[quote=deadzone]Which goes back to my point, the illegals using California schools are a far bigger problem than the border crossers. Sure it is illegal for border crossers to use our schools and I get your frustration. But it is also illegal for non American without a green card to reside in the U.S. in the first place. There are exponentially more of these kids than there are border crossers in South Bay as well as everywhere.
Sure Southbay also gets the double whammy of the border crossers too, but even in S. Bay I guarantee you that there are way more illegals/anchors in your schools than there are border crossers.[/quote]Unless all the “illegals” are rounded up and deported (unlikely), then they will continue to live on this side of the border. Many of them have legitimate US addresses in their names because US landlords will rent to them. And an “illegal” (or foreign citizen) can also buy property in the US if they first get themselves issued an ID number from the IRS and pay cash for the property.
The border-crossing student problem is easier to fix because it is illegal for them to attend our schools as a NON-resident without paying tuition. It CAN be fixed by both ICE and the school districts who are allowing these kids to enroll using the addresses of “fake guardians.” In doing so, I believe it would eliminate at least 20K students enrolled in SD South County school districts alone. And a few thousand more (1-3K) currently enrolled in the rest of the SD County school districts combined. That’s probably enough saved money to bring back daily/weekly art, music and PE to the ALL the elementary schools in the county, as well as buy newer PE equipment for the secondary schools, among other things!
The lack of daily PE classes in CA K-12 public schools in the last 15 years is partly responsible for the childhood obesity epidemic, imho.
I believe that 20-25% of our public school teachers are eligible to retire today (at least in my local districts) so it really wouldn’t be a problem. Nor would closing older, unused public school campuses (to avoid utility payments on them) and consolidating the remaining ELIGIBLE student body into the remaining schools.
