It cracks me up to see how badly staged this house is, for that price the broker should be putting a bit more effort into making it look good!
Also, the public schools here in JH are great, I don't understand why people are saying otherwise. Is it one of those situations where someone hears someone else say it, and then it spreads and becomes gospel? It's very odd, I and many other people really like the local schools. Maybe this will spread and become the new gospel now? 
69 is incredibly huge and regimented, as you know, so it's tough for kids who may function better in a quieter atmosphere or one with a little more flexibility and personal attention. Some of the other schools have extremely large ESL populations, and there are some English-only parents who believe they get underserved when so much of the school's resources are devoted to ESL (because ESL is expensive and high-resource.) There are other parents who love the diversity of such schools, but I'm giving you the objections I've heard from people who don't like them.
In general when people in Queens say "better schools" in another neighborhood, I've found they mean "smaller schools with more parent-teacher interaction and less ESL." Although now that I think of it, I've had some Asian acquaintances say "better schools" (thinking of Bayside) when they meant "all the ESL is Chinese/Korean and not Spanish."
