School Lottery and moving to Portland

[Mbrwr]

Originally Posted by onetruesteph

I really hope not. My opinion is that new-to-Portland people should have to wait six months before even applying to charter schools. Families that have been in Portland, helping build it's economy should have priority. Too many people moving in, taking jobs we desperately need, hiking rents, clogging our highways etc make it very difficult for local families to live in the city WE built. Wait in line.

How rude of you. I'm sure the OP has been paying her taxes elsewhere and building that economy and I'm sure other families are moving to where she's coming from too and taking advantage of what shes been paying into. It's the cycle of life my friend. Humans have always been nomads. This is not YOUR city, nor YOUR state. This is our country and our planet, get over it. Not happy... then move out!

[oregonwoodsmoke]

Gosh, and the incomers wonder where the resentment comes from.

[Sondeera]

Wow, how disheartening to see such hatred. Get over yourself. You don't live in a gilded Mecca. It's just Portland. It's a lovely place, and yeah gentrification can be awful to live through, but people are going to come whether you like it or not.

Everyone deserves access to the public schools, regardless of whether they've lived there for a day or a decade. That's part of being "public." However, I understand and stand behind the PPS policy of not allowing someone to sign up for the lottery until after moving. It makes sense. Until someone is there, they're not a resident. Services are for residents.

OP - have you considered moving into the actual residential boundary for the Mandarin Immersion programs?

[pdxMIKEpdx]

How rude of you. Not happy... then move out!

Gosh, and the incomers wonder where the resentment comes from.

Wow, how disheartening to see such hatred.

You guys just remember there are many sides to every story.

That is most likely a troll post (and you fell for it), but you guys are not even trying to understand where that poster may be coming from before shouting him down.
There is a tiny kernel of truth in what he is saying.

Do a forum search on Oregonian's opinions of outsiders. It's nothing new.
Some natives complain, some newcomers shout them down.
It's the "cycle of life" my friend...
Get over it.

Most true native Oregonians that feel that way have long since learned to keep their mouth shut about it.
But it comes out in other ways.

For the record, I am a native Oregonian, born and raised in Portland.
I was not happy there anymore, and I did move out.

[Sondeera]

Hey, I live in Southern California, I understand why that person might be feeling that way. We have seen plenty, plenty, plenty of gentrification and people flocking by the dozens.

I have every right to feel disheartened. It's a terrible frame of mind to be suspicious and hateful towards outsiders. And, honestly, it hurts the haters more.

[pdxMIKEpdx]

Well,,, Don't get me wrong. I am not pissed at anybody.

Personally, I knew Oregon as it was (and I am speaking mainly on the "outdoorsman" side of things) and cry about about what Oregon has become everyday.

I am pushing the oblique side of sixty or seventy or something, so consider me ancient, and not in touch.
(Just fooling, I know what's going on)

But I realize you can't stop progress.
Manifest destiny and all that....

Portland, really, I could care less about.
Portland is for Portlanders, no matter where they come from.
It's the city that "Portlanders" want to make it.
Enough said.
It isn't for everybody, and that includes people like me.

Sorry to say, the animosity does exist, even though you will probably never experience it personally.
It's probably because everybody that you will meet in your age group is from somewhere else..........
True Oregonians are too polite, and fall back on the northwestern trait of being passive-aggressive, which will make you wonder if it's you or them.
Don't get paranoid!

(BTW, I used a lot of smileys to indicate my ambivalance, detached interest and lack of any personal power to change things regarding this matter)