06-06-2023, 01:48 PM
(06-06-2023, 12:45 PM)Dill Wrote: SSF's links above to Newsome's attempts to zone affordable housing into being sound like well-intentioned efforts to help people who are not wealthy, though they generate anger by going against "community preferences." Following Bels, it looks like many of these CA debates are registering a class conflict which Americans have not learned to recognize as such.
You know what they say about the road to hell.
Quote:A final note--CA has also a large proportion of non-native speakers, homeless and other problems not faced by other states not on the Mexican border. That has to affect measurement of educational results too.
That's certainly an issue as well, as the need for ESL teachers often exceeds the supply. It's not just Spanish either, we have very large immigrant communities from numerous nations. Also, there are kids who come from areas of Central America (and South to a far lesser extent) that speak a native infused version of Spanish. When I worked in a detention facility there was always a group of guys who the other Spanish speakers could barely, if at all, understand.
