Family of 6 thinking of moving to Louisville..

[Peter1948]

Originally Posted by tomocox

The key to what you say is "advanced program." I am one who continually blasts JCPS in favor of parochial, Oldham, or Indiana schools. Not once in my blasting have I ever said a child can't get a good education in JCPS. What I have said is that the odds are better. The sad part of JCPS is that there are some outstanding schools, but for every great JCPS school there are two bottom dwellers. The odds of a newly relocating family getting their child(ren) into Manual or Male for example is nearly zero.

Under any reasonable standard whether it be educational, social, civic, political, or economic, busing is a terrible failure. Since this is a presidential election year, all one must do is to simply ask the Reaganistic question, "after 30 years of busing, are the children of color better off as adults than they were?"

Wow, you seem befuddled that PRP produced an upstanding college graduate? Bravo to the Ohio poster...come back though, I assure you Louisville is a much better city than anything in Ohio! Also, Tom, the use of "children of color" is a big no no in modern times. It is worse than not being politically correct, it is just downright derorgatory. I know you didn't mean it, but a word to the wise.....

[tomocox]

Originally Posted by stx12499

Wow, you seem befuddled that PRP produced an upstanding college graduate? Bravo to the Ohio poster...come back though, I assure you Louisville is a much better city than anything in Ohio! Also, Tom, the use of "children of color" is a big no no in modern times. It is worse than not being politically correct, it is just downright derorgatory. I know you didn't mean it, but a word to the wise.....

Children of color is the proper wording as I meant it. You can include any color child you wish to involve. Once again, your generation's "no-no" is an automatic racist reply. Whether a child be white, yellow, red, black, blue or green, color is a fair word. Your kind chastising while very appreciated is exactly what is wrong with the presidential election. All the racism is coming from the left because the right is working so hard to be sure there is absolutely none.

But derogatory, absolutely not unless facts are no longer facts.

[Peter1948]

Originally Posted by tomocox

Children of color is the proper wording as I meant it. You can include any color child you wish to involve. Once again, your generation's "no-no" is an automatic racist reply. Whether a child be white, yellow, red, black, blue or green, color is a fair word. Your kind chastising while very appreciated is exactly what is wrong with the presidential election. All the racism is coming from the left because the right is working so hard to be sure there is absolutely none.

But derogatory, absolutely not unless facts are no longer facts.

Tom, please explain further if you don't mind? What is wrong with the election and my generation? I assume you refer to generation X?

[tomocox]

This thread is not the thread to go deeply into philosophy, but in my experience, Gen X is a very emotional rather than logical group of people. A case in point is how offensive I feel the term African-American is. This feel good term is actually a very divisive term. Think about it, the only time the term is of true importance is when medically necessary. Every other time it is used, it becomes an excuse. As you and I have discussed many times, there is no need for the number of murders and other violent crime in Louisville, yet white folks such as you and I allow it to happen because we can't talk about the real truth of how 90% of such murders are minority on minority crime.

You of Gen X in your attempt to be as GHW Bush termed a 1000 points of light, have failed in tough love in my opinion. Politically correct politics are costing lots of people homes, incomes, and life itself.