I was called away to Japan on a business trip and am just catching up. Normally I would have let this thread die except for Dude's comment:
I see mithawk and Bostonian have got their polititroll hats on today.
Discrimination makes me upset. If that counts as being a polititroll, then sign me up for a leadership position. Why doesn't discrimination make you upset? Never mind, on second thought, I am really not interested in your smug answers.
As for mithawk, I particularly enjoyed the bit about Stuyvesant being available to families who can't afford to live in an outrageously expensive city like, for example, New York City.
Enjoy your false reality.
The reality of NYC is that the majority of people are middle to lower class and some of them strive for good schools. The fact that the same income would be middle class in a different city is rather beside the point. First, people are resistant to moving, and second, the same job (e.g. laundromat owner, bus driver) might not be middle in another city due to lower pay.
