Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2021

Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by rcpt on Saturday June 19, 2021 @12:40PM (#27562000)

> lets the people most capable of forcing change to opt out of an increasingly broken system, and so it doesn't get fixed.

I don't think voting homeowner retirees sitting on fat Prop 13 tax cuts are going to change their tune because their grandkids can't go to private school.

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by bushbaba on Saturday June 19, 2021 @01:41PM (#27562542)

Majority of education budget goes to paying for pensions of retirees.

There’s no budget shortage. There’s a mis use of funds. If you throw more money into the system we’ll just see even crazier pension packages and administration staff overheads.

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by mindvirus on Saturday June 19, 2021 @12:51PM (#27562098)

I doubt that these problems are from a lack of funding.

From a systems point of view though - why would businesses move to SF if it meant bad schools? The answer right now is because the leadership can opt out and go into the private system, but if that wasn't the case, I think there would be a lot of incentive on the city to fix these problems.

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