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Building maintenace is the most readily glaring, but by far the worst aspect of prop 13 passing is how much school districts were and still are defunded. Untold
by wasdfff 7y ago
Building maintenace is the most readily glaring, but by far the worst aspect of prop 13 passing is how much school districts were and still are defunded. Untold damage to 40 years of students.
- acdha 7y agoI’m also curious how it’ll work for hiring new teachers: they’re usually offered worse wages than the retiring boomers saw at the same point in their careers and the housing market is much worse.
- Decade 7y agoIt’s working poorly. All the school districts near me have chronic teacher shortages, and there’s tremendous teacher turnover. Occasionally a teacher will go homeless before leaving for a district with lower cost of living. A prominent neighborhood activist has switched from NIMBY to YIMBY because his wife was recruited on an emergency basis to teach high school English without a teaching certificate, and has been teaching for the past several years. All the teachers I know of my age are living either with parents or with their parents’ financial assistance. The one mitigating factor is that young parents are having difficulty affording this region, so schools are starting to close and not need any teachers anymore.