Opinion ID: 1595736
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Heading Rank: 18

Heading: Educational Advantages

Text: With respect to the fifth factor, the existence of educational advantages for the children, Cynthia testified generally that the schools in Suffolk County, New York, would be adequate for the needs of the children. No evidence was adduced that the primary and secondary schools in New York were any better or worse than the schools in Lincoln. Cynthia argues that the availability of a free education at NYU is an educational advantage for the children, although she conceded that this opportunity would be available to the children regardless of whether or not they lived with her in New York. Because Cynthia testified that she would not take the NYU job unless allowed to take the children with her, we must assume that the opportunity to attend NYU for free would be lost to the children if Cynthia was denied leave to take them to New York. Nonetheless, we cannot conclude that such a factor should be given significant weight in our de novo review, given the current age of the children and the consequent remoteness and unpredictability of their possible postsecondary education.