Yep, Stockton Stinks
No one mentioned education. I was a public school teacher, turned stay at home mom, now looking to get out of Stockton. The education system is so poor here. Test scores need to be up so the children that get addressed are the children below grade level. The children at or above grade level aren't being given the opportunity to advance or excell because they are generally ignored in the classroom. It is really a sad state. On any given day you can read why Stockton Unified can't do their job - money, parents, whatever. They never look at themselves, their educational structure or how they can improve. The last straw happened when Stockton voted to have a third tax assessment on our property for Stockton Unified. The Stockton Unified Superintendent (an outsider from Berkeley) came here and worked for two years, making over $200,000 a year and complains that parents don't help their children with homework. You know what? Then don't send any home. If teachers revamp how they run their classroom, they don't need to send homework home. I can teach my children in about 2 to 3 hours a day at home. Public school is about six hours long. Hmmmmm.
I agree with career choices in the area. Just last week or early this week in the Stockton Record, some outsider is going to bring in "warehouse" business. Oh, good, buy up a lot of our land and slap a bunch of warehouses on them.
Who is going to move to Stockton with all the crime, lack of job opportunities, type of job opportunities, lack of education, et cetera. No companies will relocate here because their employees won't send their children to our poor school and they won't live in crime-ridden neighborhoods. Our children won't even be able to work for these high tech companies because they won't be educated. What a shame.
Our lovely mayor is thinking about taking over some part of PG&E to save the citizens money. The Record quoted that it could cost the Stockton $368 million to do that. If the city has $368 million burning a whole in its pocket, then I shouldn't see any graffiti, we should have police on every corner, trash on the streets and freeways should be picked up, the city departments should have more money to run their departments effectively, and perhaps, set aside some for some type of educational reform. Invest in the citizens not these outsiders that come in, rape the city of funds or land, and then leave, citing Stocktonians as the reason.
The city has a long economic recovery process from that arena, ball park, and the many other money pit pet projects the city council has approved.
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03-11-2008, 02:26 PM
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