how to increase economic diversity in schools.
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Anonymous
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Does your neighborhood school have less than 20% FARMS? Congratulations! Your neighborhood is now the #1 place for mixed-income housing development in DC!
You say the low-income housing just won't look right in your neighborhood? Please see the Ellen Wilson "project" within Brent's neighborhood as an example of mixed-income housing that can fit in beautifully in a community. |
Anonymous
| I think low income housing should be in every upper class neighborhood. |
Anonymous
| Put it like this...the very best elem schools are in Ward 3/Upper NW. that area also has ONE public housing site and its for seniors only. And thats how folks want it. They can argue "see we have publuic housing" or "our schools are so crowded already, we could never handle any more families"--Housing Authority would argue, land is too expensive there so need to build anything. |
Anonymous
| How about less increasing of low income housing and more getting people on their own feet? |
Anonymous
So are they going to bus in poor people into georgetown and foxhall |
Anonymous
| How about coming up with a solution that makes low-income earners better able to earn higher incomes? |
Anonymous
| Communists. |
Anonymous
Use your invisible bootstraps! |
Anonymous
How about making them more useful and valuable to employers? Reading, math, writing skills? A lot of kids graduating from DCPS can barely do that. Many can't manage what little money they do have. How about even things like showing up on time? Being able to interact and communicate with customers or co-workers politely, coherently and effectively? Even the most basic life skills are lacking in a lot of these kids by the time they graduate. How do you expect them to find their way into higher income if they don't even have the basics down? There's more to life than just showing up. You have to work at it. |
Anonymous
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You can say make them better 16:49 but there is a limit to what any society will pay for some positions - barista, waitress, nanny. So you can permanently entrench the servant class and their children or you figure out how to make it so the landscapers son or daughter can actually get the educational depth to not just run his father's company but to run your company.
The wealthier you are and the wider the gap, the less likely anyone of any potential can make it out. It just sucks the life out of people . http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/how-inequality-hollows-out-the-soul/?_php=true&_type=blogs&hp&rref=opinion&_r=0 |
Anonymous
Aren't there jobs in those areas? Why wouldn't they be able to walk? And aren't there buses? Put this way, those nannies and waitresses that work in those. Eighborhoods, why shouldn't they ave the option to live in those neighborhoods? Isn't society better off if we don't have low income slums/high concentrations of poverty? |
Anonymous
They already do. Hardy was apparently 11% IB in 2012. http://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/Appendix%20B_Boundary%20Participation%20Data%20Tables_DRAFT_Policy%20Brief_3.pdf |
Anonymous
Why should someone get to live wherever they want or wherever it's convenient? Since when has that been a basic entitlement in life? Hey, maybe I'd like to live on Oahu or in Aspen. But that's not happening, because I can't afford it. Why should that be any different for anyone else? |
Anonymous
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why should you get to live in a neighborhood with no low income housing available? Why should only other neighborhoods have to have low-income housing?
And yes, I would expect that Oahu and Aspen have low-income housing available for those people that work in their community. |
Anonymous
I have no problem with affordable housing for the people that actually *work* in that community. It's the housing for able-bodied people that *don't work* that I have a problem with. |