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Old 10-23-2013, 10:14 AM
 
Location: New Orleans
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You know what's weird about LA's diversity, if you're raising kids in the city (or Valley) is that the cultures and races still stay SEPARATE. This isn't something I'm making up, but what I noticed living there and seeing the kids catching the bus.

All of the asians hungout with other asians, armenians with other armenians, blacks with other blacks, hispanics with other hispanics, etc. I found this to be super strange. At least in NYC, the different cultures are friends with one another and actually hangout do things together.

I guess if you can place your son in some sort of private school it might be different.
I don't think so...I grew up with all types of friends from all types of races. But what do I know, I've only lived here most of my life. I feel like the real segregation comes from the "Entertainment" crowds. They act like nobody is from LA & have way a different view than LA natives on relationships even though they live in their Hollywood bubble.
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Old 10-23-2013, 10:22 AM
 
Location: So Ca
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Out of date. This is from mid-2012. A lot has changed since then. Have you followed anything since the recent election, like passing of prop 30?
Not that much has changed. It's getting better for existing teachers (those with tenure), not new ones. And Prop 30 was to close a budget shortfall.

"Teacher layoffs shrank to the lowest number since the recession began in 2008, with about 1,300 teachers, librarians, counselors and other public school employees receiving final layoff notifications by the May 15 (2013) deadline, according to the California Teachers Association."
http://jobmarketmonitor.com/2013/06/...omic-downturn/

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Old 10-23-2013, 02:09 PM
 
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Not that much has changed. It's getting better for existing teachers (those with tenure), not new ones. And Prop 30 was to close a budget shortfall.

"Teacher layoffs shrank to the lowest number since the recession began in 2008, with about 1,300 teachers, librarians, counselors and other public school employees receiving final layoff notifications by the May 15 (2013) deadline, according to the California Teachers Association."
California / Teacher layoffs lowest since economic downturn | Job Market Monitor
I got my foot in the door at a local community college after Novembers election, and the number of courses I'm teaching this upcoming year is double that of my first year. So, something is helping.
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Old 10-23-2013, 02:33 PM
 
Location: So Ca
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I got my foot in the door at a local community college after Novembers election, and the number of courses I'm teaching this upcoming year is double that of my first year. So, something is helping.
Maybe. I believe you've mentioned that you have a masters and several years of teaching adjunct courses at a CC which, if this OP has, she didn't mention. It's a very tough market for teachers who are new to CA.
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Old 10-23-2013, 02:42 PM
 
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]I don't think so...I grew up with all types of friends from all types of races. But what do I know, I've only lived here most of my life.[/b] I feel like the real segregation comes from the "Entertainment" crowds. They act like nobody is from LA & have way a different view than LA natives on relationships even though they live in their Hollywood bubble.
I don't doubt you. I'm just going by what I saw living in LA for SEVERAL years.

I didn't GROW UP there.
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Old 10-23-2013, 03:22 PM
 
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Diversity usually means a place where the neighborhood is "mixed". At least this is what I call it.

I mean living in an all ONE RACE/CULTURE neighborhood is BORING.
Most people must like living in boring neighborhoods because most people like living with their own kind.

Blacks and Whites Favor Same-Race Neighborhoods | Segregation | LiveScience

The Myth of The Diverse City | Planetizen: The Urban Planning, Design, and Development


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Old 10-23-2013, 03:39 PM
 
Location: New Orleans
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I don't doubt you. I'm just going by what I saw living in LA for SEVERAL years.

I didn't GROW UP there.
I understand...just found it weird you gave an example of how LA is segregated by looking at kids taking a bus. I mean, looking at who is mixing with who is way more complicated than that. Especially with kids in LA cause there is so much mingling outside of school. I feel like Adult transplants segregate themselves more than Native LA people too. They all want to live in West LA & NELA cause everywhere else is "ghetto". As a Native, I could care less if I was in Watts, I'll find a way to feel comfortable.
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Old 10-23-2013, 04:22 PM
 
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Maybe. I believe you've mentioned that you have a masters and several years of teaching adjunct courses at a CC which, if this OP has, she didn't mention. It's a very tough market for teachers who are new to CA.
You are correct, but my experience was outside California. This was by break teaching IN California for the first time. Yes it wasn't easy, it took patience and scraping by, but the slight improvement in the situation I'm sure had a lot to do with "break". Adjuncts actually get paid fairly well per credit hr in California but it does take a lot more networking, asking around, etc. than it might elsewhere.
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Old 10-23-2013, 08:08 PM
 
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I understand...just found it weird you gave an example of how LA is segregated by looking at kids taking a bus. I mean, looking at who is mixing with who is way more complicated than that. Especially with kids in LA cause there is so much mingling outside of school. I feel like Adult transplants segregate themselves more than Native LA people too. They all want to live in West LA & NELA cause everywhere else is "ghetto". As a Native, I could care less if I was in Watts, I'll find a way to feel comfortable.

It wasn't just the kids. It was all over the place.

The only people who didn't self-segregate were the transplants, so you are right about this. To ME, it seemed that most native LA folks preferred to be around their own kind, even if they didn't have to be.
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Old 10-23-2013, 08:11 PM
 
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I don't believe the above. Who are they talking to? They didn't ask ME nor anyone I know.

I don't want to live in a non-diverse neighborhood in 2013. It's stupid to ME and backwards.
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