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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]some would say that concentrating the middle-class in DC is not doing them any favors, either, given the bad schools in DC and the apparent inability to improve them, despite huge reform efforts.

Perhaps you didn't know that poor people came to DC of their own free will and like it here and do not wish to be "concentrated" elsewhere to make room for middle class families eager to move into a convenient urban environment.

It's fascinating how you can make it sound reasonable for them to move out, so you can move in.[/quote]

And yet...give those poor folks middle-class jobs and they're off to a house in the suburbs the second they've got money in the bank.  The only reason the very poor stay in cockroach and bedbug ridden tenement apartments in the city is inertia. Give them the opportunity to rent a decent house in the burbs and they're gone.

As far as your snide point about "concentrating the middle-class":  Haven't you heard? Poverty sucks. And being poor sucks. Concentrating the middle-class amplifies its virtues. Concentrating the poor amplifies poverty's horrors. If we want to get people out of poverty, the first step is to stop fetishizing poverty culture.

The return of the middle-class to DC is the greatest thing to happen to DC since the black middle-class moved out en masse over the 70s and 80s. It's absolutely the only hope for a decent education for DCs poor.[/quote]

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