Recent comments in /f/WorcesterMA

ganduvo t1_is0sqqe wrote

With a child on the spectrum, Holden is a good bet. He'll get better services through the Wachusett school district than through Worcester. Worcester schools are fine but if I had an impacted child I'd prefer to be in Wachusett. Wachusett might have more opportunities for gifted students, but, the kid is 4. Talented in 'music, computers, STEM, and maps/geography' at 4 years old sounds a lot more like a parent over-embellishing their first born than reality. Either way, Holden is a good bet.

I am not asian american but Holden is fairly affluent and welcoming. Most of MA is, really. As others said, Worcester has a decently sized Vietnamese population and Worcester borders Holden; might be able to find some community connections that way. Again, with a child on the spectrum I would opt for Holden, but depending on where you live in Holden everything in Worcester is a short drive.

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[deleted] OP t1_is0nrtm wrote

Whatever. You started off with "Quinsigamond Plantation was part of the trans-Atlantic slave trade," which implies that it was something more than just some outpost and was actually used for the slave trade. But then when I asked for a source, you started in with posts about, "Plantation isn't a Nipmuc word!" and went after a vagary in what I wrote, suggesting that I didn't know the British were Europeans or that the Europeans gave it the name, all trying to move away from the actual point, which was that the word "plantation" in this context had no connection to the slave plantations of the south and entirely pre-dates them.

Now you're telling me, "Oh, you should learn things, durr durr," in response to me pointing out that your logic leads to the word "plantation" being offensive only insofar as every single other colonial name is offensive.

And sorry I mis-named the book I read and found overly superficial decades ago while quickly typing at very odd hours this morning.

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-Dij- t1_is0nlaz wrote

Went there once when we moved to Worcester, I felt like most of the furniture was IKEA quality without IKEA’s low prices and that’s definitely not what I was looking for

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