We have a lot of that going on here in CA. The Bay even has special taxes on top of normal taxes to fund local schools, which never cease to complain that they don’t have enough money. Having been here a very long time since before the tech boom brought in leftist vultures, I have personally seen schools get paid more and more money year over year while only producing worse students with worse metrics, all the while schools complain more and more. Most of it’s not going to the teachers, either, though I admittedly have a heard time taking their unions seriously when public school teachers here can start at $80K and go to $120k. That’s a lot of money for a public school teacher. I’ve heard some complain that ER nurses make way more, but they’re also fucking nurses in the fucking Emergency Room working random 12 hour shifts around people that are often dying.
It’s not just K12, either. We have great colleges here but there’s unlimited fuckery there too. The head of the UC system’s been called out on that a lot. I think she’s resigning over it. They’ve been stealing money and hoarding it for years. The number only grows over time, but I think at one point they found the president of it hid $200 mil or so, if not more. This was all during massive layoffs and the financial collapse, over a period where you’d actually benefit from using money like that. Her excuse was that the money is ‘for an emergency’. Considering how many people they were laying off and all the money they’re constantly asking for, and now the coronavirus nonsense, I’m not sure what else would qualify as an emergency if those didn’t. If we hit the end times it’s not like anybody’s going to college anymore. It’s like when 9/11 happened and the emergency broadcast system did fuck all to broadcast about it. If that’s not the time to use it, what is? I’m willing to bet they’d sooner use it to announce racism is a ‘public health’ issue than another 9/11 or a meteor taking out half the nation.
They’ve consistently dicked people working at the schools too, though there’s still plenty of Karens in that area that I’m okay with people fucking over. They’ve consistently outsourced things you wouldn’t think of outsourcing, like financial aid help and support, having the person that’s been there competently doing it for decades train Indian NPCs that don’t speak English well enough to do the job as their replacements.
The fact that Common Core’s in there is like using poop as an icing on a cake that’s already long since spoiled and gone bad. I personally would not send my kids to one of the public schools out here, despite them being some of the most well funded and expensive in the nation, if not the most expensive given how much money they extort for them. All I’ve seen the tax money for that go to is nicer cars for higher ups and buying all teachers copies of books like “Waking Up White” and “Antiracism” to read in their spare time.
Heard it’s going to cost $500 more per student over some time period like per month to make K12’s here ‘abide by social distancing guidelines’. It’s going to lead to more extortion. It’s the same kind of shit that’s wrong with healthcare, only now it’s targeting your kids. The problem isn’t that they don’t have enough money. It’s clearly not if they have received more money year over year than ever before and had worse student outcomes.
We have a lot of that going on here in CA. The Bay even has special taxes on top of normal taxes to fund local schools, which never cease to complain that they don’t have enough money. Having been here a very long time since before the tech boom brought in leftist vultures, I have personally seen schools get paid more and more money year over year while only producing worse students with worse metrics, all the while schools complain more and more. Most of it’s not going to the teachers, either, though I admittedly have a heard time taking their unions seriously when public school teachers here can start at $80K and go to $120k. That’s a lot of money for a public school teacher. I’ve heard some complain that ER nurses make way more, but they’re also fucking nurses in the fucking Emergency Room working random 12 hour shifts around people that are often dying.
It’s not just K12, either. We have great colleges here but there’s unlimited fuckery there too. The head of the UC system’s been called out on that a lot. I think she’s resigning over it. They’ve been stealing money and hoarding it for years. The number only grows over time, but I think at one point they found the president of it hid $200 mil or so, if not more. This was all during massive layoffs and the financial collapse, over a period where you’d actually benefit from using money like that. Her excuse was that the money is ‘for an emergency’. Considering how many people they were laying off and all the money they’re constantly asking for, and now the coronavirus nonsense, I’m not sure what else would qualify as an emergency if those didn’t. If we hit the end times it’s not like anybody’s going to college anymore. It’s like when 9/11 happened and the emergency broadcast system did fuck all to broadcast about it. If that’s not the time to use it, what is? I’m willing to bet they’d sooner use it to announce racism is a ‘public health’ issue than another 9/11 or a meteor taking out half the nation.
They’ve consistently dicked people working at the schools too, though there’s still plenty of Karens in that area that I’m okay with people fucking over. They’ve consistently outsourced things you wouldn’t think of outsourcing, like financial aid help and support, having the person that’s been there competently doing it for decades train Indian NPCs that don’t speak English well enough to do the job as their replacements.
The fact that Common Core’s in there is like using poop as an icing on a cake that’s already long since spoiled and gone bad. I personally would not send my kids to one of the public schools out here, despite them being some of the most well funded and expensive in the nation, if not the most expensive given how much money they extort for them. All I’ve seen the tax money for that go to is nicer cars for higher ups and buying all teachers copies of books like “Waking Up White” and “Antiracism” to read in their spare time.
Heard it’s going to cost $500 more per student over some time period like per month to make K12’s here ‘abide by social distancing guidelines’. It’s going to lead to more extortion. It’s the same kind of shit that’s wrong with healthcare, only now it’s targeting your kids. The problem isn’t that they don’t have enough money. It’s clearly not if they have received more money year over year than ever before and had worse student outcomes.