I'm a Gen X who grew up in San Francisco. Everything was slowly phased out because of "budget cuts". But then CA is just insane when it comes to schools. When my Gen Z daughter was in school in CA (not SF but in the Bay Area) we had annual fundraisers to hire PE teachers and computer instructors. Gee, shouldn't the high property taxes cover that? You'd think so but no 🤬
I'm a Gen X as well. We still had "Vo Tech" with woodworking, welding, auto mechanics, and a few other things. We even had a special campus in my town that was ONLY for the Vo Tech kids.
They didn't cut the budget they repurposed it towards hiring administrative staff to deal with the bullshit regulations coming out of the Department of education. Since then we've had like a 700% increase in the amount of administrative staff and it's all because they're needed to deal with the stupid fucking bullshit regulations coming from the bloated and corrupt Department of Education. They create more regulations in order to create more jobs to deal with the regulations. They create a problem and then they send over pallets of money and say Here's the solution to the problem we created.
I'm a Gen X who grew up in San Francisco. Everything was slowly phased out because of "budget cuts". But then CA is just insane when it comes to schools. When my Gen Z daughter was in school in CA (not SF but in the Bay Area) we had annual fundraisers to hire PE teachers and computer instructors. Gee, shouldn't the high property taxes cover that? You'd think so but no 🤬
The Calif Lotto was also sold as a way to fill in the funding gaps in schools.
Instead, the grifters in Sacto, took all that Lotto money and cut the schools budget by the exact amount schools were supposed to get from the Lotto.
But, that is also ignoring the fact that Calif pays far more per student and has worst results than most of the rest of the country.
I'm a Gen X as well. We still had "Vo Tech" with woodworking, welding, auto mechanics, and a few other things. We even had a special campus in my town that was ONLY for the Vo Tech kids.
It was all gone a few years after I graduated.
They didn't cut the budget they repurposed it towards hiring administrative staff to deal with the bullshit regulations coming out of the Department of education. Since then we've had like a 700% increase in the amount of administrative staff and it's all because they're needed to deal with the stupid fucking bullshit regulations coming from the bloated and corrupt Department of Education. They create more regulations in order to create more jobs to deal with the regulations. They create a problem and then they send over pallets of money and say Here's the solution to the problem we created.