Penn Hills School Board eliminates arts and creative studies (Plum: middle-class, for sale) - Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania (PA) - City-Data Forum

Hopes · 03-26-2010, 08:22 AM

The Penn Hill's School Board voted to eliminate electives in the arts and creative studies.

Only three of the nine school board members who voted have children attending school in Penn Hills.

I don't see how Penn Hills can ever recover if the school district is less appealing to prospective homebuyers with school aged children.

http://www.wpxi.com/news/22948603/detail.html

AaronPGH · 03-26-2010, 08:26 AM

Awful.

Craziaskowboi · 03-26-2010, 08:47 AM

Penn Hills was becoming a trashy place 20 years ago. This just seals the deal.

Hopes · 03-26-2010, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Gnutella

This just seals the deal.

That's my point! After this, there's just no hope left for Penn Hills. It's only going to get worse.

Copanut · 03-26-2010, 10:54 AM

A good friend of mine is retiring from the PH police department next year, I only hope he makes it out alive.

xtant64 · 03-26-2010, 02:24 PM

Penn Hills School District is one of the reasons the "Rosedale" section of Verona seems to have crappy re-sale values. I've had friends trying to sell their house (good price, great starter family house) for a while now, and once people hear Penn Hills Schools they get nervous if they have/want kids. It sucks since Oakmont is right next door and their school gets a lot more respect.

PeterRabbit · 03-26-2010, 03:47 PM

^^^ What part of Oakmont is right next door?

Pitts10yrs · 03-28-2010, 09:15 AM

I dont think its the school district but the parents, families, that live in the school district. Who is paying taxes, parenting their kids? If the school district has to spend money on security and special education for non responsible parents who is to blame for that? You can have that extra money for additional academics if it were not for all these other problems.

People talk like teachers are administrators are so different from school district to school district. You could easily take the teachers from a failing school distirct and place them in a better performing school district and get just as good results. It's the parents, and student populations that make up the district. Start looking at home and your neighbors if you want to blame someone.

robrobrob · 03-29-2010, 09:37 AM

Penn Hills was never the greatest place. It has been awful for a long time. Sure some places are better than others but it really is a lousy area with lousy schools. Have you seen how many houses are for sale there?

We are never going to figure out how to properly educate students without parental support and involvement. So lets quit trying and we should devote our resources to getting parents involved again.

Craziaskowboi · 03-29-2010, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by robrobrob

Penn Hills was never the greatest place. It has been awful for a long time. Sure some places are better than others but it really is a lousy area with lousy schools. Have you seen how many houses are for sale there?

Penn Hills is a town of equal quarters. It's 25% ghetto, 25% trailer park (sans actual trailers), 25% retirement enclave, and 25% middle-class suburb. These days, Monroeville and Murrysville, and Plum to a lesser extent, are the places to be.

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Originally Posted by robrobrob

We are never going to figure out how to properly educate students without parental support and involvement. So lets quit trying and we should devote our resources to getting parents involved again.

But you can't force parents to be more involved either. This is why the rich and educated get richer and more educated while the poor and ignorant become poorer and more ignorant: because they keep doing the things that made them rich/educated/poor/ignorant to begin with.