Glenn's competence to comment on Philadelphia public education is roughly
that of his dog. I love dogs myself, but for Pete's sake: woof! Pay off
your trash tickets first, Glenn, and pick up your dogs' poop; only
thereafter should you advise the rest of us how to educate our children.
I'd like to thank you Mr. West. No matter how hard I try to explain the
problems with civic associations, I cant make things crystal clear. I try
to explain how the problems with the organizations too often attract
mean-spirited bullies as their leaders. I try to explain how the
bullies/leaders are capable of almost anything. But people are often
skeptical, and they have a hard time believing that "neighborhood leaders"
will consistently use their power to bully and act like spoiled brats.
Then you, a long time President of Friends of Clark Park and UCD flunky,
poops on the public listserv!
Thank you Mr. President, thank you. You should consider running for SHCA or
UCHS Prez. You've got the right stuff!
A leftist jackass aka the wanker
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "univcity" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: [UC] PW article, catchment and real estate
Two useful facts:
1) The boundaries of the Penn Alexander School were drawn by the School
District of Philadelphia. They are deeply integrated into a longstanding
bureaucratic structure that no childless dogwalker can comprehend. Glenn's
competence to comment on Philadelphia public education is roughly that of
his dog. I love dogs myself, but for Pete's sake: woof! Pay off your trash
tickets first, Glenn, and pick up your dogs' poop; only thereafter should
you advise the rest of us how to educate our children.
2) Ray's interesting map overlays something that does not exist and
probably never will -- the putative Spruce Hill Historic District --
with something that has long existed -- the catchment area of the Penn
Alexander neighborhood school.
Ray's map demonstrates that any one neighborhood map tends to overlap any
other map of the same neighborhood. Paranoids love this sort of
geometrical toy, because they can use it to prove the conspiracy theories
that get their blood pumping.
However, there is NO EVIDENCE that housing values have run up inside the
PAS catchment area 1% more than they have in Cedar Park, Powelton Village,
Fairmount, Francisville, Ludlow, South Kensington, Fishtown, Port
Richmond, Queen Village, Bella Vista, Grays Ferry and West Shore. I'm open
to reading any such evidence. But one thing is sure: a commentator who
will not stray from his Locust Walk cubicle will never learn the facts of
Philadelphia real estate.
Until we read cross-neighborhood comparisons between University City and
comparable neighborhoods, UC-list seems doomed to be smothered in the
polemical ruminations of obsolete New-Left jackasses who apparently can't
locate the rest of the city even with the aid of MapQuest. Personally, I'd
rather read about the real neighborhood we all live in today. Let's move
past this bogus "gentrification" hooey, and talk about a city that is
suffering because too many of its residents are poor people while too few
are middle-class or prosperous people. How can we Philadelphians make
Philadelphia's class demographics look more like those of America as a
whole? Obviously, all Philadelphians need this to happen.
But poor Philadelphians need it most. Middle-class and wealthy folks don't
"need" the inner city; they've shown they can live outside it and without
it. It is chiefly the poor who need to live within a taxing body that
includes the non-poor.
-- Tony West
UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN wrote:
Glenn wrote:
Philadelphia Weekly has a short interesting article (a
snapshot) about the confluence of education, real estate and
gentrification issues here in our upscale village.
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/articles/17058/news
In this short piece, it corroborates a point that was
widely discussed here. The description captures how the Penn
catchment area was drawn around the potential real estate
value of housing stock. The lines aren't drawn logically
around neighborhoods or existing residents, but instead are
obviously based on real estate value projections.
haha here's another 'snapshot':
http://tinyurl.com/3bgtk
..................
UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN
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