OK, now FOT, you are reposting old threads that were already recently reposted, although I can never get enough of that one. Seriously, what’s your story? Multiple login? Longtime lurker? Newbie/
Biff, are you ceding soem of your presidential duties to FOT?
cmu,
you are missing the point altogether.
first off, you treat the classes as a set population.
they obviously aren’t.
second, you assume no overall improvement in standard of living which is again false.
you tie your assumptions to a numerical indicator of rich and poor without regard for the intrinsic meaning.
at best because of a preconceived notion of what wealthy means, at worst because of a need to foster discord between members of our society in order to advance political ideology.
In all models, over half of households should be considered working or lower class but in my (admittedly limited) experience, most people want to put themselves into the middle or upper classes.
your point about the schools not getting better is false. objective studies have shown a decreased gap in learning between black and white students over the past few years.This is not a result of “teaching to test” as critics would say, but a fundamental change in the core curriculum which emphasizes early reading goals and math goals. That gap that in the past was often written off as insurmountable has been decreasing. We have seen more accountablilty from schools as well.
how do I know it works?
My son was reading before finishing kindergarden. I didn’t even start till 1st grade(yes I went to public schools in NYC).
I thought we settled this nonsense. Vote Snappy for Mayor and all your problems will be solved! Hola losers 🙂
OK, now FOT, you are reposting old threads that were already recently reposted, although I can never get enough of that one. Seriously, what’s your story? Multiple login? Longtime lurker? Newbie/
Biff, are you ceding soem of your presidential duties to FOT?
Stop talking about me. Jesus.
[wink]
FOT, that was one of the BEST posts ever. I think I fell a little more in love with Snarky that day, sigh!
cmu,
you are missing the point altogether.
first off, you treat the classes as a set population.
they obviously aren’t.
second, you assume no overall improvement in standard of living which is again false.
you tie your assumptions to a numerical indicator of rich and poor without regard for the intrinsic meaning.
at best because of a preconceived notion of what wealthy means, at worst because of a need to foster discord between members of our society in order to advance political ideology.
thanks Cobby.
What do you think of these academic models?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_middle_class#Academic_models
In all models, over half of households should be considered working or lower class but in my (admittedly limited) experience, most people want to put themselves into the middle or upper classes.
quote:
“If you want to live on a commune, go find one.”
LOL, sadly, even the communes in brooklyn youll need to be super rich to get into. i.e. do a search on all the Co-housing threads hahahah
*rob*
[scooting over to go sit next to cmu, ah, comfy now.]
BrooklynisHome,
your point about the schools not getting better is false. objective studies have shown a decreased gap in learning between black and white students over the past few years.This is not a result of “teaching to test” as critics would say, but a fundamental change in the core curriculum which emphasizes early reading goals and math goals. That gap that in the past was often written off as insurmountable has been decreasing. We have seen more accountablilty from schools as well.
how do I know it works?
My son was reading before finishing kindergarden. I didn’t even start till 1st grade(yes I went to public schools in NYC).