Quote from STC Capital:
What I came in here to say.
Before anyone accuse me of being racist, I'm black myself.

Quote from Pekelo:
"the article suggests that the Black and Latino communities are leaving the city in droves." [/B]
Quote from Whistlingleaf:
That's what I was saying above - people who have kids and want them to go to good schools move to best suburbs they can afford.
The 7% decrease is people moving away from the worst neighborhoods to the suburbs - that's why they closed all those schools like last or so.
Quote from jem:
people don't like paying massive taxes and getting rotted infrastructure and poor schools in return.
I think the thing the left leaves out of their socialist dream is that the govt has to perform if its going to tax the hell out of people.
So people look at their pay vs their net and say what the hell am I paying money to those idiots for? they steal my income, tell me I should pay for sandra flucks condoms and abortions. They provide terrible education for my kids and then give themselves big salaries and send their kids to private schools.
Quote from zdreg:
if public school teachers were obligated to send their own children to public schools the quality of public schools would improve very quickly.