Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Public school enrollment is so low in Seattle that the district might close 20 elementaries" video.

When I was a kid I spent the first seven years of my education in a parochial school. Then I went into the public school system and was shocked when I was handed textbooks that looked like what I was issued in fourth grade. I didn't catch up to where I was when I left the Catholic school until I got to 10th grade, and by then, the school I attended passed you along if you simply had the guts to show up to that war zone. That was close to 50-years ago. Now people lament about not even having those p*ss-poor standards. As for telling people they don't have to stick around, that happened in my neck of the woods too. Detroit elected its first black mayor, coleman young, and after that race hustler got elected he told all the white people who didn't like things like cross district bussing, high property taxes, and rising crime that if they didn't want to hang around they could all hit 8-Mile, the dividing line between the city and the suburbs. Guess what, when you let people know you know you don't want em around they tend to take you at your word. The neighborhoods fell apart within five years and the city never has recovered. It still has the highest percentage of people living in the surrounding suburbs than the hub city in the nation. Detroit, a city that was #1 in the nation in wealth creation in 1950, one of the richest cities in the world, is now a cautionary tale. If you tell your earners to take a hike they will leave and when they do they take all the actual money with them. The government cheese only goes so far. Personally I hope Seattle goes to hell-in-handbasket because it is what they have said they wanted for decades. Be careful what you wish for Dorothy.
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