Peak Millennial? Cities Can’t Assume a Continued Boost from the Young

Re:Peak Millennial? Cities Can’t Assume a Continued Boost fr... by rhino369 on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @02:59PM (#13474912)

Reintegration is a great plan for areas where a relatively few number of minorities live somewhat near middle income or better areas.

But in many major cities, the majority of children are already minorities. The white children who do live there are part of the upper middle class and their parents won't accept the downsides of re-integration. I see this in DC, parents either put their kids into private school, try to get a charter school, or leave the district for suburbia.

You could try to bus the kids to suburbia, but the logistics are tough. The suburban cities don't want it and fill fight it.

Desegregating the cities is the better option.

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Re:Peak Millennial? Cities Can’t Assume a Continued Boost fr... by Arizhel on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @04:08PM (#13475463)

>You could try to bus the kids to suburbia, but the logistics are tough.

Well that's pretty hard to do in DC because now you're talking about crossing state lines. DC is a federal district, totally separate from Maryland and Virginia where the suburbs are. That's a lot harder than just busing kids from one school to another in the same district within the same state.

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