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https://twitter.com/OJPAC/status/1144671054402609155
https://twitter.com/OJPAC/status/1144667342053543939
You're just helping me make my point - it's not an all or nothing proposition.
First of all, I think your numbers are off:
According to this article -
https://nypost.com/2019/01/19/nyc-yeshivas-collect-more-than-100m-a-year-in-public-funds/, Yeshivas in NYC receive about $100 million in funding from the DOE. And according to this one:
https://nypost.com/2018/10/10/yeshiva-student-population-explodes-in-nyc/, there are 110,000 students in Yeshiva.
And yes, the 9k/year per yeshiva student is about a third of the 25k per public school student, but how about we look at it this way - the average property tax in NYC is still under $10k/year. So even if you have 1 kid in Yeshiva, you're already almost getting your full property tax value as a benefit.
Even if I take your numbers as is:
- It's comparing apples to oranges (the $1500 per yeshiva student for books and busing is not comparable to all of the services and teacher salary and benefits that are needed to educate a child all day in the public school system).
- If you pay $7.5k in property taxes and have 5 kids in Yeshiva, you're breaking even.
And both of the tweets you cited, completely ignore kids getting special education services, which is significantly more expensive.