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<p>This statement is total garbage. Migrants often represent the best and brightest of their communities, the ones who have imagination and guts.</p>
<p>The regional prejudice is rank. What about the “northern trash” who move to Florida? or the “midwestern trash” who move to Texas?</p>
<p>Thank you Mark Zuckerberg for your generosity. It might be easy for some to make money, but not that easy to give it out. Especially, donating to a project which your visible personal gain is almost zero, but you did it anyways.
I’m sure more kids, now or in the future will appreciate your gift.
Thank you and keep-up the GOOD-WORK…</p>
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<p>I think both of the statements are total garbage.</p>
<p>There is always the side that says they are the worse and the other side that says they are the best.</p>
<p>Can you clarify the point you’re making? I’m not taking sides.</p>
<p>Oh come on. “Scholars and craftsmen”? The vast majority of us are descended from illiterate peasants. That doesn’t mean that we’re all doomed, doomed. The present, the economic incentives and demands before us, matter as much as the past of our ancestors.</p>
<p>There is a relatively new and growing white underclass whose ancestors were those very same small farmers and craftsmen who had to use their wits to survive. Their great-grandchildren are spending their days cooking meth and playing video games. </p>
<p>I don’t disagree about the cronyism and familial dysfunction that dog some school systems in NJ. It’s the diagnosis of the problem’s origins as some kind of long-term historical outcome related to migration that I disagree with.</p>
<p>Inner city schools have been terrible since 1) white/middle-class flight and 2) the institution of the legal inability to expel students for misbehavior. Not all NJ schools are inner city schools. NJ has really good public schools for the most part. Newark schools don’t represent the norm. As an NJ resident and taxpayer, I am glad that NJ supports its schools. I don’t want to live in a state like Florida with crummy K-12 public schools. I am actually a political conservative, but public schools are one area where I have no problem whatsoever with the state raising revenue and spending it. I want quality teachers and nice facilities. High-quality K-12 public education cannot be had on the cheap. I have relatives who live in Southern states who have to sent their children to private or parochial schools to get the curriculum and services the average middle-class NJ resident takes for granted.</p>
<p>As Einstein never said, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result”.</p>
<p>It would be a great experiment if Mr. Zuckerberg could try again.</p>
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<p>They certainly can’t do worse than what is happening today.</p>
<p>^ Can you stop with the “black and white trash”? You say you work with school districts? I wouldn’t want you anywhere NEAR my kids.</p>
<p>@dm2017 really, stops using “trash”, it’s hurting your argument and it comes across as insulting. Try “dysfunctional families” or some such thing. It’s more descriptive and folks are more likely to listen to your points (some good) and not focus on the word “trash”. </p>
<p>In Newark’s case, many of the inner city transplants from the south came from very hard working families (it was the only way to survive), but once they got to Newark, the jobs started to disappear, and then the issues with crime and drugs cripple these communities. (this was pointed out in the article)</p>
<p>@NJSue Public Schools in Florida are much like NJ, in that we have some very high performing schools, and some very poor schools. Our poor schools are more likely to be rural, while NJ’s are inner city. Saying you don’t want to live in Florida due to the schools, is like saying you don’t want to live in NJ due to the crime (or, property tax!). </p>
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<p>re Prop 13…I think older folks can do a one-time move and still get a lower tax. this is to help move empty-nesters out of big family homes.</p>
<p>I’ll see if I can find the details. My parents never used it because they wanted to keep their big family home …and their prop 13 taxes were about 600 a year. But, I do know older folks who did use that option.</p>
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<p>sounds good, but really, many retirees cant afford 5k per year in prop taxes. most retired couples have incomes of less than 50k…they cant be spending 10% or more of their limited dollars on property taxes. (and $10k-20k in property taxes is INSANE unless you are very affluent and living in a mini-mansion)</p>