With the economy changing people's financial situations, many parents who would have enrolled their children in private schools are looking to put their kids in highly regarded public schools, like P.S. 41 in Greenwich Village, P.S. 199 and P.S. 87 on the Upper West Side and P.S.'s 6, 59 and 290 on the Upper East Side. So now parents trying to find their ways into the neighborhoods where these schools are—the NY Times speaks to a few of these desperate parents; one said she and her husband were considering subletting their apartment and then rent an apartment in a more attractive zone while one father said, "I will certainly consider some alternative way to game the system by gaining a different address. This is my child, who is a really smart kid, and he’s not going to my crummy zoned school. That’s just not going to happen." The Times also has some tips for parents, one being to research schools on Insideschools.org and another to make sure a potential home is actually in the school's zone.



