The Times take a look at the simmer issue of the St. Ann’s Schools objection to a Federal probation office. “The school, St. Ann’s, has been educating the best of Brooklyn (and other boroughs) for four decades. The school, whose 1,080 students in prekindergarten through 12th grade are spread over six buildings…Parents who pay St. Ann’s tuition, about $25,000 per year, said they were shocked that the federal government would deem it acceptable to monitor convicted criminals just steps away from students of grade-school age or older…The 19-story building, with more than 700,000 square feet, is part of MetroTech Center. Tenants include Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and the offices of federal prosecutors. The St. Ann’s classrooms, which the school has rented since 1989, are on the ground floor, as is the proposed probation office, which also has space on the 16th floor. But the two spaces are practically on opposite sides of the building, separated by a wall, and have separate entrances.”–NYT