Ya'll (EVERYBODY commenting on this issue) don't need to be so mean-
spirited. It's a turn-off.
-cm
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On May 27, 2008, at 11:39 PM, Anthony West wrote:
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
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UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN
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