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Anonymous wrote:So, the disastrous township systems in places like NY and NJ far predate this obsession with school quality.
The high taxes in these places are partially a function of these antiquated local government structures. And school taxes are high primarily because the schools have been built around these tiny districts that drive up costs dramatically. It's not because the parents all demand top, top schools. Even in towns where the schools suck, they still cost a fortune.
But those schools are also more responsive to the community. When the mayor and everyone on the school board sends their kids to the same schools, it makes a difference.
When school districts have essentially no diversity, people have much less problem sending their kids there.
I am the poster you are quoting. I am not white, and grew up in a town in Westchester that was ( and still is) diverse. With a few exceptions, I find Westchester to be less segregated than many areas in the DMV.
What? No way. Most of the areas that are not adjacent to the NYC border are overall whiter and/or more segregated than the DMV. I can't help but roll my eyes at all my fellow village residents who put up "no matter where you're from, you're my neighbor signs" when every single one of their neighbors are just as white and US-born as they are. Except that one family around the corner where the husband's Canadian.
Like someone else posted, the reality of the segregation in Westchester becomes more obvious when you've lived in places outside of NY/NJ/NE and had exposure to local governments and
school systems that are at the county level, where you usually have *some* socioeconomic diversity purely due to the population scale. The NY village/town fiefdoms allow for de facto segregation to continue when you're only dealing with, say, 10,000 residents.
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