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AbsentEmpire OP t1_j9pures wrote

Reply to comment by JBizznass in Every year, there are more applicants to Philly charters than seats. But demand is still lower than before the pandemic. by AbsentEmpire

I think the article would have been better if they also referenced in the current number of school age children in the city, along with public and private school enrollments compared with pre and post pandemic to really get a picture of what families with children are doing.

I think the idea that parents who went to private during 2020 because they open and have just opted to stay in them, is also a good theory.

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Kalipolis t1_j9pqlzz wrote

Reply to Undersheriff Tariq El-Shabazz has been fined by the Ethics Board for doubling as a criminal defense lawyer in Philly by courageous_liquid

The sheriff’s office is pretty pointless to be honest and may not conflict with him doing criminal defense work. The entire office should just get rolled into an office under the mayor, there would actually be some accountability as the mayor generally doesn’t want to look bad but a row office elected official doesn’t care as long as the machine bosses are happy.

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AbsentEmpire OP t1_j9pqlaj wrote

Reply to comment by petedogg in Every year, there are more applicants to Philly charters than seats. But demand is still lower than before the pandemic. by AbsentEmpire

These are all valid reasons to stay in the city with kids. Although the Northeast is pretty car dependent, so I don't think that's a factor here in the number of people opting to apply for charters.

I think the article would have benefited from also listing total school age children within the city, and the numbers going to public and private to get a real sence of what families are doing.

For my partner and I we've already agreed that we won't be sending our kid to the public schools here. I grew up here and went to the city schools, and it wasn't great back in the 90s. The in school violence and out of control behavior has only got worse since, and the academic quality was bad then and it's bad now. My partner went to school in the burbs and hearing about his and his friends experiences honestly makes me jealous. I don't want my kids to go through what I had to here, especially when my partner and I can afford other options.

It's either we win the lottery and get into one of get into one of the good charters (unlikely), go private, or move to one of the few streetcar suburbs around the city to get a walkable environment. The magnet school lottery isn't something I like, and basically would require that after elementary we either win the lottery and get into one, pay an ass load of money for private, or move out to the burbs for the secondary school grades.

Moving out for schools historically is what people have opted to do in Philly, but that may be changing, which is why I thought the article was interesting.

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PienotPi t1_j9pozb0 wrote

Reply to Saturday hours back at *some* FLP branches by tgalen

This is absolutely huge! Thrilled to see that they're making efforts to give us this valuable community resource back. It's interesting that the main branch has been excluded from this list. I'd guess because the facility requires so many more staff members to operate.

Hopefully evening hours are in the near future too.

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