My kids go to Oakview...south of Franklin ..Daughters are in college ...both private...one is NY and the other here in Lipscomb
baby is at University of Mommy’s he’s majoring in lap and boobies...
Oakview principal is one of us...a fine lady
I moved you knew that?
Me...I was at ground zero of first major forced busing in 7th grade 69-70 Christmas break at Hardy Jr High in Jackson MS...held us out for an extra week...i can still remember waiting with my daddy at the Clarion Liar docks to see if we were still zoned for Hardy
fed courts ruled to break it up...was freedom of choice prior to that and very segregated...maybe 5% black
after busing and white flight...became 70% black
and was just like this article..fights, rapes(and voluntary gang bangs) in the bathroom, weapons ...you name it baby..wide assed open with 7-9th grade...very very very racial...but still not the hostility I feel today...not even close
my folks put me in private my next year where I stayed till my long haired ganji smoking rebellious arse got kicked out of Jackson Prep and my dad took us to Fairhope AL where i did senior year at local public...a laid back 80% white sorta rural school
Jackson public schools are now 97% black I hear
progress is sure fun...
now you know why we moved out here....even JT Moore ain’t a great middle and my oldest boy has a talent for fisticuffs (it’s genetic) and I don’t want him in 5th grade at 10 fighting 15 year old black 8th grader wolf pack and getting killed over his lunch money
it really galls me..my businesses pay 300K per year in local property taxes ...
I know libs who sent their wimpy kids to Moore and the kids were beat to a pulp and all their crap taken first day...they forked over for Ensworth after all that..lol
I do hear they quit busing though....
folks who live in South Dakota or Kansas here and preach to us down here on this forum simply have no clue what it’s like...but Nashville has less of this than any other 1M plus town in the Southeast
Ah, OK. No, I didn’t know if you or your kids attended any of our fine (*cough*) public schools near the inner-city of Nashville. The one thing I seemed to witness most of all was less that of race, and more than of class. The kids that came from better families, two-parents (even especially the black kids) usually behaved themselves (although some of the spoiled-rotten little $hits would act no different than the thugs).
The kids that hailed from one-parent households were little better than thugs, angry at the world and taking it out on everyone. You’d see their moms show up at school every time their little darlings were hauled into the principal’s office. I mean this was around junior high and these women were in their early 30s, rode hard, put away wet, and they were angry, screaming harridan bitches, screaming at the staff, screaming at teachers, screaming at the principal. Dreadful. You almost felt sorry for the young punks with no daddy around. They’d get dragged out by the neck with their moms now screaming at them, telling them how they’re not better than their absent father (likely either in prison or off with some other honey).
I wondered how many of those young men ended up in prison (or dead) before long. I saw one guy’s pic and profile who was a classmate of mine who was a real thug at the beginning of the school year, but I reached detente with him eventually. He ended up going into the military, had a couple of kids, but is raising them alone. I was stunned when I saw the recent pic, he and I both looked younger than our age at the time (13) in 8th grade. While I still look younger (by quite a bit, 10 years or so) early mid 20s (even at 35), while he looks 45.