Good on you, San Francisco

[Anonymous]

Three numbskull school board members recalled.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/16/1081035770/san-francisco-voters-recall-three-school-board-members

Most surprising thing I read in the article, though: SF has a population of over 800,000 but only 50,000 students in its school system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Three numbskull school board members recalled.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/16/1081035770/san-francisco-voters-recall-three-school-board-members

Most surprising thing I read in the article, though: SF has a population of over 800,000 but only 50,000 students in its school system.

There are more dogs than kids in SF. I loved living there way back when, but it is not a great place to raise a family. Everyone I know in the area has their kids in catholic school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Three numbskull school board members recalled.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/16/1081035770/san-francisco-voters-recall-three-school-board-members

Most surprising thing I read in the article, though: SF has a population of over 800,000 but only 50,000 students in its school system.

I'm originally from that area. Numbers aren't surprising.

-SF is not family friendly. There are a lot of single/childless people in SF
-Many who have families eventually move out
-Some put their kids in private school
-The few I know in public got their kid into Lowell

But yes, good for SF parents. I hope DC area schools are paying attention. We have huge issues in schools right now, the least of which is the name of the school and wanting to change it due to changing societal norms and cultures. Leave the magnets alone, and focus on the embarrassing fact that a large % of URM can't read/write or do math at grade level. Sending a few URM to magnets isn't going to make the metrics for achievement for this group look any better.

Smaller class sizes, additional aides/para teachers, and being IN class -- those are the things that would help get those kids at grade level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Three numbskull school board members recalled.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/16/1081035770/san-francisco-voters-recall-three-school-board-members

Most surprising thing I read in the article, though: SF has a population of over 800,000 but only 50,000 students in its school system.

I'm originally from that area. Numbers aren't surprising.

-SF is not family friendly. There are a lot of single/childless people in SF
-Many who have families eventually move out
-Some put their kids in private school
-The few I know in public got their kid into Lowell

But yes, good for SF parents. I hope DC area schools are paying attention. We have huge issues in schools right now, the least of which is the name of the school and wanting to change it due to changing societal norms and cultures. Leave the magnets alone, and focus on the embarrassing fact that a large % of URM can't read/write or do math at grade level. Sending a few URM to magnets isn't going to make the metrics for achievement for this group look any better.

Smaller class sizes, additional aides/para teachers, and being IN class -- those are the things that would help get those kids at grade level.

""why the school board is advancing a plan to have all these schools renamed by April, when there isn't a plan to have our kids back in the classroom by then." - this sounds like something that would happen in DC
Good for the people in San Francisco! I am glad they took action.

[Anonymous]

They were “too San Francisco” even for San Francisco.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Three numbskull school board members recalled.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/16/1081035770/san-francisco-voters-recall-three-school-board-members

Most surprising thing I read in the article, though: SF has a population of over 800,000 but only 50,000 students in its school system.

There are more dogs than kids in SF. I loved living there way back when, but it is not a great place to raise a family. Everyone I know in the area has their kids in catholic school.

I don’t know who you know, but I live here and literally don’t know any kids in catholic school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Three numbskull school board members recalled.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/16/1081035770/san-francisco-voters-recall-three-school-board-members

Most surprising thing I read in the article, though: SF has a population of over 800,000 but only 50,000 students in its school system.

There are more dogs than kids in SF. I loved living there way back when, but it is not a great place to raise a family. Everyone I know in the area has their kids in catholic school.

I don’t know who you know, but I live here and literally don’t know any kids in catholic school.

That’s nice. Catholic schools in SF exist and are full of children, so presumably there are many parents who made the decision to send kids there and surprisingly enough some of them have friends in the DC area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They were “too San Francisco” even for San Francisco.

lol

-originally from Bay Area. As much as I complain about DC area schools, CA schools are worse off. Well intentioned uber liberals are killing the schools there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They were “too San Francisco” even for San Francisco.

lol

-originally from Bay Area. As much as I complain about DC area schools, CA schools are worse off. Well intentioned uber liberals are killing the schools there.

Another Bay Area native. I agree with you. They have destroyed the state.

Now they are moving on like locusts to ruin Texas. They will take their extremist views (and votes) to successful states, while CA increasingly hemorrhages people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They were “too San Francisco” even for San Francisco.

lol

-originally from Bay Area. As much as I complain about DC area schools, CA schools are worse off. Well intentioned uber liberals are killing the schools there.

They're not "well-intentioned." They are leftists who believe that their primary goal - "equity" - can only be achieved by mass destruction.

Good on you, SF is right. If it can happen there, it can happen anywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They were “too San Francisco” even for San Francisco.

lol

-originally from Bay Area. As much as I complain about DC area schools, CA schools are worse off. Well intentioned uber liberals are killing the schools there.

Bay Area resident with kids in public school. It's not "uber liberals" killing the schools. A big problem is Prop 13 and the way it has distorted local tax bases beyond repair. There are also both liberal and conservative policies that negatively impact schools...but the problems are well beyond partisan politics. It's harmful to turn this into a partisan/ideological issue when the real problem is that no one here truly values public education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They were “too San Francisco” even for San Francisco.

lol

-originally from Bay Area. As much as I complain about DC area schools, CA schools are worse off. Well intentioned uber liberals are killing the schools there.

Bay Area resident with kids in public school. It's not "uber liberals" killing the schools. A big problem is Prop 13 and the way it has distorted local tax bases beyond repair. There are also both liberal and conservative policies that negatively impact schools...but the problems are well beyond partisan politics. It's harmful to turn this into a partisan/ideological issue when the real problem is that no one here truly values public education.

It's absolutely a partisan/ ideological issue, when 70% of voters in the most leftist city in the country boot this many school board members at one time. And to say that "no one here truly values public education" is laughable. PARENTS obviously value public education, and they voted that way.

[Anonymous]

Bye-bye.

The San Francisco Unified School District board has seven members, all of them Democrats, but only three were eligible to be recalled: school board President Gabriela López, Vice President Faauuga Moliga and Commissioner Alison Collins.

Voters overwhelmingly supported the recall of all three progressive members, according to tallies by the San Francisco Department of Elections.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Three numbskull school board members recalled.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/16/1081035770/san-francisco-voters-recall-three-school-board-members

Most surprising thing I read in the article, though: SF has a population of over 800,000 but only 50,000 students in its school system.

There are more dogs than kids in SF. I loved living there way back when, but it is not a great place to raise a family. Everyone I know in the area has their kids in catholic school.

D.C. isn't that different. Population over 700,000 but only 44,000 students.

https://wtop.com/dc/2021/12/dc-had-largest-percentage-drop-in-population-in-nation/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They were “too San Francisco” even for San Francisco.

lol

-originally from Bay Area. As much as I complain about DC area schools, CA schools are worse off. Well intentioned uber liberals are killing the schools there.

Bay Area resident with kids in public school. It's not "uber liberals" killing the schools. A big problem is Prop 13 and the way it has distorted local tax bases beyond repair. There are also both liberal and conservative policies that negatively impact schools...but the problems are well beyond partisan politics. It's harmful to turn this into a partisan/ideological issue when the real problem is that no one here truly values public education.

Former resident here. The problem is that the democrats forced the schools to be mixed up so there weren’t good and bad schools anymore, they were just all mediocre. So the ‘better’ families left the public system for private schools, or moved out of the city entirely for the suburbs, and now all the remaining public schools are awful. Add to that the reduced funding for schools due to prop 13 and the increased strain on the schools due to a ton of illegal immigration and there’s nothing left to save. The public schools weren’t destroyed because parents didn’t value them, they were destroyed because of ‘equity’.