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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just can't with the posters who think believe that

1. the purpose of school boundaries is to maintain the property values of affluent property owners.
2. the purpose of school boundary changes is to punish "the professional classes" by making their kids go to the same public schools poor people's kids go to.

Talk about entitlement and victimhood.[/quote]

Actually, we ARE entitled to what we earned. We worked for it. What's entitled is others thinking THEY are entitled to our hard-earned wealth. Can you tell me why we should be forced to give away what we worked for?[/quote]

Nobody's taking your hard-earned wealth, and you're not giving anything away.

The money you put into your property is an investment, just like the money you put into the stock market. There's no guaranteed return on investment. It's a gamble. Sometimes you win (when you go to sell, the sales price is higher than the price you paid to buy), sometimes you break even (when you go to sell, the sales price is about the same as the price you paid to buy), sometimes you lose (when you go to sell, the sales price is lower than the price you paid to buy). If you can't tolerate that risk, then you shouldn't buy property. Rent, let your landlord take the risk, and put your money in a federally-insured bank account.[/quote]

In this case, Government is deliberately shifting boundaries to meet socio-economic equity goals. This means punishing one class of people to benefit another. This is social engineering designed specifically to pick my pocket. That is most definitely deliberately taking something from me.[/quote]

Government policies very frequently have socioeconomic goals. For example, if you live in an area where only single-family detached houses are allowed, that is a policy with socioeconomic goals - one might call it social engineering. Transportation policies that favor some modes of transportation over others (for example, driving over taking buses or walking) are also social engineering. If rezoning for socioeconomic equity is social engineering, then so were the zoning decisions that established and maintained the socioeconomic inequity.

But is the policy designed specifically to make you poorer? I seriously doubt it. I mean, maybe the Board of Education has been meeting secretly in Columbia's smoky back rooms, saying, "Ha ha! Let's do a bunch of stuff so that affluent people will lose money! Wheeeee!", but it seems unlikely. More likely, the policy is designed to balance capacity issues and make sure that the poor kids aren't all in these schools over there while the rich kids are in those schools over here.[/quote]

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