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How has MoCo declined since you’ve lived here?
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Anonymous
+100 |
Anonymous
| With an exception of very rich Potomac/CC/Bethesda areas, the whole county has gone down significantly. I mean SIGNIFICANTLY!! |
Anonymous
SAT scores aren’t the best. May have most misleading press releases. |
Anonymous
what if I don't value diversity? |
Anonymous
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2018 average SAT scores are another measure of MoCo's decline:
Fairfax 1213 Arlington 1191 Montgomery 1167 |
Anonymous
First, I described it as the Dads working because that was what it was like when my parents moved in 50 years ago. It's. It is not what I would have wanted, or want now. Assumption on your part. Second, stop with the "infested with brown people" racist nonsense. It's a lie liberals keep repeating rather than face the truth - that an influx of poor, unskilled people unable to support themselves and reliant on taxpayer support to feed their kids is coming at a big cost to Americans living near where they settle. Third, I am sympathetic to the elderly people who bought these homes 50+ years ago and have seen a big portion of the equity dry up just as they are about to need it for assisted living. Why are you so sympathetic to illegal immigrants, and not elderly Americans who worked all their lives and now find their neighborhoods in decline? |
Anonymous
Diversity for diversity's sake is not necessarily a plus. Otherwise, why don't we admit people with IQs in the 70 - 80 range to Harvard and relocate ex-cons into neighborhoods with low crime rates? |
Anonymous
But Kennedy has gone downhill bigtime. Used to be better than Wheaton, but now it's dead last. The only thing I can figure is that most of the homes surrounding Wheaton are SFH (although mostly modest 40s and 50s builds), and there are hundreds of apartments near Kennedy, so that's where the low-income, welfare-type recipients live. Lots of non-English speakers, too. It shows in the school rating. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
LOL Did you see SAT scores on the links posted? You are truly ignorant |
Anonymous
Too bad, you will be left out. |
Anonymous
Link?? When Fairfax and Arlington can win the "it's academic " competition, we will take them seriously. |
Anonymous
| Diversity is turning this country into a shithole |
Anonymous
This is important to explore. I'm a white uber liberal lawyer who grew up in MoCo and lives here. My job is in the anti-poverty/social justice arena. If every time a person mentions a poverty-related issue someone screams racism, then we will never actually discuss the poverty-related issues. Yes, the children born here are citizens who are entitled to an education and social services (if/when necessary). But we need to realize that their parents' immigration status typically precludes them from working jobs above the table and paying taxes. Yes, they work; but they typically work jobs that don't pay taxes (or some might work with fake SS#s). A possible solution is legal assistance to address their status. Another option is immigration reform. But we (including anti-poverty advocates) rarely get to those in the weeds solutions because we get distracted with racism. The overcrowding issues are problematic. We had 5 families living in a ranch style house in my prior neighborhood in 20906. 5 couples; at least 8 kids based on the # of cribs and toddler beds I counted when I walked through the open house. While I admired their pluck and self-sufficiency, there are obvious negative impacts on the neighborhood as well as the kids living inside the home (as evidenced by the multiple calls to the police for domestic situations). This house wasn't an outlier; there were dozens of such homes in my old neighborhood by the time we moved out. Ten years later, the entire neighborhood and schools have declined dramatically. They crossed a tipping point. And there is an impact on surrounding shopping centers which struggle to find anchor stores and restaurants precisely because of the racial and socioeconomics (anchor chains rely heavily on that data). The elderly in MoCo have a dramatically declining standard of living. They are on fixed incomes and barely getting by thanks to increasing medical bills. Many are only able to remain housed thanks to support from their kids. Many have lost their homes. Many can't afford to sustain their homes, yet they can't afford to downsize (leave the home that's paid for) because they can't afford rent or a modest place in leisureworld because their home (while paid for) has fallen into such disrepair it will be tough to sell---or will sell for far less than its worth. Remember: moco has a serious pinhole leak issue with its pipes in the housing stock where blue collar and lower paid white collar elderly people reside. I could go on, but I suppose the point is this: let's stop pretending that moco hasn't changed. It has. Dramatically. Instead of complaining, and instead of ignoring, let's discuss and identify solutions that improve the situation for everyone. That means we will need to discuss crime, too. |
Anonymous
Comparing SAT scores between schools districts, and even among high schools, isn't always an apples-to-apples comparison. Fairfax has a higher average score, but its SAT participation rate among graduating seniors is the lowest among the three at 60%, and varies among its high schools. MoCo has a higher-participation rate at 65.7% with a pretty consistent participation rate among its high schools. Arlington has a higher participation rate, but like Fairfax has significant variance in the number of students taking the SAT at its high schools. Compare the SAT participation rate at Wheaton HS at 59%, and compare it to Mount Vernon in Fairfax at 18%, and there's a whole portion of students whom are not even attempting to take the SAT at Mount Vernon. Likewise, Wakefield High School had a 17% participation rate. So, as many statisticians will tell you, the average number can be skewed to be more favorable when you have a smaller sample population. SAT scores in a school district will always be higher if college-bound students are a bulk of your sample population |