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California came in dead last among the states.

This is really pathetic. California came in behind Mississippi and Alabama and Arkansas? What a wonderful legacy for Gray Davis.

80 and 100 years ago when we had massive waves of immigration, schools faced the same problems they do today. parents didn't speak English, parents were working like dogs to survive, kids were on their own, disease was rampart, poverty was the norm...yet our public schools worked. Better than today.Teachers whine about parents and kids now. Imagine what it was like in 1912.

I don't know what government teachers think. We pay them to do a job and all we hear is bitching. If they don't like the pay, if they don't like the kids, if they don't like the parents, they should go do something else. A member of any other occupation who blamed the customer for their failure would be out of business in a week.