York City

[Capt Quahog]

You know . . . There is at least one (or perhaps still two) Gun Stores in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, behind the old Police Headquarters building off of Grand Street. When last in there late last year, the place was well stocked with all sorts of firearms and there were a number of what appeared to be customers within. A person needs to be buzzed in after being checked out by somebody inside. Always find it interesting that a person can simply walk into a store in New York City and buy MACE and PEPPER SPRAY over the counter. While in my native Boston, Massholeachusetts, you need a License to Carry Firearms for the same purchase. When in New York City down on the Bowery to get some noodles at One Hung Low's Chinese eatery, I try to stop by the Gun Store to fetch a supply of non-Lethal stuff for my wife and the other nurses where she works. Yes, there are people will guns (apparently legally owner and carried) in New York City.

Oooooooooops . . . Thought you were taking about " New York City" ? Oh well, . . . . Never Mind!

[tes151]

Originally Posted by 87th PVI

Unfortunately this is true to some degree.
I personally was told by one person that they knew of someone who wrote in Steve because he was the only white candidate, but moreso I heard people saying that they were voting for her because she was either AA, female or both.
Someone actually said that Steve's being a candidate was his attempt to hold back progress.
I personally heard Bracey state in a bragging tone that she had the "black vote"
I also heard the statement made that there would be trouble errupting if Steve were to win. (eluding to another race riot)

Why can't people be color blind & just look at the qualifications?
The race riots in York may have been something like 40 years ago, but obviously many people have not moved on or grown & that tells me that sort of thing could still be just a heartbeat away from happening again.
Hope I'm wrong.


PS since we're on the subject of race... does anyone else think it's really wierd that most AA's are Democrats? If one looks at history, the emmancipation proclamation was passed by a Republican. During the 19th century, the Dems were the pro slavery party & the abolitionists were the Republicans. What was it that made African Americans embrace the Democratic party instead of the Republican party?

Social programs that allowed the poorest of the population to become professional victims. They now have no incentive to try and help themselves.

[KMcL]

Originally Posted by 87th PVI

Sad, very sad

We provide a public education system to these young people at no cost to them other than the investment of their time and efforts to take advantage of the opportunity & this is the result of our efforts & tax dollars:

Wow... that's really sad.

[87th PVI]

I'd like to know what % that is of the total student body of each high school, & if the numbers are increasing or if it is a steady percentage each year.

When I was in YHS, there were 352 students in my class. Multiply that by 4 & you get 1408 (but that doesn't include factoring in the extra freshmen that will transfer to Vo Tech for their last three years.)

If 1411 students drop out over 10 years that means there is an avg of 141 students per year, or (using the 1408 number as total students) 9.98% of the school's student body from that school each year.

When I went to orientation at Penn State, they said that 33% of us would drop out. I remember thinking, "That's an encouraging thing to tell us at orientation! Way to be a positive motivational influence!"

I'd like to see the numbers presented that way for each high school.
The schools with the lower numbers could actually have higher percentages of students dropping out.

Numbers can be misleading...
I had a friend who transferred to a private high school after our freshman year. He graduated validictorian & brags about that to this day, but what he doesn't tell anyone is that there were just three people in his graduating class!
I'll bet the person who was last in his class tells people they graduated 3rd in their class... also leaving out the fact that there were just the three of them.



I don't know what it's like now, but YHS had the best opportunities for learning in the county when I was there.
They had a full planetarium that other school's students would visit on field trips, a greenhouse, the best equiped science dept in the county, receiving surplus equipment from York Hospital and other outlets that the other schools didn't have. Several teachers had doctorates, many of the teachers were also teaching college courses part time at York College, etc etc.
Students who were more inclined to excel in sports also had ample opportunities. As far as the phys-ed dept was concerned, there was an olympic sized pool & diving tank, a main gym & two aux gyms, plus a weight room, wrestling room, and indoor track. Outside, we had a football field, baseball diamond & outdoor track & field setup.
For the vocational students, there was a huge wood shop, two large metal shops, a print shop with a full sized three color (at the time, state of the art) printing press, two darkrooms, a drafting room, a plastics shop, and a shop for small engine repair.
There was an entire wing for performing arts with their own small stage in addition to the main auditorium. There were students who transferred in to the city just to be in our performing arts program.
We had by far the largest & best sounding marching band in the county
Etc etc etc No matter what you were into, YHS had the opportunity there for you to excel & prosper.
I really don't know what happened in the last 20+ years since I was a student there, but it seems to me that either the current crop of students aren't seizing the opportunities presented to them or the teachers don't care... or both.

[KMcL]

True, about the only thing I remeber from that statistics class I had to take was that if yuo tried hard enough, you can make them support nearly any point of view you want to convey. It all depends on what you show and what you don't...

Sounds like YHS had one heck of a physical school back then. I wonder what it looks like now... Then again, I might not want to know.

[87th PVI]

Hmm I wonder what life downtown has been like lately....

Hey MadamRaven, You were downtown recently weren't you? How'd your visit to our fine city go?

[MadamRaven]

WELL, 87th let's see...
AMGibson and I were taking home the intoxicated people on Halloween night. This guy was right the corner of Market and Queen. He was standing out on the egde of the curb but we had to drive around the block to get the picture and he had stepped back. We asked permission for the photo and he covered his face...but didn't stop what he was doing lol

[Deanimator]

Originally Posted by BufordTPisser

As far as the racial divide in York, it has been there for as long as I can remember. Ever since we had a mayor that called people of color "Darkies", and we had policemen who moved a barricade to allow Lily Belle Allen to come to her demise, to having a former mayor who handed out ammo and pumped his fist in the air and shouted "White Power". The racial rift in York will never heal because there are people on both sides of the color spectrum who will never let it heal. York is irretrievably lost. Get out while you can. Or at least arm yourself while you are there.

Sounds like Chicago. Any home invasion rings operating inside the police department?

[BufordTPisser]

I don't know about home invasion rings, but I do know quite a few people who walked in the front door of the police department looking perfectly healthy and walked or were gurneyed out the back after having mysteriously used their faces to beat up on some officers black jack. I don't think that they are as bad as they once were, but I would never stop my car when being pulled over unless we were in a well lit area. They were not all bad, it is just that the one or two or five that were made all of the rest look bad and whenever you complained you ran into the blue brotherhood issue. I was never personally assaulted, but I did witness a few who were. Then again I turn into a perfect gentleman when someone is in my face with a gun.

[Computer Steve]

Originally Posted by MadamRaven

WELL, 87th let's see...
AMGibson and I were taking home the intoxicated people on Halloween night. This guy was right the corner of Market and Queen. He was standing out on the egde of the curb but we had to drive around the block to get the picture and he had stepped back. We asked permission for the photo and he covered his face...but didn't stop what he was doing lol

HAHAHAHA!!!

ROFL!