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[quote=Anonymous]We used to live in an area with primarily brown and black families.  One of our neighbors lived in a townhome similar to the style of the ones in Stone Mill community and at one point had three families, and we counted 18 people living in there.

I was happy in that community and open to the idea of my kids going to school there.  But with my spouse having gone to what people on this board calls one of the worse schools in this county, they demanded that we move to an area with a reputable school.

What I later saw was that these families were getting free things from the county.  While we were busting our butts off to provide similar things for our kids.  Specifically I was seeing their kids going off to the bus stop for free preschool, while we were paying a lot of money for preschool.  So figured one of the benefits of living in an area with more similar people is that we're all in the same boat and live similar lifestyles.  So went on board with moving.

We could've moved to one of the richer W school areas but chose not to.

What I'm seeing in this back and forth in this thread, is that there are differences between opinions on standards of education.

Didn't Jerry Seinfeld talk about how people are condemning people with privilege and how nowadays we are becoming embarassed of things that we should be proud about and proud of things that we should be embarassed about in his graduation speech at Duke?  Here's the short clip of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsmL1AImWLo  (I don't know what the Rubin Report is and hopefully I didn't link to some right winger channel but wanted to link the short clip of the video)

The so called good schools are actually getting stronger in these proposals and it's really just the neighborhoods on the outskirts that are potentially affected.  And it's like the neighborhoods in those schools are in a castle surrounded by a moat or up in an ivory tower.

I initially had no interest in living in these areas and am not interested in my kids attending ivies or a school like Duke.

But if our standards match those of the people living in those neighborhoods, it would make sense that we should consider moving into one of those neighborhoods to be around likeminded people.[/quote]

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