Not one of them ever considered to have there children in Glen Cove schools. Then these women had the nerve to showed up at our high school homecoming game. They show up for the first time at election time looking for votes at our football game. Shame on them!!

Shame on you, Bella. I don't know where these women sent or are sending their children, but it seems to me that's a personal choice and none of your business. Stop with the phony outrage. Do you at times grocery shop outside of Glen Cove? Do you go to Roosevelt Field to shop? Of course you do, and so do a lot of other people. That's because Glen Cove doesn't offer what you're looking for. Until and unless this school district consistently achieves at the highest levels, parents will continue to look elsewhere to educate their kids.

I do shop in town! It is obvious you don’t! You are so phony. And don’t even start with our schools. You don’t want anything to do with our children and we don’t want anything to do with you. Go look for your votes in Sea Cliff or south shore or where ever!

Wow, way to come out swinging Bella.

Given the fact that Vinny has a very long history of posts on this site and you have 2 I'm going to guess this is just another pit bull attack on opinions. Granted I keep my name obscured here so as to keep attacks to a minimum (cowardly I agree but I have better things to worry about) but in reality, has anyone ever heard of a person who moved their family to Glen Cove 'because of the schools'? Seriously, realtors are not allowed to say anything officially but all of the ones that I've ever met (w/ the exception of Mary Stanco, who I don't know but assume would celebrate them given her position on the Chamber of Commerce) actually say flat out 'if you're going to send your kids to private school then GC is great.'

Im sure at some point, the schools in Glen Cove were fantastic but the data shows that they are really C schools at best. Rather than keeping our head in the sand and saying that they're great why can't we just accept that fact that they are lagging behind just about every other school system in our region and figure out a way to improve them.

Here's one idea to keep things constructive. Let's not any more residential development to take place in GC that has any kind of tax break (notice that I didn't blame illegal housing?). Have you ever realized that every child in these new developments will be going to school at no charge? We just can't afford this any longer and frankly we all deserve better.

I really don’t understand what having a bunch of posts have to do with anything. You know what, your right, the realtors do no one a favor with their bad opinions. I don’t like people who are known bad mouths about our schools, and we know these women, talking about our schools and showing up at school events looking for votes. Its hypocritical!

Bella is comfortable in her ignorance. Far be it for me to tease her out of her comfort zone. Parents wouldn't send their children to private schools if ours were excellent. I guarantee that the percentage of parents in highly rated school districts who send their children to private schools is very low. . As long as we have a preponderance of children of illegal aliens populating our classrooms, our school ratings will be somewhere at the bottom. You are so right about realtors. They avoid bringing prospective buyers to any of our schools. But Bella wants to rail against 3 women who want to give their children the best education possible. In her lopsided world, they shouldn't be allowed to run for office. Maybe I should remind her that our gloriious president decided he didn't want his daughters exposed to the DC school system and sent them to private schools. I guess he should resign.

There's been a lot of talk on these boards where people are creating anonymous accounts and attacking people for speaking up.

I have to say that I sadly but respectfully agree with the realtors on this one. Im not really the bad-mouthing type so I don't want to come across as doing so, and I actually have nothing to do with GC politics or business but as a father and homeowner I can say that Glen Cove schools are not cutting it and similar to our business district, surrounding areas are surpassing us by leaps and bounds.

I am actually curious as to what age group the pro-GC school people are because there is also the possibility where the families with older children are having a better experience than those of us with younger children. That said, when we looked at public schools for our young kids there was no question. Now you might disagree with my decision but I'm the market (I own my home, pay taxes and have young kids) and the product is flawed as far as I am concerned and we chose not to send out children to a GC public school.

So then what comes next? Seeing as the value of my house that I bought 4 years ago is down about 30% I cannot sell it so I am here and participating on these boards in hopes of something changing for the better.

Despite the claims of our leadership on the health of GC, there's a ton of vacant and abandoned buildings and the schools rate in the middle of the pack ... this is not a thriving community.

You cannot change the school district without changing the population. As long as City Hall believe it should have no tie-ins with our schools, we will not only not solve the problem, we won't even acknowledge its source.

Our 2nd grader has had a good experience at Deasy school. She's had great teachers all the way through. Looking forward to seeing our 4 year old start kindergarten at Deasy next year.

The schools are not the only problem this city has. It is the nepotism of the Suozzi's.