looks like west mifflin and east allaghany schools

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@Bravada 442

I love how someone who doesn’t live in the district and doesn’t have kids is going to tell someone else who lives in the district and had kids what is right and wrong.

And also, I didn’t see 77redneck say a damn word about the color of these kids skin. Not a damn word. I wouldn’t want kids from Duquesne just like I wouldn’t want kids from Millvale just like I wouldn’t want kids from wherever else is ghetto.

I grew up in millvale…I gre wup in sharpsburg, I also tutored college physics…with a shaler diploma.

@77rednecktruck

You can take the kid out of the ghetto, but you can’t take the ghetto out of the kid, they grew up in a shitty neighborhood and need to stay there and leave the good neighborhoods alone.

no offense, but fuck you if you think thats even close to being true! My house was the drug ring, christ, I was an acid baby and my parents were seniors in high school…SHALER High to be excact! Ive seen every drug, ive seen nothing but empty bottles in the garbage…ive been beat, kicked, dropped off on a door step…so are you trying to tell me that I should have stayed a rat because thats where I belong?

I am a college grad…my lil brother is a mech for bmw…my lil sister is off to Toledo Univ. with highest honors…all because we moved from sharpsburg to shaler. a “ghetto” to a “suburb”

Try me again on that one.

@fah_quad

Man can some people generalize. Where some get their statistics from is beyond me. Especially when they probably have no clue about the district other than maybe getting lost in it trying to follow a Kennywood sign that someone turned to point the wrong way.
First off, there are only like 200 kids in Duquesne’s entire high school. That is hundreds less than just my graduating class. Split up those 200, not all of which would even actually go to school… and you don’t really have that big of an effect on anything.
Their tax base sucks. They don’t have the money to provide a good education for their kids. They deserve a good education. Whether that is the fault of their parents or not, they deserve the chance. Unless you grew up in that area or that background, you can’t assume anything about them or their families. It is always the people who “have” who assume the “have nots” are taking advantage of the system. Join the have nots for a while and realize that isn’t the majority some believe.
They can get a good education at West Mifflin. Not to mention parts of West Mifflin are every bit as bad, poor, and “ghetto” as Duquesne. EA, too. Color doesn’t matter; some “white” parts of both districts are just as bad as Duquesne. And I wouldn’t count EA as that great of a district, either. Certainly not one that should be thumbing their noses at Duquesne kids.
I went to Langley (city school) for two years. My mom was a single parent on welfare and we knew about every possible way to make a bag of oodles of noodles taste good (adding hot dogs, tuna, etc.), and how to make the one bag feed 3 people. Grew up in a racially mixed project where color didn’t matter. Lack of money and usually the lack of a father bonded most of us together.
My last two years were at NA after my mother remarried and we were singing like the friggen “Jeffersons”… movin’ on up… to the sky…
Kids are kids. NA kids did different drugs because they could afford them. But they did them, just the same. NA had kids who would excel. So did Langley. NA had kids who are now in jail. So did Langley.
The big difference to me is that the kids from Langley learned to accept and deal when placed in bad situations or around people not like them, because they were exposed to it all their lives. Kids from NA were generally not accepting of those unlike them, and also had very incorrect ideas of what being “black” or “poor” was like. And they didn’t deal well when situations turned to shit. Because they were used to the shit being cleaned up by someone else, usually their parents.
I agree with everything Cutty has said.
In addition, I believe many have blinders on to think that just moving your kid to a different district is going to keep them from growing up to be an asshole. Teach them to succeed, and they will, regardless of what district they may attend. Too many parents send their kids to school thinking the school should be the babysitter and the school should be the one who teaches their kids everything that my generation learned from their parents.
Do more research and talk to some of the kids from the actual districts before you jump on the generalization bandwagon and assume that a place like Duquesne is nothing but problems, and life in the rich white suburbs is absolutely grand. They all have the same problems; the suburban districts are just better at covering it up. Highest incidence of heroin problems… “ranked” suburban rich district. Highest incidence of teen pregnancy… “ranked” suburban rich district. None of these is West Mifflin, EA, or Duquesne.
Kudos to WM for taking the kids. Bitch slap to EA for thinking they are any better and wanting to sue the state over it.

… for a reality check please read above.