Re-Purposing inner & almost inner-city schools

[93JC]

Originally Posted by speedog

Couple of quick questions for you, 93JC.

Couple? I count three.

One, do you have kids?

Nnnnnnnnope.

Two, are you actively involved in your kid's school if you have kids and if so, how?

Three, are you actively involved in the community that you reside in and if so, how?

Nnnnnnnope.

Just trying to get an idea of your demographic

Single, no kids. If you had asked me five years ago I would have said I wanted to get married and have kids. Now, couldn't care less.

myself, I can answer yes to all three of the above and my wife and I have been very actively involved in our kid's schools and our community association as we either are or have actively sat as board members on the non-profit organizations at both our kid's schools and our community association.

That's not to say that you don't have valid input and ideas as someone who may not be able to answer yes to all of the above questions but it does give us an idea of where you're coming from - certainly my ideas and thoughts changed as I went from being a single to married to married with kids in the system and no doubt they'll change again as only one of my three kids is in the system now (two at U of C now).

Having kids in the system and being a very active member of non-profits and community associations might cloud one's view of the externalities that a more detached, objective, impartial observer would pick up on.