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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They were “too San Francisco” even for San Francisco.[/quote]
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-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.[/quote]
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.[/quote]

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’.[/quote]

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