My new town has severe class distinction

[HEyHEY]

I was at a schoolboard reconfiguration meeting last night. Basically it's a small town and they wanna make the two schools one. I couldn't believe how many people stood up and basically said "I' don't want my kids going to school with the poor kids." IT was sick to see a town so severly divided by class in this day and age.

Anyone else grow up in a town like this? DO they not realize that if they get their act together a united town is better?

[noiretextatique]

1. yep: Los Angeles

:hi:

[camero]

2. Right here in Tampa

http://www.weeklyplanet.com/2004-02-19/letters.html




Tired of poor people

I read your article several times to help me understand where you are coming from. I agree with you on having an intelligent and well-thought plan to make this project work for everyone involved. What I don't agree is making it sound like it's such a bad thing to want to change that area into something beautiful. I am a taxpayer and my tax dollars are being spent on these projects and I think they should be monitored.

The morons like the letter writer in the link above live everywhere.
Of course, you can't have rich people without poor people yet we say that greed is good?

Good to see ya HeyHey.

[DuctapeFatwa]

3. from the article above

" Their homes are subject to housekeeping inspections, they must register all guests in advance, and restrictions are placed on where they are allowed to gather with family and friends. If their children get into trouble, the whole family can be thrown out"

[camero]

5. Sickening isn't it?

And we call this freedom? I have to say this is the worst place I have ever seen when it comes to attitudes towards the poor.

[mdmc]

4. Newburgh, NY

Just above Westchester, NY. Nice middle - upper class housing surrounding a 3 square mile 200% below the poverty line ghetto.

We start every city council meeting with a prayer.

[ironflange]

6. Hi, long time no see

Are you still in your old undisclosed town or have you moved?

[HEyHEY]

9. I'm in my new undisclosed location

for you though, I'll disclose check your pm

[not systems]

7. Oakland is the same way...

you can tell rich from poor by the elevation of the home.

Flatlands are poor and hills are rich with a freeway
running right between the two worlds.

The class line and the race line are very similar.

[underpants]

8. Aren't you in the south?

I grew up in the south so I'm not bagging on it. As Bruce Hornsby said "That's just the way it is...somethings will never change".

In the counties west of Richmond (but short of Roanoke) there are tons of "private" schools. The popped up right after Brown v. Board of Education. They aren't that costly but they get to decide WHO gets in and who doesn't.

I grew up on the Va. peninsula and there is a city (city and counties are separate around here) called Poquoson (Indian for "big Swamp") with no blacks in it, okay there was one black family when I was in high school. One of my best friends lives there. It is bordered by Newport News and Hampton, as of the mid 80's there were more blacks in NN than in West Virginia. Very white and will stay that way.

I later found out that the first big development in the York County (right across Geo.Washington Hwy-route17 from the high school) didn't have any blacks in it because real estate people bump the price up 10-20K if a black family was looking. It was built in the 70's so it's not like it is mansions or anything but I found that out just about 10 years ago and was quite shocked. The county exploded in population (Military) and they wanted to reconfigure who went to what school. The only solution that made sense was to send the kids from that neighborhood to a tiny mostly black high school near Williamsburg (you actually pass through Lackey Va. to get there yes as in lackeys it was were the slaves for Yorktown and Williamsburg lived) that idea didn't last very long.

The intermediate school me and all my friends went to was exactly the same layout as the high school we went to except the high school had a wing on the back and a big gym, the intermediate school was the black high school in the separate but equal days.

[HEyHEY]

10. South? No man I'm in Canada

:-)

[underpants]

11. Sorry had you confused with someone else

I saw the flag avatar but thought you had moved down here. Sorry.:spank:

Got any room up there? :bounce:

[HEyHEY]

12. yeah, and it's cheap

I can rent a house here for like $385 a month

[underpants]

13. WOW where?

If you don't mind, if you do I understand.

[maxanne]

14. I grew up

in a town that didn't really have poor people. :scared:

It was a wealthy little community, and I was supposed to grow up to be Muffy and marry Biff. I've been something of a disappointment. }(

I now live in a town so small (how small is it, maxanne?) that we have a 2 room schoolhouse. No segregation is possible here.