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NJ - Tuition based public school

This can get interesting as an alternative to private schools. I wonder if this will affect HS sports too.

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It been around for years in PA. Very little impact. Really the only people that use it are those who been expelled or people who have moved and want to allow their child to stay in the district to finish the year and/or graduate at the high school they spent most of their career at. For the price most would prefer sending them to a private school.
 
I can see it in a different light in NJ.

Examples:
- the tuition for a better public school may be less (up to half) of sending kids to a private school
- You live in a nice part of town that has an "ok at best school system" , where taxes are lower but you want to send your kid to a better district. Not sure the taxes but lets say you live in New Brunswick but want to send your kid to school in Edison or East Brunswick
- Your kid is good at a sport but the team in town is not great so you want to go to a better sports school. You live in New Brunswick but desire to send your kid to Piscataway for football or Linden for basketball.
- You live in a low tax town with average schools but want to send your kid to the district near where you work. Live in Harrison for example but work in Livingston or West Orange.

While I understand it may work one way in PA I can see it take on a life of its own in NJ where it is ultra competitive. With some of the under the table recruiting in sports I can also see this become an issue. Imagine a well to do family with a son who is a good basketball player in a town (say Marlboro) is willing to pay the tuition for a couple of other good basketball kids from poorer towns with worse school districts. Then you can have a way to practically give scholarships to kids for sports. A sport like basketball only needs like 2-3 good players to change the competitiveness on the court.
 
I can see it in a different light in NJ.

Examples:
- the tuition for a better public school may be less (up to half) of sending kids to a private school
- You live in a nice part of town that has an "ok at best school system" , where taxes are lower but you want to send your kid to a better district. Not sure the taxes but lets say you live in New Brunswick but want to send your kid to school in Edison or East Brunswick
- Your kid is good at a sport but the team in town is not great so you want to go to a better sports school. You live in New Brunswick but desire to send your kid to Piscataway for football or Linden for basketball.
- You live in a low tax town with average schools but want to send your kid to the district near where you work. Live in Harrison for example but work in Livingston or West Orange.

While I understand it may work one way in PA I can see it take on a life of its own in NJ where it is ultra competitive. With some of the under the table recruiting in sports I can also see this become an issue. Imagine a well to do family with a son who is a good basketball player in a town (say Marlboro) is willing to pay the tuition for a couple of other good basketball kids from poorer towns with worse school districts. Then you can have a way to practically give scholarships to kids for sports. A sport like basketball only needs like 2-3 good players to change the competitiveness on the court.

It has already been going on for years. Look at Pt. Pleasant Beach Boys and Girls Basketball two years ago. Pitman boys basketball, Eastern Field Hockey.
 
Plenty of school districts in New Jersey have allowed tuition students for years. I sent my daughter to a neighboring public school as a tuition student for the first half of her first grade year, until I could get her in a charter school as a midyear transfer. Prices vary greatly, as does the willingness of school districts to take students (space permitting, of course). As an odd side note, River Dell High School is fed by Oradell and River Edge. Oddly, the former town does not accept tuition students, but the latter does, and is one of the elementary school districts we considered paying for. Most around us were anywhere from $8,000 to double that.
Of course the choice program is an entirely different story.
 
It has already been going on for years. Look at Pt. Pleasant Beach Boys and Girls Basketball two years ago. Pitman boys basketball, Eastern Field Hockey.

Grapfan,

Actually most of the Beach transfer Basketball players have 'used' addresses to play there. The two Manasquan girls tried to go the tuition route, were turned down, and then showed up the next day with a Rental Contract.

The Beach tuition is very low, in the $5K range for a pretty good academic school. They pattern the program after the airlines. If the plane flies out half filled, the airline goes out of business. If you sell the remaining seats at a lower fare at the last minute the airline stays in business. If you fill the empty chairs in each classroom , even at a lower tuition, you end up making money.
 
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