Muda69

I know numerous families within the Frankfort geographical government school district where this is a fact. Why would the Western Boone geographical government school district be any different?

You are 'upscale' when compared to Frankfort. The SES data confirms it.

Vancouver School Board Is Eliminating Honors Programs To Achieve 'Equity' https://reason.com/2021/06/21/vancouver-school-board-equity-honors-courses/ A gigantic race to the bottom, courtesy of the government school hegenomy.

Yes, interesting to see that in a small town surrounded by cornfields. But then again many of these Hispanic families have roots in Frankfort going back decades, their ancestors working as migrant field hands on surrounding farms then deciding to stay instead of heading back to Mexico. Logansport has a similar demographic.

Agreed. Here is a contrasting school corporation in the same athletic conference as Western Boone: https://inview.doe.in.gov/corporations/1011700000/population

If those young teenage kids were really needed on the farm to support their families they wouldn't be playing football. Just like those poor Frankfort families where children have to work in order put food on the table. While I did not live on a farm I did grow up in rural southern Miami county. As such I did my fair share of baling hay, detasseling corn, picking rocks up out of fields, etc. It was decent money for a young teenager who didn't yet have a car and could ride his bike to local farms and fields. And still the local Amish youth could outwork the non-Amish youth, living on a farm or not, by a country mile.

Then please accurately explain the point to a non-Western Boone resident like myself. Yes. Wealthy farmers: https://inview.doe.in.gov/corporations/1006150000/population

Ahh, so youth who bale hay before and after football practice are better than those who don't. Got it. Where are the Amish school football dynasties?

Medium prices for tractors and other major farm machinery are in the 10's to 100's of thousands of dollars. Nice try. It's so secret the Western Boone geographical area is full of wealthy farmers. And exactly what "narrative" is that? Go ahead, spit it out.

Stookey's has a great tenderloin sandwich and killer onion rings.

So lets say rural school X loses 15% of it's student body over a 5 year period, with continued population declines expected for at least the next decade. Having it taxpayer funded at almost the exact same amount prior to these enrollment loses is asinine. The taxpayer money should follow the student, end of story. Let these small rural schools sink or swim on their own merits (*cough* Clinton Central *cough*).

Hey, Dover has a Gas Station. At least it used to the last time I drove through there................

Should Nazis Be Allowed To Speak? https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/should-nazis-be-allowed-to-speak/ Agreed.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/11/what-happens-when-hedge-funds-buy-up-neighborhoods/ Congress’s Profligacy Endangers Americans’ Futures This is a direct consequence of the Fed printing so much money and long encouraging debt by keeping interest rates so low for so long that investors are looking for better assets. Our government has long privileged debt over savings in large part because that makes it easier for the government to deficit spend, making debt less costly to Congress. So normal people essentially get punished for saving because Congress won’t stop spending. Since the government quietly taxes away your savings through inflation, people and institutions who want to put money away for future use, or just grow their assets, are forced into riskier and more distortive behavior. Thus mega-dollar money asset managers and private equity firms are snapping up millions of homes at inflated prices because government profligacy has made it harder for them to secure a yield. “Limited housing supply, low rates, a global reach for yield, and what we’re calling the institutionalization of real-estate investors has set the stage for another speculative investor-driven home price bubble,” the Journal quotes from a market analysis. The paper later notes the similarities to the 2008 housing market crash caused by government-forced subprime lending that “wiped out $11 trillion in U.S. household wealth and brought the global financial system to the brink of collapse.” More Renters Mean Worse Neighborhoods This government-caused financial disaster waiting to happen won’t only have financial effects. It will have social effects. One is causing fewer people to be homeowners and effectively taking away wealth from those who do manage to buy a home but at a government-bubbled price. Giant asset management firms driving up home prices forces more people to rent who would own if the prices weren’t so inflated. It also increases the ratio of renters to owners. In addition, government rules require those who own numerous properties to reserve a percentage for federally subsidized low-income renters, thereby forcibly injecting into communities people whose behavior generally is far worse than those of their neighbors, since nowadays poverty and antisocial behavior is correlated in the United States. When we moved into our first house, a new neighbor asked whether we were renters or owners. At the time, I thought it was an odd question. A decade later, it makes perfect sense. The neighbors who rent are on average worse neighbors. They tend their yards and homes much less. They make more noise. They get the police called to their homes more often, for everything from domestic violence to raucous parties to drug busts to leaving their car parked in the street in the way of everyone else. In places with higher costs of living, renters may have higher average incomes than in my city, mitigating some of these effects. But not most or even all. Even middle-class and college-educated neighbors who rent, who aren’t usually getting the police called in the middle of the night, do a poorer job with things like yard upkeep. It’s only natural. One good friend used to boast of preferring renting to owning in Chicago, in large part because every repair or upkeep issue at his place was “not my problem.” That kind of attitude may make sense to an individual, but it is selfish to neighbors, who have to look at poorly tended yards and face depreciating home values because owning cultivates qualitatively different — and far preferable — behaviors than renting. Owning makes people take responsibility and feel more investment in their community. Renters are less-invested and more easily detached. When more money and commitment are on the line, in the aggregate people will behave better. So this entire financial dynamic also ruins more people’s quality of life and degrades social standards for more people. Destroying People’s Peace Is a Legit Problem As every real estate agent knows, quality of life is crucial to the health of community life. When one guy on your street honks his horn every morning at 6 a.m. to get his carpool to come outside, it may not be criminal but it sure is a problem. When a neighbor blows up firecrackers until midnight every night for the two weeks surrounding the Fourth of July, it’s the same. The rent-subsidized house on my street is a merry-go-round of drunks, meth heads, unmarried couples who fight, and people who strew trash around the yard that blows all over the neighborhood. Because they tend to be lower-income people, or people who don’t have the self-discipline to save up a down payment, renters are far more likely to do things like this. Their open rudeness also gives people permission to indulge in more, creating a vicious social cycle. Rude neighbors shouldn’t be allowed to endlessly impose their aggravated selfishness on everyone else. Where individual landlords and local real estate companies own most rental units, there are more ways to address such situations. You can look up their name in the local property records and call to complain. You and your neighbors can quietly organize to enforce every city ordinance on a problem neighbor that ultimately results in the renter or his slumlord moving on. You can lobby your city council to apply higher standards to landlords and neighborhood nuisances so problem people are more restrained. But if a giant transnational corporation owns a house, they won’t give two hoots about their negative effects on the places they live. For them, it’s just a numbers game, and like the renters they rent to they have close to zero stakes in the communities where they’re hoovering up homes. Reinforcing Poverty Behaviors Hurts the Poor Most All this drives people rich enough to buy their way out of rented-up neighborhoods more reason to do so, further stratifying society. That’s bad for everyone. For example, it’s because I live in a neighborhood with a greater variety of incomes instead of an upper-middle-class McMansion park that I saw and then mentioned to my city councilman that some of my neighbors can’t afford to keep their sidewalks in good shape. It came up because I’m the kind of person who might go to a city council meeting — an educated white-collar professional, the demographically most likely to be civically engaged. The councilman explained to me how to help them get that fixed at a low cost, and offered to refer all sidewalk cliffs I emailed him the addresses of to our city’s maintenance department for faster fixing. Win-win: My poor neighbors get nicer sidewalks, and so do I. But if my neighborhood increases in even low-level chaos beyond what I’m willing to take, I can afford to move, and that will be one more neighborhood with fewer socially conscientious middle-class people available to address the needs of their poor neighbors. The saturation of poverty behaviors is key. People who can afford to leave will put up with an occasional rude thing going on. They will not put up with constant or increased aggravation. Therefore policy makers at all levels should be pulling every prudent and responsible lever possible to help more people invest in their neighborhoods and improve them. One such lever is responsible home ownership people can achieve on fair terms, because that requires discipline that will benefit one’s life in multiple other areas. But if it’s unachievable even with consistent hard work and the ability to delay gratification for a reasonable time, why would people put forth that effort in the first place? And when they don’t, it matters to everyone. You Will Never Own Anything, and That’s Depressing Stratification creates downward spirals both economically and culturally. Instead, our society should seek to encourage upward cycles. That’s to the benefit of everyone, instead of harming most people while benefitting a few short-term. Here’s more of that Twitter thread suggesting other potential financial effects to Americans as a whole of hedge fund-owned neighborhoods. Blackrock is well known for its use of its massive financial power to elevate leftist social causes, including, as the tweeter noted, the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset” strategy. WEF also predicted in an infamous 2016 video, based on “input” from their Davos crowd, that by 2030 “You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy.” But when people “own nothing,” they are not happy. Refusing to take ownership is a refusal to take responsibility. In the beginning, that may seem carefree and glamorous, but in the long run, a refusal to take responsibility — whether that be refusing to commit to marriage, children, faith, a community, or to all of the above — actually makes people deeply unhappy. In responsibility is where people find happiness. Our government should stop making financial decisions that steal from all of us the ability to take responsibility for our own families, homes, and happiness. And, regardless of what our corrupt and feckless governments do, each of us must continue to pursue ownership of our own lives through every avenue possible. So if you can’t buy a home in one city, move to a cheaper one. If you can’t buy it now or want to pay as little of that inflation tax as possible, stuff your cash somewhere for now, wait for the market collapse, and buy then. Yet another housing bubble causing by government policies. Will it ever end? A young couple I know has taken the exact same stance as the last sentence in the article. They have given up on purchasing their first home for now and will patiently wait for the bubble to burst.

Please elaborate. That is one way to look at it, but without all the complications from traditional government and private insurance companies.

Public Schooling, Not Just Opportunist Right‐Wingers, Fuels the Critical Race Theory Fire: https://www.cato.org/blog/public-schooling-not-just-opportunist-right-wingers-fuels-critical-race-theory-fire

https://reason.com/2021/06/19/what-free-market-health-care-would-actually-look-like/ The wave of the future. I'm all in.

The department at my current employer is currenting employing a rotation model, where roughly half the department is in the office while the other half works from home. So this week I may be in the office M-W-F and work from home Tu-Th. Management has given no indication if and when they are going to end this rotation model.

Elwood is the same way. Quite the imagination....................

But what about a street named something like "Robert E. Lee Boulevard" or "Thomas Jefferson Way"? Surely those those need to be changed to "Biden Boulevard" or "Obama Way"? How about just "Street A" and "Street B"?

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/microagressions#how-to-avoid-them

I have posited much the same idea before here on the GID. And don't stop with school names. Cities, streets, etc. need all be renamed as well so as to not possibly cause a "microagression" against even one individual.

Virginia's Loudoun County to appeal court decision reinstating teacher who spoke out against gender policies: https://www.foxnews.com/us/lcps-appeal-tanner-cross-decision

So they don't move to the CG geographical district for the superior classroom education, but the superior football education and exposure. Got it.

There ought to be a state law that if an OMG! Athlete attending a government high school is recruited by a D1 government college/university in the same state then that OMG! Athlete is required to make an official visit. It is only fair due to the taxpayer resources expended to build/groom that OMG! Athlete at the high school level that same state taxpayer funded government college/university get first dibs.