Portland Tribune: Census shows that rich kids are leaving public schools behind

MSNBC online ^ | 2-19-02 | Todd Murphy of The Portland Tribune

[Salvation]

Those are just the two latest. There's also the "school children" being bussed to Salem to lobby for tax increases during the Special Session of the Legislature controversy.

Do you have any news articles about this? I believe you, I just think it would be great to expose these schools and their hypocrisy.

[SAMWolf]

Pupils hustle to find buses for Salem trip

[Salvation]

Sounds like Gerry Blakney and the other students need to concentrate on:
Reading
Writing
Arithmetic
rather than trying to be social and political activist in Oregon City.

Thanks for the article link.

[Jim Noble]

It's not rich kids-it's white kids.

The migration of whites away from urban (and now suburban) areas has been enormous-it is one of the greatest untold demographic stories of the last fifty years.

It is at least comparable to the Northward migration of blacks from "down home" in the WWII and post-WWII era.

[oldfart]

Like most cities and states, Oregon and Portland 'rate' their schools from time-to-time. They did so recently and severely dislocated their collective arms and shoulders by slapping themselves on the backs.

It seems that nearly all the schools showed some improvement over previous surveys.

The next issue of the local fish-wrap (The Oregonian) then carried stories about how the standards by which the schools had been measured were too lax.

I find it all very amusing since I am one of those who have fled the open sewer known as Portland Public Schools. My daughter went to a neighborhood public school for three years (K-1-2) before we elected to go with a private school. We visited several small, church-oriented schools in the area before settling on St. Stephen's. With only 130 students (K thru 8) she was bound to get smaller classes than in public school, and the religious education certainly wouldn't hurt her either.

Of course, she complained about wearing a uniform, and she didn't like this or that or something else, but what kid doesn't have something to dislike about school? Still, she was finally convinced about the quality of her education when she visited her brothers' school in Vancouver (WA). She noticed that the history book he was using in his 11th grade class was the same book she had used in her 7th grade class! Then when she visited his math class (it was open-house at his school,) she found that he was studying the very same things she had worked on that day in her 8th grade math class!

Next year, God willing, she'll start at La Salle High School and continue to learn.

By the way, for those who live in the Portland area, the tuition for St. Stephen's isn't as bad as you'd think. This year it's $2950 for Catholics, slightly more for others, and can be broken up into 10 payments. I suppose next year it'll have to go up $20 or so, but it's well worth it. This year the school had students representing 39 different religious or ethnic backgrounds.

I don't mean to make this sound like a commercial, but St. Stephen's has been very good for my daughter. I reccommend it highly.

[oldfart]

There's another thread running right now, called "The Family Under Seige." Long but very interesting.

[He'sComingBack!]

You are correct. The real reason people are pulling out of the Public (Government) School System is that they are teaching PC garbage masked in a quandry of socialized experimentation resulting in a WORTHLESS education!!! Time to "Get Real": Reading, Writing (english please!), Arithmetic and Western History!!!

[Salvation]

If I had it to do over again, I would put my kids in Catholic school. Here's the thread, The Family Under Seige. Excellent read.