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A few years ago, there was a similar incentive scheme by a businessman to revitalize the Jewish congregation in Dothan, AL that he grew up in. The plan was laun

A few years ago, there was a similar incentive scheme by a businessman to revitalize the Jewish congregation in Dothan, AL that he grew up in. The plan was launched with great fanfare (see here: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/us/an-alabama-synagogue-once-struggling-for-congregants-stretches-out-its-hand.html https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/us/an-alabama-synagogue-o...) but failed badly: https://www.timesofisrael.com/billionaires-scheme-to-revive-alabama-jewish-community-goes-south/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/billionaires-scheme-to-revive-... None of the newcomers stayed, too much casual racism, no qualified jobs and bad weather. You'd think this Oklahoma scheme will work out just the same. In Tulsa you get unbearable heat in Summer, tornadoes in Spring, bad schools (the private school for your kids will really bust your budget), driving everywhere, and racist rednecks, lots of racist rednecks. Good luck to anyone who avails himself of this program, they'll need it unless they are native Oklahomians and know what they are getting themselves into.

dcolkitt 6y ago
> bad schools (the private school for your kids will really bust your budget) Oklahoma has significantly better schools than California[1]. San Francisco has notoriously bad public schools, and hardly any upper-middle people send their kids there. It's not like NYC, which has strong magnet programs for the gifted. The one really good SF school, Lowell, is replacing its meritocratic test score system with a diversity lottery. [1]https://www.vox.com/2015/10/26/9617514/test-scores-naep-2013 https://www.vox.com/2015/10/26/9617514/test-scores-naep-2013 [2]https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/10/21/san-franciscos-lowell-high-school-officially-switches-from-merit-selection-system-to-lottery-in-2021/ https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/10/21/san-franciscos-...
- HarryHirsch 6y ago
  Anyone coming to Oklahoma from the Northeast will be in for a shock. The poor state of schools in California is a surprise, but then large parts of the state are agricultural and deep red, or otherwise simply in the middle of nowhere. CA should take a look at GA, Georgia schools are surprisingly good, especially when you compare them to the utter lousiness you find across the state line in AL. I don't know what they are doing in GA, but it works.
floor2 6y ago
The irony of complaining about "racist <racial slur>" is amazing. If you actually went and talked to these people instead of declaring they're evil, stupid and vile from far away, you might find they're actually decent humans and not the scary racist enemies you imagine them to be.

dcolkitt 6y ago

> bad schools (the private school for your kids will really bust your budget) Oklahoma has significantly better schools than California[1]. San Francisco has notoriously bad public schools, and hardly any upper-middle people send their kids there. It's not like NYC, which has strong magnet programs for the gifted. The one really good SF school, Lowell, is replacing its meritocratic test score system with a diversity lottery. [1]https://www.vox.com/2015/10/26/9617514/test-scores-naep-2013 https://www.vox.com/2015/10/26/9617514/test-scores-naep-2013 [2]https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/10/21/san-franciscos-lowell-high-school-officially-switches-from-merit-selection-system-to-lottery-in-2021/ https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/10/21/san-franciscos-...

HarryHirsch 6y ago
Anyone coming to Oklahoma from the Northeast will be in for a shock. The poor state of schools in California is a surprise, but then large parts of the state are agricultural and deep red, or otherwise simply in the middle of nowhere. CA should take a look at GA, Georgia schools are surprisingly good, especially when you compare them to the utter lousiness you find across the state line in AL. I don't know what they are doing in GA, but it works.

floor2 6y ago

The irony of complaining about "racist <racial slur>" is amazing. If you actually went and talked to these people instead of declaring they're evil, stupid and vile from far away, you might find they're actually decent humans and not the scary racist enemies you imagine them to be.