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America Has Too Many Schools
www.wsj.com ^ | May 9, 2024 | By Sara Randazzo and Matt Barnum

Posted on 05/15/2024 12:42:33 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19

—In a huge city awash with tiny schools, few are smaller than the Hilda L. Solis Learning Academy.

The public high school, housed in a former hospital in East Los Angeles, is down to 170 students from the surrounding Latino neighborhoods. On a hallway bulletin board, handwritten hearts display reasons students love the school, including, “how everyone knows each other” and “the fact that school is small.”

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To: ridesthemiles
"MY HS grad class was 93"

Mine was 15...

21 posted on 05/15/2024 2:55:42 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (NRA Life Member)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Went to my 50th HS reunion last summer. They tore down the old HS and built this huge new one with as many facilities as a small college.

When I went there, there were 1400 students in grades 10-12. The town had two JrHSs, grades 7-9. Now, they had to make HS grades 9-12, and they still have fewer than 1200 students. They also had to close one JrHS and put all of the town’s 7th and 8th graders in one place.

The population of the town is about 25% larger now, too, just fewer kids.


22 posted on 05/15/2024 3:03:36 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.)
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To: ridesthemiles

Same as biden.
Oh wait.. you meant 1993.


23 posted on 05/15/2024 3:07:28 PM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in 5.)
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To: hanamizu

The Catholic K-8 school I attended in the 60s had 800 students. They now have 160.


24 posted on 05/15/2024 3:10:05 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Wonder Warthog

I think mine was around 730. It was the smallest class of the 4 in the HS at the time. Being unknown to administrators can have perks. Got busted going in late with my girlfriend. Pretended to be her brother dropping her off late due to “girl issues”. No one wants to ask questions when you bring up Menstral cramps, hygiene products…. So it worked. I did have to sneak into my classes halfway through the day.


25 posted on 05/15/2024 3:13:09 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Censored!)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Just looked up the HS I graduated from in L.B. Cal. More students, but they’ve added 9th grade. Graduating class is 11% smaller. And for some reason they’ve added the name ‘Classical’ to the school’s name, which to me is a ‘tell’.


26 posted on 05/15/2024 3:29:13 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: DIRTYSECRET

British Columbia has what is in sense a voucher system - funding goes from the Ministry to private schools. Only 50% roughly of the cost to educate a kid at public school but its something. I’m happy my child comes home not confused as to what their pronouns are.


27 posted on 05/15/2024 3:59:41 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: RomanSoldier19

Every home should be a school. Every school building should become a warehouse.


28 posted on 05/15/2024 4:20:08 PM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: mass55th

“And not enough prisons”

Prisons are expensive and should only be used when no suitable alternative exists.

I have advocated for penalty time rooms (say 100 hours to be spent in one within the next 30 days) and for things like arm and leg penalty weights. Penalty time rooms allow people to keep jobs and eliminate the need to provide prison health care for participants.


29 posted on 05/15/2024 4:20:29 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“Vouchers are the answer. Leads to school choice 100%.”

I tend to think that parental school taxes should be creditable to private school tuition.

Instead of handing out expensive vouchers (~$12,000), we would hand back the parents’ property tax payments (~$3,000 - $6,000). In this way, schools would get created on a lower cost basis and initially sold by market forces to the higher property tax-paying (and earning) parents.


30 posted on 05/15/2024 4:32:05 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin
"Prisons are expensive and should only be used when no suitable alternative exists."

I worked in uniform in NY State's prisons for 25 years. In the early 80's, I saw Gov. Mario Cuomo close multiple psych centers, and the mentally ill thrown on the street, only to show up in the prison system, which created an even bigger headache for staff. Andrew Cuomo closed a prison or two when he was first elected Governor. One of them had been a school for the mentally retarded before being turned into a prison. It's about 20 minutes from me. In March 2021, Cuomo and Hochul closed at least 6 prisons in the State, not to mention the fact that they released hundreds of convicts to the streets during Covid, none of which were made to complete their court-ordered sentences. And Hochul is closing at least six more prisons this year, tossing even more convicts onto the street in order to make room for those from the prisons she is closing. She is playing musical chairs with convicted felons, and roulette with the lives of innocent citizens. Prisons are being closed because criminals aren't being locked up anymore, so RAT-controlled states can give the illusion that crime is down. Crime isn't down. It's just being swept under the carpet and covered up. When I was in uniform, we always told the public to remember that not all the criminals are behind bars. That saying is even more relevant today.

31 posted on 05/15/2024 5:26:38 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Brian Griffin

As Richard Pryor said, “Thank God we got Penitentiaries!”


32 posted on 05/15/2024 5:27:27 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: tcox4575

Good job.


33 posted on 05/15/2024 5:28:39 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (The Bible speaks truth! Don't believe it, you do so at your own peril. You'd better be right!!)
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To: RomanSoldier19

America has one too many newspapers.


34 posted on 05/15/2024 7:09:05 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands. )
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To: RomanSoldier19

America has too many Teacher’s Unions. One is too many.


35 posted on 05/16/2024 7:03:51 AM PDT by Boomer (If the Nazi-Rats and Rinos win, everyone loses. The Uniparty can no longer claim they are American.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Continuing proof from Upstate NY...

https://cnycentral.com/news/local/syracuse-school-board-says-they-will-only-provide-us-written-statements-moving-forward#

Check out the attitude public employees have toward their cash cows...er, taxpayers.


36 posted on 05/21/2024 5:00:31 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: RomanSoldier19

More schools, more administrators


37 posted on 05/21/2024 5:03:21 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Way too many administration offices in my county. One county with 5 administration offices.

One office could administer all county schools. Maybe add a person or two to process additional payables and payroll.


38 posted on 05/21/2024 5:15:02 AM PDT by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after the rain started.)
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To: mass55th
And not enough prisons.

I'll second that!

39 posted on 05/21/2024 5:18:22 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: cyclotic

Too many schools are essentially student warehouses.


40 posted on 05/21/2024 5:20:21 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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