To: cyborg; durasell; rmlew
I remember when I lived in Bay Ridge, Fort Hamilton High School, which had 5,000 students, was located in the heart of a wealthy neighborhood. I always thought to myself who would want to live in an area of million $+ homes when you had to put up with the thugocracy running rampant through your nabe for at least two hours after school.
For those who are interested in such things, New York City's public schools are about 20% white. This is considerably more than Chicago (about 6%) and Houston (6% as well). If you take away Staten Island and the Honors high schools, I'm sure the percentage would be similar.
Of course, I could also show you a few private schools where most of the attendees are "people of color" and the parents care about their children's education. NOBODY WITH ANY SENSE would send their kids through the PS system.
49 posted on
10/10/2005 7:59:25 PM PDT by
Clemenza
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To: Clemenza
I never have had the fortune of actually being a student at an NYC public school, although I did pass the tests for Stuyvesant and Hunter. Competition is intense for places at these schools.
The problem is that private schools are obscenely expensive in New York. Some of the elite ones such as Collegiate, Trinity, Dalton, Horace Mann, and Ethical Culture charge over 20,000 a year. The lesser public schools are less expensive, but still expensive. Parochial schools, which may not provide the support of private schools, are at least safe and fairly rigorous. Unfortunately, the Catholic Church is increasingly unable to subsidize them. Even Middle class children, who are not gifted are screwed.
If the parents of white kids being bullied by their "peers" and belittled by leftist textbooks have any sense, they will join in a class action lawsuit for institutional bias.
Alternatively, if the queer kids can have a school, perhaps white kids can have one for their protection.
245 posted on
10/10/2005 11:19:40 PM PDT by
rmlew
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