
06-17-2013, 11:55 AM
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Good, now all those students can go to a real prison instead of making their school into one.
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06-17-2013, 12:16 PM
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Location: Philadelphia
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Originally Posted by SourD
Good, now all those students can go to a real prison instead of making their school into one.
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You'd rather spend tax-payer money on extremely expensive prisons than educating our youth-when we already have the largest prison population and incarceration rate in the World, completely unjust laws, racially biased sentencing and a WAR that has become our nation's longest and costliest solely being waged in deindustrialized areas with severe lack of opportunity.
No need to discuss this any further with you, as you're part of the problem.
Last edited by 2e1m5a; 06-17-2013 at 12:33 PM..
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06-17-2013, 03:12 PM
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Location: Philadelphia
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And those in privileged positions wonder why the poor youth can't just all become hedge-fund managers like they did.
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06-17-2013, 03:16 PM
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Location: WY
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Good, now all those students can go to a real prison instead of making their school into one.
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A hunger strike may also be a step in the right direction to help bring down those national obesity stats.
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06-17-2013, 03:18 PM
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here's an idea, pay property taxes that most schools collect for funding. oh that's right, the properties in those neighborhoods aren't worth anything. the communities and the citizens are the problem.
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06-17-2013, 03:18 PM
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Location: Foot of the Rockies
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Maybe we shouldn't make it a dichotomy of schools vs prisons. I do not know the school situation in Philly; what I do know is that school closures are usually done for reasons of declining enrollment. People get upset when their school is being closed. I've seen that in affluent Boulder, CO.
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06-17-2013, 03:19 PM
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Originally Posted by SourD
Good, now all those students can go to a real prison instead of making their school into one.
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My kid attends a Philadelphia public school. The staff that have just been laid off - which is all of them - are fine human beings as are the kids. You are out of line, thank you.
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06-17-2013, 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by FinsterRufus
My kid attends a Philadelphia public school. The staff that have just been laid off - which is all of them - are fine human beings as are the kids. You are out of line, thank you.
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then there must be something wrong with the parents if there is no money for the school.
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06-17-2013, 03:25 PM
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Originally Posted by lionsgators
then there must be something wrong with the parents if there is no money for the school.
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The money has been mismanaged for many years. Their are a lot of very poor neighborhoods where there is no tax revenue to speak of.
Amtrak is delinquent in property taxes by 13 million dollars. That's a big problem right there. There's a serious delinquent tax problem in Philly where absentee owners owe millions of dollars and can't be found.
Which also causes vacant buildings and blight, but that's another topic.
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