The recent discussion about the 22 million dollar bond to upgrade Cardiff Elementary school has again crystalized for me the issue of a fiefdom within the city of Encinitas. It has long been overlooked that the Cardiff Elementary School District is distinct within the state of California for its underenrollment and high cost per student, and its independence as a district operating within a district. Comparing data available from the California Department of Education, it's obvious the disparity between Cardiff School District and Encinitas Union Elementary School District.
Encinitas Union Elementary enrollment by grade: link
Cardiff Elementary District enrollment by grade: link
It's time for an open discussion about the opportunities available for our elementary school students within the city of Encinitas and for our students to enjoy a broader distribution of the resources available within our community. As Cardiff Elementary school is rebuilt, let's look closer at fully utilizing the facility rather than limiting enrollment to small number of students residing within the fiefdom of the Cardiff Elementary School District.
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Cardiff schools separate but equal?
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No, leave it as it is.
ReplyDeleteCardiff taxpayers are paying for the bond. If Encinitas wants better schools, they can pay for their own bond. Cardiff is it's own district, not a district within EUSD. City boundaries and school district boundaries are not the same and don't need to be. San Dieguito School District includes parts of Carlsbad and San Diego, and all of Encinitas, Solana Beach, and Del Mar. Beware of what you wish for, you may not like your district being fully utilized by students from Oceanside, Carlsbad, and San Marcos.
ReplyDeleteAll the cited data indicates is that Cardiff has two schools K-3 and 3-6 so yes, in each school a higher percentage enrollment for each grade than Encinitas which does not split grades this way. The Cardiff district is K-6 and as a district the enrollments distribution by grade is similar to Encinitas.
ReplyDeleteYes the class sizes are similar for both the Cardiff and Encinitas districts across the K-6 spectrum, the numbers just seem skewed because Cardiff has the K- 6 split into two different schools so 100% is split between K-3 at one and 3 - 6 at the other. The author of this story didn't understand the stats apparently. When compared to K 12 districts the stats are also quite different because the % is spread through 13 grades, not 7 like an elementary only district.
Delete“Beware of what you wish for, you may not like your district being fully utilized by students from Oceanside, Carlsbad, and San Marcos.”
ReplyDeleteI’m not a canine, but I can hear your dog whistle loud and clear. WT actual F?
I think he's talking about the mexicans.
DeleteMS-13 is mostly in elementary schools.
DeleteFact.
Have you ever been raped by a second grader? If school districts merge, you will be.
Sorry, clearly my point was made poorly given the interpretation you've made. My point was that the philosophy of sharing sounds all good and nice when you want to share with someone who has something you perceive as better than what you have. But, are you willing to share with someone who has less? I certainly did not intend to imply anything about the demographics of other districts, just their relative affluence. Merging is all good and nice, but when we merge across larger areas, those who think they want to merge many not.
DeleteOr, your kid may grow up with an awareness and appreciation for the struggles they personally don’t have. They may learn that the kid in class who is just as smart won’t go to college because their family can’t afford it. They may become thankful for what they have been given as an accident of birth, and they may become more compassionate as an adult.
DeleteAward goes to 3:28 for working in a bogus reference to MS-13 when discussing the Cardiff School District. Please pick up your award at the John Birch Meeting Hall...
DeleteAs a bonus lession:
DeleteThe Mara Salvatrucha gang originated in Los Angeles, set up in the 1980s by Salvadoran immigrants in the city's Pico-Union neighborhood who immigrated to the United States after the Central American civil wars of the 1980s. (Note: The Civil War was in part caused by the U.S. backing of the Salvadoran government).
1:47 is missing the satire detection gene.
DeleteYou know...I don't think he or she is. I think you got dogpiled on and now you're trying to back up. Not working.
DeleteRaped by a second grader.
DeleteLet that sink in.
I broke a rule. Never explain the jokes.
DeleteMerges between distant districts is not such a good idea for the concepts of neighborhood schools and parent participation. Of course the bus ride might be good for the kids because everybody who has been to school knows that the ass is the organ or learning.
ReplyDeleteClearly the contributor does not live in Cardiff and wants to get something for nothing! Funny how community character is so important in defining the housing issue, but somehow it's not relevant when teaching our communities youth. But you have to love 3:56's comment - what - there are no struggling parents in Cardiff? Ever drive through Park Place or some of the older twin homes west of the 5? Really?!??!
ReplyDelete- The Sculpin
Sculpin, do us a favor. Open Zillow and search 92007 zip code. Sort the list from cheapest to most expensive. Tell us: how many homes are for sale under a million dollars.
DeleteI found four.
Well, 5:15, your internet research skills are unparalleled! Now I challenge you to walk the neighborhoods and see the families that actually live there. Look for the Tiny Tykes play sets strew across the yards, the "stuffed to the gills" garages, the older cars leaking oil, surfboards piled up on the side yard - you know - the renters! I can easily get to 30. No go to Cardiff Elem or Ada Harris and check out all parents picking up their kids. You'll see a few walkers, some older cars and maybe a bike or two in between all those late model MBZ's, beemers and what have you.
Delete- The Sculpin
Okay Sculp. Your point is made.
DeleteYou can retreat to Olivenhain, comforted by the belief that you proved that gentrification is not changing Cardiff into a homogeneous upper-middle-class coastal enclave.
The rest of us will stay here in reality.
Oh please - I've been hearing that since the '70's. I remember folks complaining that a Napa winery heir bought a historic home 3 lots from the beach for the exorbitant sum of $249,000 - damn, now the neighborhood was all shot to hell, and no one would be able to afford to live at the beach anymore. So tell me - what's changed????
Delete- The Sculpin
Sculpinhead spouts off again - tedious dribble as usual.
DeleteYou mean "drivel."
DeleteAwe......my fans are back!
DeleteCheck out this link and how it deals with the problem of gentrification:
https://newrepublic.com/article/144260/stop-gentrification
Here's a little tid bit - but I suspect may here would have a problem with his approach:
York to Barcelona to Cape Town, grassroots movements have proposed, wherever possible, decommodifying housing—seeking to transform it from real estate into home, as David Madden and Peter Marcuse sum it up in their 2016 book In Defense of Housing. Steps along the way can include everything from enacting and strengthening rent control laws to taking land off the speculative market using community land trusts. Grassroots groups nationwide and internationally have long been fighting on these terms and, little by little, gaining ground. For gentrifiers conflicted about their own role in the process, there is no more straightforward answer than to recognize your own stake in these fights and join in. Your outrageous rent is not only making your life hell, it’s driving up everyone else’s, too. When you organize to reduce it, everyone wins.
But the fight against gentrification must go a step further. At its core, it demands a robust defense of the public sector—including, perhaps especially, public housing.
- The Sculpin
"Tell us: how many homes are for sale under a million dollars."
DeleteAlmost ALL of Park Place homes and townhomes would sell for under a million. That's over 600 right there.
It's simple. If there is space available for additional students within the Cardiff Elementary School District those slots should be available to other children within the Encinitas community as interdistrict transfers. It's not about turf, it's about utilizing available resources within the community for the benefit of children.
ReplyDelete*should* be available as interdistrict transfers is debatable on the surface. Either way, a transfer should be required to pay a share of whatever school bonds Cardiff residents are bound to pay before there is even a discussion. No freebies.
DeleteOut of district may include everything out of district, by lottery or other objective way.
DeleteDon't think you want to do that.
This is still a public school, is it not?
ReplyDeleteSounding a bit private, or wishing so, with some of these comments. Any Betsy Devoss sp fans out there?
dumb dumb says what?
DeleteWe agree on Devoss, then.
DeleteThe money for education that is squandered by entrenched administrative leeches is abysmal.
ReplyDeleteEducation monies should be primarily directed to teachers and their students. Yea right. Dream on.
Any delving into what this corrupt system takes away from teachers and their students leaves little for educating our students and paying our dedicated teachers what they are worth.