Posted on 12/10/2018 8:57:21 AM PST by SeekAndFind
What if this sort of thing had been in place earlier. Would there have been a YoYo Ma? Would Robin Williams have been accepted at Julliard?
Considering, that every Monday morning, we are given a death toll from the weekend in Chicago; I imagine that they are losing students.
I know, I know, it is "white" flight.
“In a push to improve diversity at District 15 middle schools in Brooklyn, Mayor de Blasio last week approved a plan to remove admission standards at all of them.”
There is a reason why increasing diversity ALWAYS means removing or reducing standards. Diversity is NOT a strength, it is an excuse for replacing the best with the second rate. We cannot stay on top by promoting the “good enough”.
They tried the bussing issue when I was a kid. Parents raised holy hell and it was shot down. I remember my folks saying we’d be sent to private schools if ghetto trash was gonna show up to eff up our education. I was 10 and remember it vividly. By the time I graduated hs we had one, only one black at our school.
If you have ever seen a commercial for Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) there is a line that states “The world equally distributes talent but not opportunity”. That is the kind of stupidity the left promotes. It leads to the less able thinking they are being discriminated against when they are simply not as talented or driven as others.
You could always tell which side of the border you were by the condition of the farms houses and farms.
The farms and houses in Switzerland were nicely landscaped , immaculately maintained, freshly painted in attractive paint schemes, and all the farm equipment was well organized, properly stored and in good condition.
The farms and houses in Italy were very run down, the landscaping haphazard, the houses had had stucco peeling off the walls with faded, dirty paint and decaying wood with faded paint peeling off , all the farm equipment was strewn about and in poor, rusty condition.
Even if the houses were a few hundred feet of each other and separated by an invisible border
Yankees love to lecture southerners on this
Uh huh
Pasadena is rich
They can afford the stupidity of school busing
Lot of folks can’t
That court ordered LAUSD bussing is what blew up the San Fernando Valley. Families that could move headed for Orange County leaving large parts of the Valley to be colonized by Mexico.
People forget why liberals are despised by the people they have treated like pawns.
Perhaps that was their intention.
No, Pasadena is not rich. Busing destroyed the schools for ALL of the students. Those who could afford to, fled.
I don’t think so. This was in the mid to late ‘70s and the illegal alien invasion wasn’t yet on anyone’s radar.
The soon to be vacant housing in the SFV may have helped encourage illegals to move here, but the motivation of the judicial overlords was the usual compulsory racial integration that they had been forcing on school systems all over the country. And the reaction of affected families in the Valley was to move away.
There was probably more damage done to communities by liberal judges making godlike social engineering rulings than there was damage done by criminals.
Oh please
I was there a few months ago
You must have been gone a while
Median income is 105,000
Median home price is 550,000
I toured the shopping district downtown and ate supper at The Luggage....very good
For we rubes in flyover land it’s rich
It ain’t Holmby Hills
But it’s very nice
Especially the old neighborhoods that face towards Glendale in the heights above Suicide Bridge
Very very nice
Pasadena is a mix, it has some very wealthy neighborhoods along its perimeter.
https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/pasadena
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