Re: Low Income housing in McLean, Vienna and Great Falls
Posted by:
nopenot
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Date: November 04, 2015 11:34PM
fairfax taxpayer naive Wrote:
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> Fairfax Taxpayer -
>
> It is difficult to speak to the truth. Ok, I get
> it, it is a nice thought to provide all schools
> with the needed resources, provide a rigorous well
> rounded and excellent curriculum, and of course,
> excellent teachers.
>
> The reality:
>
> Most of the recent immigrants have cognitive
> abilities far below that of the long time, middle
> class residents in Fairfax County. I know, I
> know, you will be voting for Janie Strauss. But
> how many people with 75 IQ's do you or Janie
> routinely interact with? I doubt many. It is a
> very different world than the one you inhabit,
> especially in terms of future time orientation,
> memory, and analytic abilities. The idea of
> expending resources is a nice thought but the
> racial achievement gap has not been closed
> anywhere in the country, including Fairfax,
> despite the expenditure of billions of dollars.
> The cognitive gaps are real, and so are the
> problems which arise when you put the 75 IQ kids
> in the classroom with the 120 or higher IQ kids.
> Standards lower, behaviors are worse, and that is
> just the way it is. The Straussian bromides do
> not change this result. Perhaps re-introducing
> very structured tracking would help, but that
> would bring charges of de facto segregation. I
> don't blame middle class parents for their fears,
> but it is unfortunate no one can talk honestly
> about the cognitive gap which drives these
> problems.
>
> Excellent teachers? I support FCPS on this score.
> They typically are competent, if not better. But
> if you want a diverse teaching force, good luck.
> Blacks in particular have a hugely difficult task
> in passing the licensure exams. Perhaps you
> could lower the passing scores (and that may be
> the right thing to do based on the data), but the
> problem in lowering the passing scores is that it
> interrupts the narrative (held by both liberals
> and conservatives) that we need excellent
> teachers. (It is easier for minority students to
> get into a law school than to pass a licensure
> exam). Again, you can overlook the cognitive
> skills gap and pretend it will all work out, but
> the gap exists, has not closed since the civil
> rights era, and is the Voldemort problem no one
> can acknowledge.
>
> As to housing concentration, it is undeniable that
> Section 8 and public housing brings with it high
> volumes of crime and uncivil behavior. Some
> academics object to this, claiming that the crime
> would have occurred anyway due to neighborhood
> changes, and are loathe to deem housing programs
> as the cause. But to someone living in or near
> those neighborhoods, the academic distinction
> between correlation and causation is meaningless.
> There is simply far more crime when Section 8 and
> public housing arrives.
>
> Look, I am not blaming Strauss or any other
> candidate. If any candidate expressed the views I
> have just expressed, well, they would stand no
> chance of election, or with the gooey, emotional
> press. But don't kid yourself, the cognitive
> shortcomings of a growing part of the school
> population are real, they are made worse by the
> kill and drill testing regime, they cause an
> imbalance in teacher diversity, and clearly make,
> despite shibboleths to the contrary, the schools a
> less attractive place for the focused, bright and
> ambitious (although someone like you could argue
> this group will find a way to do well no matter
> what, especially since there are most often two
> caring parents involved).
>
> In any event, some food for thought.
What you propose would rip apart the fabric of society. I don't think the press is being gooey and emotional, journalists make the top 10 list for psychopaths.
They can pretend to be gooey and emotional on things that don't truly threaten the status quo. Such as equality for 1% of the population, who are gay, who want to get married. Such as equality for the 15% ( if that) of women who have IQ's above 120 who honestly want to succeed in a profession.
Most of their "equality" talk in the end just makes life more miserable for the average American.
The real "equality" would be everybody getting an I.Q test and understanding that if you test at 75 and make $10 an hour working your ass off, its really quite "UNEQUAL" that someone with a 125 I.Q makes $100,000 a year putting prescriptions in a bottle at a pharmacy.
I.Q equality would end life has everybody knows it. They can pretend to care about low income people and put them in a few houses for cheap, just something to make them look to be something they aren't- caring. These low income houses aren't going anywhere near the mansions.