how to increase economic diversity in schools.
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Anonymous
Because I studied hard as a child, landed a well-paying job, scrimped and saved, and was finally able to afford a house in a high-rent district? |
Anonymous
| A PP was right that some jobs are always going to be low paying..barista, waiting tables, retail etc...but those jobs are not meant to support a family of four. People have to make more strategic choices. I worked retail while putting myself through college. I also DID NOT HAVE a baby until I was married and finacially able. Nothing is more infuriating than all the WaPo articles on gentrification, poverty etc where the main person is pregnant with her fourth kid and is 23 years old and working at Walmart. And wondering what DC is going to do for her. Stop having babies, that is the surest way to lift yourself out of poverty. |
Anonymous
right, and how will you be harmed if FARMS eligibile kids (and their families) move into your neighborhood? |
Anonymous
Why do people self-segregate via housing? |
Anonymous
| What if I don't want economic diversity in my school? I'll tell you what - When "economic diversity" stops being synonymous with under-performing schools, bad behavior, and higher crime, I'll be on board. Only 9% of kids in my son's school are eligible for the free or reduced-price lunch program. I'm good with that. |
Anonymous
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And if the school jumped to 20% eligible for FARM, that would cause the school to have higher crime and bad behavior? I ask because our school has 70% FARMS and we didn't have those problems.
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Anonymous
| Nobody's stopping you six-figure crybabies from home-schooling your children. |
Anonymous
But your administration is probably better at serving the needs of a high-FARM population. Those skills have undoubtedly taken years to refine. What happens at my child's school for the next few years as the FARM rate goes from low single digits to 20%? |
Anonymous
How about the nannies of Chevy Chase? I understand $30,000 per annum is typical-- that meets the cut off for free lunches-- I think $40,000 is the guideline for reduced price lunch. I get that these jobs aren't meant to support a family, but the reality is that wages have not kept up with the price of inflation and the middle class jobs are disappearing. So where should poor families live? Having all the poor families live in the same neighborhood causes all kinds of problems. I'm not talking free mansions for all-- just decent townhomes that blend in with the surrounding neighborhood. |
Anonymous
Nobody is stopping you from attending your neighborhood school. And I'll let you in on a secret: We are already home-schooling our children. We used to do so full-time when they were toddlers, but now we home-school in the evenings and on weekends. Why do you think our children do so well in school? |
Anonymous
| Right, you aren't stopping people from living in their own neighborhood and attending their schools-- but you aren't interested in integrating a few poor families into your neighborhood. And why is society pampering your phobia of poor people? |
Anonymous
Why is society pampering the sense of entitlement of poor people? |
Anonymous
Good for you! My kid is a FARM kid and in trouble(few bad words, hope he learned his lesson). I need him to be around non-Farms. |
Anonymous
If your FARM kid is in a school that's 70% FARMS he isn't going to stop getting in trouble. If the critical mass is high FARMS then nothing will get better. The only way it's going to happen is to be in a school that's 20% or less FARMS. And the only way that's going to happen is that the demographic has to shift, significantly. More high-SES families have to come in to the area, and perhaps some low-SES families need to move out of the area. That's the bottom line. It won't happen otherwise. |
Anonymous
| Yay. DCUM is awesome. |