[quote=njtosd]BG – I searched this thread and no one ever said anything about residents being “of color.” From what I can tell you are the only one to use that phrase.[/quote]
The students that that are being complained about by Piggs on this thread as being “free lunchers” in an “affluent community” such as LJ aren’t “residents” (of LJ). They are from other areas of the City where the schools are subject to voluntary transfers-out of students living in their respective attendance areas by their parents in accordance with the NCLB Act.
Actually, only a portion of SDUSD VEEP/CHOICE, etc students could be construed to be “of color,” the same as a portion of students who reside in the attendance area of SDUSD schools situated in LJ.
btw, an individual of “Hispanic origin” is not actually “of color.” They are considered to be of the Caucasian race by the US Census Bureau and are self-identified as “White” on the census:
I was referring to the comments made by Piggs that because a portion of these “nonresident students” at LJHS qualified for “free or reduced-price lunches,” they must somehow be inferior in intelligence or test scores to resident-students. Actually, nothing could be further from the truth.
From a few posts on this thread, I got the impression that some Piggs were “worried” about their children attending school with “disadvantaged kids” and that is why they didn’t/wouldn’t choose LJ to buy into in favor of more northern tract developments in SD County which they perceived to be “less disadvantaged.” As we all know, areas like 4S Ranch along that “coveted 56 corridor” (aka Foreclosure Ranch) were at the epicenter of the housing bust in SD County (read: inhabited by original buyer-families who were too insolvent to keep up the mortgage on their homes) and too stupid and/or unqualified to obtain a non-“exotic” (read: “non-subprime”) purchase-money mortgage.
NO AREA is exempt from the threat of rampant foreclosure unless it has a large population of free-and-clear owners (ex. La Jolla SFR stock). Surprisingly (for many, I’m sure), 92113 (where the Lincoln High VEEP cluster with attendance rights to LJ schools is located) has a very high degree of free-and-clear homeowners.
