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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is hilarious. Without NW residents, all of DC public schools would be a dump. But it doesn't really matter because it has been proven that throwing money at the problem won't change people who don't prioritize education. [/quote]

It is much easier to prioritize education when you do not need to worry about the physical safety of you and your family, having a roof over your head, and knowing where your next meal is going to come from. Given how liberal DC is, it surprises me how outspoken and out of touch the conservative minority is in DC.[/quote]

It is easier to go to the bathroom when you have a nice bathroom too. That doesn't change the facts it would behoove people to prioritize figuring out a way. There will always be poor people who will have to work 10x as hard to get just parity with normal people let alone the privilege of those who have generations of momentum inside the ownership culture. I don't understand the utopia people claim to be fighting for. Every parent works to impart privilege to their kids, what would be the point if every generation resets and all kids get a equal shot at success?

Even then; if parents, race, wealth aren't acceptable ways to pick the winners and losers  (ok you might have a point) you tell me what ways are ok to pick the winners and losers. Pick any way you wan't but there has to be about 50% of the people below the middle class and about 1 rich person for every 100 cattle.

1. IQ? (how has standardize testing worked out so far)   
2. Work ethic? Poor people already work way harder, people get rich not to work
3. scholastic performance? Good luck competing with the GAP, hell this way doesn't work out so great for white people either. 
4. Morality? Moving target
5. Entitlement? Sorry that's the current system and the seat is taken  
6. Citizenship?

Please help me out, how do you pick winners and losers when nobody wants to be a loser? How to you tell the winners that they can't help their kids because the losers aren't in a position to help their kids?  Now do all of this in a capitalist system that has more losers than winners and the only real predictor is ownership.... and everything is already owned.

Truth is that what we are really talking about is breaking up the ownership class and redistributing. I hope people aren't holding their breath for that. [/quote]

It is not about picking winners and losers. It is about making sure that everyone has a safe place to live and enough food to eat. It is also about making sure someone having a health problem doesn't set back an entire family generations and that those who do care about education can afford to get a quality education.[/quote]

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