To the Editor:

As a graduate of Princeton University and a former New York City public school teacher, currently a resident of Princeton and a teacher at Princeton Charter School, I am surprised by the antipathy some in this community have directed towards PCS’s reasonable and modest expansion plans. Given how good a job PCS does in educating 348 Princeton public school students each year, it is ironic and sad that some question its very right to exist, much less expand. PCS is a public school that is successful because it has competent and compassionate leaders, who create an environment that attracts and retains talented, committed, and supportive teachers and a talented, committed, and supportive student population. These characteristics do not make PCS a private school, as some in this community have suggested, but a model for what a successful public school can and should be.

Arthur Eisenbach 

Russell Road