Yeah, it's pretty wild. Admittedly, I haven't done enough research on my own (no kids, no desire to work in education myself) to know the difference in pay between NYC and here, but can we not close the gap? I live close enough to Ferris to see the kids leave at noon with no intention of going back for the afternoon...wtf. I grew up in the suburbs so just a different school life, but if we cannot educate the kids, wtf are we doing. We might as well sell the land the schools sit on and put the money to sending the kids to a place that can offer an education. I don't mean this to sh*t on any teachers in JC public schools, but if the comment above is that we throw our hands up and say we don't have access to a consistent amount of quality teachers, then we need to re-assess.