Reply #36: That would heavily depend [View All]

[Ally McLesbian]

on where in SoCal she moved.

The average SoCal school district is very impoverished thanks to the starving that's been going on since the late 1970s.

A few districts, primarily in rich areas, do get some good funding, and those places are superb.

I went to school in one of those "superb" districts - Arcadia, next to Pasadena. Arcadia gets its funding from the Santa Anita Racetrack revenues, so the residents get a good school system without having to pay much in property taxes. This "gain without pain" proved extremely attractive to nouveau-rich Asians, primarily from Taiwan; the hyper-competition between these Asian students drove up the caliber of education in Arcadia even higher. Sometimes the students knew more than the poorly paid teachers, in fact! I feel fortunate that I could keep up and graduate in the top 3% of my class, without having to resort to Japanese-style jukus that all my classmates attended!