School District Implements Busing Over... Opposition, Chinese Immigrants See Communism

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[Mogger]

These people need to understand that the modern Democrat party is no different to the communist regimes they left.

One of my friends and his wife escaped the Soviet Union

They are appalled at the democrat party and RINOs, and vote 100% Republican.

He says this reminds him of Soviet Russia.

He would like to go back now as the USA and Russia seem to be crossing paths, with Russia becoming more free and the USA losing freedom.

He doesn't think they will let him back in though.

He was a crew member on a nuclear sub.

I've been brushing up on my high school Russian just in case.

Russia can be a fun place to live these days.

[The_Media_never_lie]

County Executive Calvin Ball, a Democrat, has a “chauffeur and personal security,”

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Just, wow!

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Mr. Ball is a very large man. A few good firearm training lessons, CCW permit, and self driving car, and with the savings, Howard County could hire a couple of more teachers. But, the security person and chauffeur are more prestigious.

[AnonymousConservative]

You could be right about Chinese voting democrat. But I am seeing things in real life which make me think a lot of things like that, which we are told, are actually not true. They are actually excuses put out there by “something” which is performing voter fraud at a rate where they need to put excuses like that out there to explain the shifts, or we would get suspicious.

People don’t know how bad things have gotten in the US. Q sounds ridiculous, but having seen little pieces of something which is beyond all belief, he actually sounds far closer to the reality I see than the fake news mass media.

[dp0622]

I don’t know NEARLY enough about Q to make a sound judgement call.

But the folks who follow are ardent Trump supporters and that’s good enough for me.

And you are right about the cheating at the polls.

But the thing is Staten Island went almost 60 percent for Trump.

My house district seat encompasses ALL of Staten Island and a small piece of Brooklyn.

There is NO WAY this jerk Rose wins the seat if it’s just Staten Island voting.

And that part of Brooklyn that is part of our district is now heavily russian and asian and albanian. The ones I know personally are dems.

Boy it seems like people who come from socialist or communist countries take a little while to figure out which party really is against those ideologies.

My people, the Italians and Sicilians were dems for a few generations before we got sick of the identity politics around the late 1960s.

I think these other groups will come around too.

But there is massive fraud and it needs to end before the next election!!

[Enterprise]

"The Howard County, Maryland, school board voted to implement a massive, 1970s-style busing program Thursday, despite overwhelming opposition."

Someone's getting paid.

[sphinx]

In the last census, Howard's population was 62 percent white. That figure will have fallen by now; how much, I don't know. Its public schools are now 37 percent white and falling fast. Welcome to the future.

The public school student breakdown in Howard is 37.3 percent white; 23.6 percent black; 21.9 percent Asian; and 10.7 percent Hispanic. The remainder are mostly mixed race, with a few American Indians, Pacific Islanders, etc. thrown in. So for the moment, there is still a white plurality and a white/Asian majority. These are the virtue signaling democrats' targets.

Howard is full of people who fled Washington and Baltimore, and then the inner ring suburban counties, largely in search of better schools. Howard is pretty far out, at the effective end of the commuting range for most people. Its residents are now discovering that they can run but they can't hide.

Voucher the $&^#* public schools and be done with it. White liberals will destroy all traces of excellence in their drive to engineer equality of results. They can't build up. They can only level downward. I no longer believe the public school systems are salvageable. Get out.

[Pollard]

That would make a good campaign commercial. Show their mansions(multiple + things like Pelosi’s winery) contrasted against their shithole districts. Show how their net worth has increased contrasted against stats for the district.(violence, poverty, dropping quality of education etc)

[Freee-dame]

Nearby Baltimore has quite a few outstanding, and very expensive, private schools. A large number of wealthy city residents attend them as well as some from Howard County. Most middle class city residents just move to the suburbs when their children become school age.

[Tired of Taxes]

The parents quoted in the article weren’t complaining about the “race” of students. Their issue seems to be location - and the fact that students prefer the schools they attend now.

But, it sounds as if their school system is county-run. So then, their county makes the decision on where to send students.

That’s what happens when you take something “for free” like “free” education. If the parents paid with their own money to send their children to private schools, for example, then they would have control over their children’s education.

Another solution to their problem is to break up the county school system into separate districts controlled by each town. Then, if the number of students grow in their town, they could build a bigger building, or pay a neighboring town to take the overflow of students. Their property taxes might go through the roof, but their schools would be controlled locally.

[BuffaloJack]

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

[sphinx]

I am sure that Howard County residents, most of them, do not care about race per se. The exceptions would be the usual suspects in the race-obsessed political factions, but they are a small minority of parents (though apparently a majority on the school board). The parents DO care about good schools, which is a primary reason that a lot of them moved out to Howard. And they care about neighborhood schools, which is an important lifestyle factor as well as something that supports a sense of community (and property values).

The practical reality is that many of these parents shopped the school when they bought their house. Many of them bought the best school district and the best in-boundary school they could afford. Now the school board is pulling a switcheroo. A lot of kids are going to get hit with a long bus ride to a lesser school. That's the problem. I'm far enough away that I don't know the reputations of the individual Howard County schools, but I'll bet very few of the complaints are coming from parents whose kids will be bussed to a better school.

[Tired of Taxes]

I looked up that county school system. Assuming I found the right one, that county oversees 77 schools and more than 57,000 students. (Wow.) Supposedly, some schools are overflowing with students. (Maybe because everyone’s moving near the better schools, as you pointed out.)

So, the overflow of students might be one factor. But, the BOE’s decision probably has more to do with money and job protection. This particular school system gets high ratings, and Forbes once voted it one of the most “cost-effective” (Wikipedia). Maybe moving the free-lunch students around generates a greater spread of government money...? And maybe they think shifting students around will boost the overall performance of underperforming schools.

Whatever the case, I have no sympathy at all for the parents, especially the immigrant parents expressing shock at the BOE’s decision - the ones calling it “socialist.” I’d like to tell them, you know, public school itself is a socialist idea. Don’t like it? Pull the kids out. Want real freedom? Go pay for your children’s education yourself. It’s very difficult for those of us who didn’t send our kids to public school (but still had to pay for it) to sympathize. lol