like that, too.) The best afterschool activities are at Waterfront Montessori. The teachers that seem to have the best ability to handle "strong-willed children" seem to be the public pre-K teachers. I don't know how how well Hamilton Park Montessori is at handling strong-willed children, but the Erie Street Montessori and Waterfront are not that great at it.
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Thanks. One thing to note is that the limit seems to be $25,000 for regular treatments and $35,000 for rehab. In the Gamestop case, those limits would obviously be more than high enough. But, if I'm understanding the limits correctly, they are super low, especially for an uninsured person who has to pay the full retail price for care. For someone who's seriously injured, any limit under $200,000 is really a joke.
Posted on: 2007/12/30 4:45
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