California is home to the Bradley effect , so in a way, this story shouldn't surprise us. Nonetheless, this tale is impressive for its imaginative completeness. It is a fully realized vision of the extent to which privileged white people can be horrible, how complaints don't matter unless they're registered by the right people, and how public shaming can still work. The story takes place in Orinda, CA, once named the second-friendliest town in America by
the people who live in those local school districts do. The affluent ones simply choose to continue the status quo of disparate district by district funding because it happens to benefit their own children. They could vote to change to state wide funding at any time if they wanted to
Amazing, ain't it? Poor districts have 40 year old, dog eared text books and rich districts have their own private eye. Then the rich white parents moral scold the poor kids for being lazy and undisciplined when their test scores don't measure up.
Just a thought- you wouldn't have poorz trying to sneak into affluent school districts if there wasn't such a disparity in the quality of education from one district to another. It seems to me the solution would be state wide funding of education. I would think that it would be a much more efficient (not to mention fair) use of tax payer money than rich people hiring private dicks to keep poor kids from getting the same education their kids get.
Time for the good residents of Orinda to out the shit weasel parent who complained about the brown, servant's kid attending 'their' public school. Even odds every parent in the school knows which social status climbing, cretin is responsible for sicking the school PI on the kid in the first place.
the people who live in those local school districts do. The affluent ones simply choose to continue the status quo of disparate district by district funding because it happens to benefit their own children. They could vote to change to state wide funding at any time if they wanted to
in their opinion it was. poor people need to know their place- literally.
ROFL, you really think only one parent was grumbling?
eggzactly- then blame the kids for underachieving
Kudos to Storch for her support. I don't care what her motivation was.
Substitute black male teenager for adorable little girl -- and wonder how this would have turned out.
much better to spend that money to deny a poor person a good education than to share some of it to give both kids a chance
Amazing, ain't it? Poor districts have 40 year old, dog eared text books and rich districts have their own private eye. Then the rich white parents moral scold the poor kids for being lazy and undisciplined when their test scores don't measure up.
...maybe they should've done something a little more subtle? Like build a fence around the school and hire ICE agents as hall monitors?!
build the dang fence!
Just a thought- you wouldn't have poorz trying to sneak into affluent school districts if there wasn't such a disparity in the quality of education from one district to another. It seems to me the solution would be state wide funding of education. I would think that it would be a much more efficient (not to mention fair) use of tax payer money than rich people hiring private dicks to keep poor kids from getting the same education their kids get.
Time for the good residents of Orinda to out the shit weasel parent who complained about the brown, servant's kid attending 'their' public school. Even odds every parent in the school knows which social status climbing, cretin is responsible for sicking the school PI on the kid in the first place.