[quote=CA renter]
Those are just the “official” special ed students. There are many other students who require extensive resources: low SES students, ESL students, students with major behavioral issues (many of whom should be classified as special ed), etc.
In many public schools, these types of students make up 80-90%+ of the student population. Then, you also have the high student turnover rate in many schools, where over half of your class turns over by the end of the year, and they are replaced by students from other schools or from other countries (oftentimes, they haven’t even attended much school because they come from small villages where children are expected to help their families with farm or other types of work).
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WTF? We are talking about SDUSD. Where are the small villages that feed kids into SDUSD? It just sad that people in the system of providing public education seem to have only 1 way to fix the problem. Throw more money at it. Give the current teachers raises and that will improve education. Like somehow the current existing teachers will suddenly improve if their paycheck goes up 10%. That somehow promoting some teachers into Assistance Vice Principal roles and hiring more new fresh colleges graduates into the teaching roles will fix everything that’s wrong with our schools. That spending money on iPads when you haven’t even addressed how they are going to be used to improve education is somehow going to improve education. Any charter or private school that out performs the public sector is somehow cheating because they only deal with the good students. Of course the bottom line is if you want your child to be educated your going to have to do it being a parent.
If the situation is really how you describe where it’s just too hard to educate kids because of the reasons you listed then maybe we shouldn’t be providing public education. It a waste of money because we don’t get anything out of it. Let the kids parent pay for their day care and we can provide education to kids that want to be there.
