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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been following these threads for a bit and probably shouldn't engage, but I feel compelled. Reading these threads fills me with an odd mixture of bewilderment, amusement, and dread. Maybe it's basic human instinct, but I just don't understand the need to demonize parents simply based on which side of Rt. 50 they live. I don't understand how something as seemingly simple as quality education for all our children brings out the very worst in people. Maybe it's the anonymity, but I cringe reading some of the terrible things stated here.[/quote]

It's simple. Rich people north of 50 think they have grounds for clamoring for good schools, but somehow their culturally equivalent slightly less wealthy peers in SA are supposed to F off. Move or shut up, don't threaten the political compact that says NA is for the rich, SA for the poor.
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This is a good example of part of the problem. When people are branded wholesale as assholes regardless of what they say or do, they tend to check out and not want to make personal sacrifices to help the people spitting on them.[/quote]

And to honest, I'd rather be helping the ESL kids in Title I schools than the white pseudo-SJW trying to piggy-back off their pain.
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Wanna help? Move there. Oh, you'd rather stay in a high performing school zone and just throw money at the problem? THAT is the problem, not SA parents agitating for integrated schools.[/quote]

Nope, moving there wouldn't help the ESL kids at all.  It would help the SA homeowners with buyer's remorse who bought in Title 1 school zones.[/quote]

Yes, it would. The problem is the status quo: the belief that SA should stay how it is, so that NA can stay how it is. It's only with that mindset that the PP comment about buyers remorse makes sense. That somehow SA homeowners have no right to buy a house there and agitate for better schools. That somehow, "you get what u pay for." And nothing can change, ever. That's a mindset that makes perfect sense to NA people who paid a premium to avoid socioeconomically integrated schools and perceive SA efforts to have that very thing as underhanded, a short cut, a bail out etc. they think SA parents want the same thing they did and paid for. We don't. We want something different, and frankly, better for everyone. 
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I firmly believe that I pay the same for my $850-900K house that homeowners in north Arlington pay for their $850-900K house.  So I don't buy the rationale behind the argument that you get what you pay for and that North Arlington has paid for "more" or "better."  So I guess I simply GET less for my $850-900K because there are so many more rental units and homes that cost so much less in the south; and it's the people living in THOSE homes that are "getting what they paid for."  Yet, I don't, merely because I purchased property south of route 50?

What NA has actually "bought" is a wealthy homogeneous voice that guarantees they will never have to give-up anything, including their sense of entitlement and superiority.[/quote]

Plenty of people in NA (myself included) who paid much less than you did.  It all depends on when they bought.  What I paid doesn't matter.  What you expect me to do to validate your housing decision?  That matters.[/quote]

You only  support my argument that it isn't " you get what you pay for."  People have paid a lot north and south; and people have paid less north and south. But people in north and south are not receiving the same.[/quote]

Which most folks in SA knew would happen when they chose to live there.[/quote]

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