[quote=deadzone][quote=FlyerInHi][quote=Essbee]I’ll add one data point. 20 years ago, during college, I had a friend who had attended Bonita Vista High School in Chula Vista. One day, while hanging out, I met one of his former high school friends. Sure enough, that friend did indeed live in Tijuana (with his entire family) but had crossed the border every day to attend high school in the US. He openly admitted this.
I couldn’t understand how this was “legal”, considering that he wasn’t a U.S. resident. Obviously, it wasn’t legal. Basically, it was the phenomenon that BG has been talking about. I was kind of shocked by it all.[/quote]
I can see how this might work. For example that guy’s grandparents lived in Chula Vista. The grandparents were his legal guardians.
I don’t really see a problem… If the student were forced to physically live with the grandparents, then maybe the family would have made the sacrifice for the education and squeezed into a multi-family home. Plus it sounds like he now lives and works in USA. We are all better off for having educated him.
Even if he lives in Tijuana now, he likely crosses the border to to business in USA. The USA is first of mind for him and that benefits us economically, culturally, politically.
Just think of it this way… The Harvard JFK school of government welcomes students from across the globe because we want to influence the world to our way of life through education.[/quote]
Clearly you have no school age children, and certainly not going to school in the South Bay. So unless you do, your debate with BG is pointless.[/quote]Ha, ha, deadzone. I got back into town last night and just saw this and I’m now ready to indulge in one of my fav pastimes …. rolling in the mud with the Piggs :-0
As usual, I see here that FIH’s fantasies have once again run amok. Obviously, he didn’t even READ Essbee’s post. She specifically stated that the young man she met ADMITTED to her that he crossed the border every day to attend BVHS for 3 years (BVHS was a “Senior High” 20 years ago, thus it was only a 3-yr school). Of course, what did he have to lose at that point by admitting it after the fact? Students commuting to CVESD and SUHSD schools from Tijuana were a bit more secretive back then. Of course, his K-12 education couldn’t then be taken from him at that point. Like the tens of thousands of his “brethren” preceding and succeeding him, he was able to successfully “steal” 3-13 years worth of public education from South County SD taxpayers, and, to a lesser extent, the CA taxpayers as a whole. It is VERY possible that he ALSO attended BVMS, fka BVJHS (7-9) AS WELL AS attended K-6 at one of CVESD’s best elementary schools (and there are plenty). His successful completion of the 9th grade at BVJHS would have most certainly facilitated his entrance into BVSHS! And he attended BVSHS ALL THE WHILE commuting daily from Tijuana!
This has been going on for decades, folks, but has become especially pronounced (higher percentage of students commuting from MX in EVERY SINGLE school) in the past 15 years (during my youngest kid’s “tenure” at BVHS and feeder schools). My youngest kid’s feeder schools likely had 100 – 200 “daily border crossing students” enrolled in their middle school and 65-90 enrolled in their elementary school in any given year. And this is just a small sampling of these entire two district(s), which mostly overlap each other. SUHSD overlaps 3 other (much smaller) elementary school districts. There are 13 HS’s in SUHSD so BVM/BVH (plus their 3+ full and partial feeder elementary schools) equal about 1/13 of the South County student body.
FIH, do you not understand that by allowing a “Guardianship Affidavit” for residency purposes (absent a court order to that effect) that a public school district is inviting rampant abuses of it by out of district/out of countRy families? It’s a scam created by public school districts (with aging and gentrifying attendance areas) to perpetuate themselves into oblivion. A true “legal guardian” of a minor (parent(s) deceased, addicted, incarcerated, etc), can get a court order to that effect through their County’s HHSA with a county-issued lawyer at no cost to themselves and with little to zero opposition! Ask yourselves why public school districts along the US int’l border actually entertain such BS to establish the all-important “residency” for a prospective or continuing student.
BVHS (fka: BVSHS – grades 10-12) just so happens to be my own kids’ alma mater, lol, and they graduated 9 years apart from each other! If you ask THEM, “How many kids commuting from TJ every day did you go to HS with, the answer will be the same with each of them. “Ha, ha …. hundreds. It was a joke. All the teachers knew. Everyone knew and they didn’t even try to hide it.” Of course, BVHS always had dozens of vehicles sporting Baja plates parked in the student parking lot and anyone on this board is welcome to go check it out for themselves after school starts again later this month.
While you’re there, you may as well make the rounds to student parking lots of other district high schools. The best times to view the maximum amount of student vehicles parked at school is between 8:00 am and 11:00 am.
I invite everyone reading this to make the rounds and come back here and report your findings.
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Oh, and FIH? You must know that “Harvard” is a private university. Thus, it is not supported by US taxpayers. As far as I am concerned, they can admit students from other planets who arrive on campus by spaceship every day and it would be their own perogative to do so whilst collecting the Big Bucks for tuition from all comers.
NOT SO for US public schools in which the vast majority of districts have very finite resources.
