"Dear fellow taxpayer in the East Ramapo school district, again and again, I read about how upset you are about the members of the school board, how we bloc-voted them in, how we don't have the interests of the schoolchildren at heart. Well, let's take a closer look at that.
For many years, you took our tax money, year after year, increase after increase, and you never had any problem with that. But when we finally get together and say, that's enough, that is a problem.
I have a solution. How about giving all of us the option to bow out of the public school system and keep our money in our pockets? You want our money and our silence. Sorry, you cannot have it all your way."
Dracula 发表于 2016-8-30 14:14
英文原文比这篇中文的编译要好不少,尤其是这篇中文编译里一些反犹主义的undertone让我读来有些不舒服。
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dynthia 发表于 2016-8-31 04:37
原文里面说他们的人口不占多数,但学龄儿童数占多数,所以他们能控制学区应该主要还是靠团结和组织。 ...
Ben Calhoun
White says, these days, even if his fellow public school activists organize better than ever, he doesn't think they could win a seat. The Hasidic community is now just too big. He estimates they're half of registered voters now. That door is closed, he told me.
Dracula 发表于 2016-8-30 15:00
这是英文的原文。
Most of the people in East Ramapo were not Hasids, but most of the children were. Two out of three children in the school district were Hasidic.
dynthia 发表于 2016-8-30 15:07
原文也说了:
dynthia 发表于 2016-8-31 05:07
原文也说了:
dynthia 发表于 2016-8-31 05:15
当然还有一种可能是其余人口中有很多没有投票权,不过从原文中看不出明显的证据。(有一个地方提到公校家 ...
Dracula 发表于 2016-8-30 15:28
我估计这里的Registered voter就是指这个学区的全部可能的适龄选民。要是反Hasids的那方的选民人口多,但 ...
Dracula 发表于 2016-8-30 15:31
文章里提到这个学区使用公立学校的基本上都是黑人或拉丁裔,几乎没有白人。拉丁裔里没有选举权的人口比例 ...
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