MANY S.F. SCHOOLS TO CLOSE OR MERGE

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | January 20, 2006 | Heather Knight

[ken5050]

D) All of the above

[winner3000]

No mention of where these students have gone?

Part of the answer is less baby making and more baby killing.

[Alia]

Thank you for the ping. SF Voters recently passed a measure for extra funds for the SF Schools. Most the voters, I hear, thought it was for elementary schools. After the measure passed, Mayor Newsom announced the funds would go to starting a preschool. I hear the voters were pretty angry at the shell game.

I wonder if keeping these "closing" school afloat is what voters had been led/or surmised the "funds" were for (when they voted FOR it) -- to keep them open and operational.

Now, my big question is.. who is planning on buying the properties those schools were on.

I doubt SF leadership would make these school-closure decisions based on lack-of-enrollment figures, alone. Assuredly, the shake-and-deals have already been made. SOP, for SF.

[Alia]

Just so you know: The Link on the Gates Foundation now reads:

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[Clemenza]

I know. I really hope to live in NYC for the rest of my life (flame away freepers!). Nevertheless, I know that if my future wife decides to drop one, I'll be moving to some strip mall hell.

[BelegStrongbow]

You have quite the data. I didn't know most of that and there I was, living no more than 50 miles away. Caveat: I refused to even enter the City unless the occasion strictly demanded it and even then would only do exactly what was required and immediately left.

I lived in SF for three or four years and still have family there, so once upon a time, I used to pay attention. However, that attention has been repaid with bestiality and inhumanity fron SFers with nary a care. I don't need two slaps in the face to know not to look.

I wish I had data I could fill in for you with on what the Supervisors have in mind, but from what I saw done elsewhere in the state (my old high school, for instance), the likelihood is that the facility will be turned into a general education center, perhaps partly staffed with non-profits like the Red Cross or Second Harvest.

Of course, if families with children really are net leaving the City, and that trend does not turn around, then the population will most likely stabilize at some lower level made up of unmarried or casually-coupled professionals. They'll look smart and be urbane, but they'll be less than human, IMHO, because it will most distinctly be always all about them.

Just like you see on TV.

[Alia]

Yes. It does appear that the Robert Reich "one stop" plan concerning pub ed schools is in the works by the CA Democrats. Off the top of my head -- he proposed that pub ed schools be turned into "government centers" -- welfare checks, medical, criminal probationary check in points (meaning... released criminals walking onto the school campus to do their "check-ins"), etc.

[cgbg]

Reich almost got it right--they should acknowledge that their crappy schools with required attendance are in fact prisons and merge them with the current prison population. :-(

[HitmanLV]

I think that it's just that there are less children in SF.

[Alia]

In fact that's what I've called CA pub ed schools for years: "education to prison" training camps. It's hard not to see it that way, especially, in the blue "counties" of CA. And then the libbies shriek on the other sides of their mouths: There are too many prisoners!

It's a major shell game.