[tumblindice]

Out in LaLaland the gueros (”white kids”) are learning some Spanish as the whole class stops so the teacher can have the `aides’ (interpreters) explain the question from the ten year old without a word of English to her, then translate her response into Spanish to him, and then his next question .... but they aren’t learning much else.
Of course, they weren’t learning much before either.
And California used to be the pinnacle of education.

[Verginius Rufus]

In 1957 we moved to Virginia and my father went to enroll my sister and myself in the local public school. They asked him where he was from and he said "California" because he was born there. They told him his kids would be automatically put back a year. He explained that we had not been going to school in California, so we weren't put back. (The school there was inferior to the one we had been attending, a parochial school in Texas. Fortunately in the fall we were able to attend a parochial school again.)

So already in the 1950s California schools had a bad reputation at least in some parts of the country.