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[pastorlenny.livejournal.com]

In what ways are poor people oppressed?

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[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Also, no law enforcement. I couldn't get an ambulance, taxi, pizza, or a cop on the telephone when I lived in Hunters Point, which is a poor area in San Francisco. I don't think people in those Russian Hill mansions had any trouble.

I didn't have a nice green park with grass and slides. We had concrete glass ridden places to play and abandoned lots with "WARNING DIOXIN" signs. Junkies and hustlers orbiting the 20 foot rusty fences.

I didn't have a chemistry class in all of school. Never once. I knew wealthier kids who did, hell I heard of one school that had a radio station. Wasn't that because I wasn't wealthy?

Is having less being oppressed?

[dwer.livejournal.com]

I didn't have a chemistry class in all of school. Never once. I knew wealthier kids who did, hell I heard of one school that had a radio station. Wasn't that because I wasn't wealthy?

Not only because you weren't wealthy, but because the poor are concentrated into specific areas, and schools are funded by the value of the local area in property taxes.

[pattyoplenty.livejournal.com]

You know what is great though, Gov Christie in NJ signed something recently that students could now attend anything public school within 20 miles of their choice with buses. The only catch is the school they want to attend can not be at maximum capacity. I think that is a great idea and once the inner city kids spread out into some of the better schools, it will give them the same chance everyone else has for a better education. Now that makes sense to me.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

I think that's not a bad idea. It must be managed somehow, to address busing issues if nothing else.

That being said, if a kid in Harlem wanted to go to a school in the Bronx, no bus could get them there in time.

[pattyoplenty.livejournal.com]

Managing is going to be tricky, no doubt. As far as time on the actual bus rides, my kids school takes in a lot of areas and some of her friends are no lie on the bus for over an hour. These kids leave their houses between 6-6:30 every morning. It sucks, but it's worth it.