looks like west mifflin and east allaghany schools

[BlkP42E]

just wow

[wrayzor]

@BlkP42E

just wow

:stupid:

[OLDS_ROCKETMAN]

to tell you the truth, my city neighborhood is know for not having black and not liking black. i grew up without a single black kid in my school and then central was only about 12%. so i made it a good portion of my life not around blacks. went to CCAC. met my now best friend. he was a gangster, from the hill, sold weed cause thats all he knew. I knew he was a good person thou. He’s now a home owner, an A tech for firestone, has a line of credit, a father. All it takes is for one person to give you a chance to turn ur shit around. I helped steer him right and he helped balance my view of the world and the people in this country. I’ve been in the hood with him, sceen some shit i never thought i’d see. been in the projects. A lot of those gang bangers got hearts but they gotta do what they do before the next guy with out a heart blows them away. you give them a chance while they are young, get em out the hood, let them make friends with people that don’t wanna take thier shit and try and smoe them then maybe they see how the world outside the concrete jungle is.

[fah_quad]

@Cutty

you give them a chance while they are young, get em out the hood, let them make friends with people that don’t wanna take thier shit and try and smoe them then maybe they see how the world outside the concrete jungle is.

That’s cool, just not around my kids… [/sarcasm]
In reality, I totally agree with you.

[VictorSmalls]

@Cutty

sorry i didn’t hear you i was busy reading about all the central grads that run this city. lookat it this way, when ur suburban kid goes nuts and shoot up the school because someone made fun of him you can get central grad john elash to get him off the hook… unless central grad stephen zapala has a good case… but then central grad judge jeffery manning could dissmiss the charges all together. and maybe he could go on to work for federated investors…of course central grads got that one covered too. hell why not stop by aiellos… you know all about them don’t u eric…

Look at everything you have forward to Cutty

And what have you accomplished?

[spektator]

@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.

[OLDS_ROCKETMAN]

@VictorSmalls

Look at everything you have forward to Cutty

And what have you accomplished?

i have a job that i have been in for 7 years. doesn’t pay how i’d like but i have a MLB pension as of this past june, i have mutal funds, i have all the toys i can handle. i think i owe a great bit of gratitude to central catholic for what i have… for two reasons… i had detention twice in high school and had to write a sentece on both occasions 100 times. “every private citizen has a public responsibility” and " people tend to become what you tell them they are" those two phrases i’ve tries to make a part of my life. I’m not out for myself… thats clear in the way my friends view me. I’d give away my last penny if someone needed it. what people think of me say about me, is totally different than what the truth is. so what have i accomplished… what ever you wanna think

[spektator]

@Cutty

i have a job that i have been in for 7 years. doesn’t pay how i’d like but i have a MLB pension as of this past june, i have mutal funds, i have all the toys i can handle. i think i owe a great bit of gratitude to central catholic for what i have… for two reasons… i had detention twice in high school and had to write a sentece on both occasions 100 times. “every private citizen has a public responsibility” and " people tend to become what you tell them they are" those two phrases i’ve tries to make a part of my life. I’m not out for myself… thats clear in the way my friends view me. I’d give away my last penny if someone needed it. what people think of me say about me, is totally different than what the truth is. so what have i accomplished… what ever you wanna think

you have accomplished more than you think…money doesnt make you rich, its what you have in your life that does.

I have a college degree and choose not to use it.
I have 3 jobs bc I like to keep busy.
I have no money bc I choose to spend it than try to take it with me.
I have a roof, a vehicle, and a loving family…all i need in life.

" people tend to become what you tell them they are"- this is what starts ignorance.

Learn from it.

[Turbo_Silverado]

pittspeed.com, or pittpolitics.com ???

[fah_quad]

@Cutty

you give them a chance while they are young, get em out the hood, let them make friends with people that don’t wanna take thier shit and try and smoe them then maybe they see how the world outside the concrete jungle is.

That’s cool, just not around my kids… [/sarcasm]
In reality, I totally agree with you.

[77rednecktruck]

@Cutty

oh you are an expert in statistics of how many low income people commit crimes? where are the numbers that support ur 99%?

like bethel oark, baldwin, and other places aren’t full of wanna be’s, coke heads, pill poppers. The ghetto is in ur areas already, some of you are too blind to see it.

the schools you mentioned are 11ty billion times better than duquesne and other schools like that

my stats are merely a numerical representation of “a vast majority”, it is not or should not be a concrete number.

[xlogic]

@spektator

who in the hell are any of you to talk about how many people in the “ghetto” want out???

When was the last time you went there and spoke to them?

Exactly…

looks like cutty and I are the only ones in that 1% ratio.

i live in the ghetto…so you can count me in that 1%

[77rednecktruck]

@spektator

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.

congrats to you

now take every person who grew up in your neighborhood with you and let me know how they turned out. I am sure a few of them turned their life around, but I bet a bigger number didn’t.

[xlogic]

@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.

didn’t catch you saying that earlier…but honestly…i have lived in the ghetto my entire life…i’m on my way out…and for a young black male living in the ghetto…the ghetto was never in me. Just because you were deprived does not mean you have to act like it and be some god damn ghetto ass charity case. Change the way you think because we all have to live together whether you like it or not

[xlogic]

@77rednecktruck

congrats to you

i have one question for you…how do you change the world? one small act of kindness at a time…it’s a lot easier to spread death and opression than it is to spread smiles and helping hands. People are lazy and don’t want to do shit to help others…do you have kids?

[VictorSmalls]

@Cutty

i have a job that i have been in for 7 years. doesn’t pay how i’d like but i have a MLB pension as of this past june, i have mutal funds, i have all the toys i can handle. i think i owe a great bit of gratitude to central catholic for what i have… for two reasons… i had detention twice in high school and had to write a sentece on both occasions 100 times. “every private citizen has a public responsibility” and " people tend to become what you tell them they are" those two phrases i’ve tries to make a part of my life. I’m not out for myself… thats clear in the way my friends view me. I’d give away my last penny if someone needed it. what people think of me say about me, is totally different than what the truth is. so what have i accomplished… what ever you wanna think

I would love to fight with you till the bitter end but…

I can’t argue with your response. I just love trying to get a rise out of you

Well put

[BlkP42E]

i just read this and all i have to say is holy fucking emo

[Turbo_Silverado]

@BlkP42E

i just read this and all i have to say is holy fucking emo

u read all of it? i got to post like 10 and was like wtf

[spektator]

@77rednecktruck

congrats to you

now take every person who grew up in your neighborhood with you and let me know how they turned out. I am sure a few of them turned their life around, but I bet a bigger number didn’t.

now take my graduating class at Shaler…and create the same spectrum…bet you get the same results!

i dont know what your really worried about anyway…those kids getting tranfered are going to be so afraid of your ignorance and hate, they probably wont make it the 2nd week…and those that do are the strongest. To have to deal with that type of move…then deal with a bunch of brown nose whiney brats who are taught to hate those “under” you, I congratulate them. And I hope that one of them becomes the top honor student and steps on your “kids” (in general) on the way up.

You obviously have no idea what its like to live in poverty…I actually feel bad for you.

[spektator]

So I was reading about the lady using her baby as a weapon…and stumbled onto this…
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07192/800808-298.stm