[quote=flu]So is the lesson to learn from the last couple of threads :
1. Chula Vista is a dump and a terrible place to invest wrto real estate.
2. Since illegals and border kids are a significant problem there, unlike other areas, it has, and will for a long time into the future, create a significant negative impact to home prices there.
3. No one in their right mind should live there, or if they do, should definitely not send their kids to public schools there.
?[/quote]flu, you’re twisting my words again, as usual. I never complained about RESIDENT “illegal” kids attending our schools. I complained about the thousands of NON-resident kids attending our public schools (whatever their citizenship status). The likes of YOU and YOUR brethren in 92130 would no doubt be mortified if too many interdistrict transfers were awarded into your public school district, causing your community’s RESIDENT kids to be displaced to a school further away from their homes! It wouldn’t even matter if these kids were being driven in by parents from SDUSD or even another North County school district every day (much less from Mexico)! You wouldn’t like your schools filled up with kids who did not have a legal right to attend them!
And every . single . city in SD North County has plenty of “illegals” living in it … some much more than others! If they are “residents” who have an actual US address, then their children are allowed by law to attend US schools. Whether that US address is in Otay Mesa (SD), one-half block from the border, in Vista, CA (roughly 50 miles from the border) or in Delhi, CA (approx 426 miles from the border), it doesn’t matter. “Illegals” are permitted by law to attend public school in the US IF they have a US-based street address and can prove it to the school district.
And AGAIN, there is no such thing as a “border kid.” The kids I’m speaking of here live on the “other side” of the border, i.e. “Mexico.”
You can say it, flu . . . M-E-X-I-C-O. See, that wasn’t so hard. We need to stop using euphemisms such as “border kids” and call it what it is.
As far as Chula Vista being a “dump,” nothing could be further from the truth. Of course, having never gotten off the freeway in Chula Vista, flu wouldn’t have any way of knowing that nor would he be able to speak about it intelligently :=0. We have this problem of thousands of kids living in MEXICO stealing seats in our public school classrooms because (1) our school districts are simply “conveniently located” for this group … nothing more; (2) our corrupt school district administrations have allowed it to go on for decades (for the “headcount money” from Sac); and, (3) border-crossing northbound schoolchildren have not been required to possess and show a Visa sponsored by a particular public school district (or private school) at the US Int’l border in order to pass through it. (This Visa would denote that they are on a payment plan for tuition with the district/school for a particular academic year and would be renewable by the district if tuition remains paid.) We’ve had sporadic border crackdowns on northbound schoolchildren in the morning last a few days here or there over the years but then the border patrol just goes back to “business as usual.” This is a responsibility of the Federal government and the procedures for schoolchildren crossing the border into the US every morning (whether accompanied or unaccompanied) need to be tightened. Thus, the problem is 50% the fault of the Federal government and 50% the fault of SD South County’s school districts (purposefully) lax residency policies.
svelte kind of missed the point as well. He well knows we have this problem of border-crossing schoolchildren in Chula Vista and he ALSO knows that plenty of “illegal” students and “anchor babies” attend public school in the north county city which he currently resides.
