Article: https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/08/affordable-housing/
Choice quotes from the article:
"...California officials are pushing school districts to convert their surplus property into housing for teachers, school staff and even students and families. Some districts have already started; now the state wants every district to become a landlord."
"If Proposition 2, a $10 billion school facilities bond, passes this fall, schools could use that money to not only repair classrooms and other structures, but build teacher housing. "
"The model state officials often point to is 705 Serramonte in Daly City. The Jefferson Union High School District opened the 122-unit apartment complex in 2022, and it now houses a quarter of the district staff... The district paid for the $75 million project by passing a $33 million bond specifically for teacher housing, and borrowed the rest... Teachers commute(d) from the East Bay and beyond, and the district grappled with a persistent 25% staff turnover rate annually, said district spokesperson Denise Shreve... Since 705 Serramonte opened, the district has had near zero turnover...“We call it ‘adult dorms.’
"A better solution, she said, would be for housing to be left to regional authorities and for the state to fund school districts sufficiently to pay their teachers more."
You can't improve public education. It's designed to corrupt to useless brainwashing. Find an alternative the teaching "indistry" is screwed and never coming back.
100%.
Having kids sit in school for 8 hours a day for the vast majority of their time on this Earth before 18 isn't "education", it's a crime against humanity. And it only exists to make docile widget factory workers who are highly skilled at sitting in the factory all day and making widgets. Or more recently an office.
Almost all of the information outside of basic math and reading/writing is useless anyway. You're not meant to remember it, and I'd wager that most people forget most of it. What's really being taught is sitting still for extended periods of time and focusing on the tasks handed down to you by your superior.
In contrast, a real education would be going out and gaining experience in the world as well as a comparatively far smaller homeschooling program. Any kid that does that will turn out as a far better member of society than one who sat in even a good school all day for most of his life.
I am a big proponent of parents having a basket of alternative teaching methods to choose from. Kids are all different and one-size-fits-all education works for very few.