California Must be Building Its Schools Out of Gold With Our Silver

So, who are the people that operate the Coalition for Safe & Healthy Neighborhood Schools? That most likely answers itself, too, but just in case it doesn’t, I’d like to know how many of them are the mayor’s real estate developer cronies who have a financial vested interest.

Hopefully some little guys made a few honest dollars and not some no-bid printing contractor. Aside from that, it’s wasted money. How many people actually read all the campaign crap that clogs up our mailboxes. I don’t. Whatever they say in their literature is “spin,” and not how I choose to learn about issues or candidates.

Okay, I need a life and have time to do even a minimal amount of research on these things.

Wait a minute! That is part of my life!

It’s as much a part of my life now as it was when I was busy working and raising kids who went to our miserable schools, and managed to graduate from universities in spite of the miserable schools they attended.

Fifth in 11 years!?! Even with my lousy LAUSD arithmetic education I figured out that’s a bond measure ever 2.5 years. What the hell are they doing with all that money?

The bond would mainly pay for building repairs and remodeling as well as new technology.

Buildings need repairing and remodeling just as our houses do, but can’t school maintenance crews do the work they’re qualified to do, and open-bid contracts let for the more complicated stuff?

Technology should be paid for out of the budget and/or donated by the companies that make the technology. Yes, kids absolutely must learn how to use the new technologies, but they can still learn a lot of things the old-fashioned way, by reading a book and taking notes.

Ooops! I forgot. Our schools don’t teach them how to read, and more than half of L.A.’s population walks the streets as functional illiterates.

What the $#%^&$ are they spending that money on? Marble inlayed walls? Schools that look like Roman halls? The highest price tagged no-bid contracts?

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