"we lost 120,000 families left the New York City public schools. So, we’ve absorbed last year, 19,000 students. We have room for the students and our principals, our superintendents,...."
Most of the 120,000 families that left were working class TAX PAYERS that were getting smothered by the tax burden, high crime rate and failure of the public school system in NYC.
100% of the 19,000 migrant student's families are TAX DEPENDENT with almost every aspect of their now comfortable life being financed with TAX DOLLARS.
Soooooo...... they have lost 120K tax paying families while increasing the burden on an already strained system. This will require tax increases on top of the already record high taxes in NYC which will then continue to drive the mass exodus of anyone having to pay their own way just to exist.
Death spiral of the system. The officials in charge know it but are ignoring it because ultimately things are going perfectly as planned by those in the shadows.
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