Posted on 10/10/2005 7:32:44 PM PDT by Coleus
I was accepted to Stuy and would have been there between 1982-1986 if I wasn't accepted at Regis (private, Jesuit), where I graduated in 1986.
The few folks I knew at Stuy burned out. Go figure.
I like Regis, Stuy, and Bronx Sci a lot tho!
Same one you do.
New York isn't liberal. It's all about business. And the fact of the matter is, some liberal ideas just happen to coincide with the business environment in NYC. Liberal is the line they sell. The reality is hardcore business.
Brown vs the Board of Education, hasn't that been done?
My sister attended Sacred Heart 1988-1992 or so, I think. I think it was one of Regis's sister schools too. GREAT SCHOOL!
Funny, work-matters and experiencing different people and ways of life were the exact same reasons I LEFT NYC! Haha!
Get a good slang dictionary. Most of the terms will be in there. (Paper verison - I have found the online slang dictionaries to be somewhat inadequate).
Suggestion - have some fun with this. Get a small notebook, and when they use a term you don't know (or even one you do), stop them mid-sentence, whip out the notebook, smile, and sweetly ask them what it means so you can write it down.
I will take that back, though...as I said previously that the only people I ever knew who were (are) racist are my husband's family in Hartford, CT. Their eye-rolling always appalled me. But I didn't grow up with any sort of racism and I truly do nor have any friends who are. I have black friends, as well...mostly middle-to-upper middle class.
lol! I must admit there are some who look at me with total incredulity when I ask what something means. I guess I just tune most of it out. :)
I wonder if the mugging took.
Liberalism in New York is less about Seattle-style Kum-ba-ya and more about high taxes to support a bureaucracy that Otto Von Bismark would envy.
Bill O'Reilly once referred to Manhattan as the Balkans because everyone has a competing agenda. However, the strongest voices for the liberal agenda reside in NYC. Their views couldn't rule anywhere else in the country, so they gather together in NYC out of a certain herd instinct. NYC offers them safety in numbers.
15 yrs ago, I had to yank my kid out of 6th grade because he got ganged up on like this....ending up with a concussion and 4 broken ribs. His crime? Telling a black kid (8th grader) to quit hitting him with a notebook, while waiting in the busline at school.
My son was new at the school....small for his size and hadn't made any friends yet. The principal wouldn't do anything because he feared retribution from the parents of the 5 black kids who attacked my son. I pressed charges on all of them....dealt with harrassing phone calls, stalking, etc. I finally just took my son out of the school, sold our new house and moved to the country.
I didn't have that problem here, but in a small, rural community where everyone knows everybody.....things like this don't get swept under the rug for the sake of being PC. The kids made friends, both black and white....but the difference was and is...the attitude of ALL the parents.
"I homeschooled by youngest through 8th grade. When I wanted him to experience 'diversity' , I beat him up and took his money."
What a great post! Bravo! I was also in VN 68, 69, 70.
Best wishes to you.
So what's the verdict? Was it worth leaving NYC for Vegas?
I have lived and worked in Illinois for almost 40 years and have experienced voluntary segregation in the work place and in factory cafeterias and in society as a whole.
Last Feb. after going to Mardi Gras my wife and I stopped to eat at a resturant just north of New Orleans, while there a work crew of some sort came in, there were about 20 of them and obviously they were there to have breakfast before starting work. The crew was half white half black and I expected they would seat themselves along racial lines. What happened however was that they seated themselves at tables for four on an almost 50/50 split. They couldn't have been more racially integrated if they tried.
Their time there was full of laughing and talking and having a good time. It impressed me because in 40 years I had never seen anything like it in the north.
Yeah, i just meant that in what seems to be a majority of cases, the black kids seem to think it's ok to hate white kids, especially in the worse areas. Indianapolis Public Schools is one example (from my town). That system is dysfunctional, and whites get the worst of it.
Agreed!
Blessed Sacrament? The one near Lincoln Center? I went there for second and third grades. 1969-1971. From fourth through twelfth, I went to St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's, near Columbia U.
Nam Vet
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