California public school enrollment sees big drops

Re:California public school enrollment sees big drops by olliej on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:09AM (#35465189)

super location dependent. There are many reasons, from the absurd to the cruel (CA for example doesn't allow property taxes/council rates to track market value, largely because of campaigning in the 70s after the Supreme Court said CA had to fund schools in poor neighborhoods to the same extent as those in rich neighborhoods).

I'm from NZ, so my US partner's Oakland, CA high school experience was horrifying:

  * They had metal detectors on entrances
  * They had armed police (or something similar: a precursor to the modern US "school resource officers")
  * They had drug dogs, one of which OD'd
  * The toilet stalls did not have doors

On the other hand, if you drove 15 minutes up the road into Berkeley, their public high schools have their own swimming pools.

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Re:California public school enrollment sees big drops by kylehotchkiss on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:12AM (#35465242)

I’ve never heard of toilet stalls without doors in schools. The really flimsy walls high above the floors, sure, but no doors? That sounds like a massive open door for bullying

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Re:California public school enrollment sees big drops by cvwright on Thursday April 06, 2023 @07:50AM (#35467090)

My otherwise nice schools in the 90s were like that. No door on the boys’ bathroom, and no doors on the stalls.

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Re:California public school enrollment sees big drops by cafard on Thursday April 06, 2023 @08:28AM (#35467437)

My elementary school had no doors on the toilet stalls, in the wing of the school for 6th graders and up. I haven't seen that since.

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Re:California public school enrollment sees big drops by olliej on Thursday April 06, 2023 @06:06PM (#35475189)

The high school was really leaning into "school is a prison" :-/

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