It was the mid-1970s. Dr. West and his colleague, Dick Brislawn, taught the California Heritage course at the late, great Lowell High School… which the anti-tax crusaders had closed down in 1980. Shame on you then, too!

After one summer as a student, I served as a teachers aid for another two summers. I learned more about California’s and, specifically, southern California’s history than in any other class. To this day, I recall clearly the instruction and experience.

Dr. West and several other teachers at Lowell enthused me to continue on in the social sciences, and they have my undying gratitude for that.

For anybody to say he doesn’t deserve a $100,000/year pension after forty years of service to the district is an idiot. He dedicated and gave his life to educating the district’s students. What ingrate would deny him a retirement after so much worthy public service!

I was watching a documentary on PBS, you know the television program that gets federal funds and has boring fundraisers, they seem to have a anti-prop13 stance and a interviewer from PBS tried to imply that schools who fund raise to offset the budget cutbacks is immoral possibly illegal.
The school in a middle class neighborhood and the school in the inner city school area get the same funding but the difference is that the parents in the middle class school are pro active in the fund raising.
It was not a PTA organization it was strictly parents who worked hard.
I feel that for that interviewer trying to imply and trying get the parents to see that fund raising immoral and illegal is ridiculous.
What they need to do in those “pobre” schools is to train the parents that they too can be empowered to do fund raising. Another thing which is a disadvantage is many of these very same people who have children who attend these poor schools are living on “the underground economy” so the city gets no revenue, county gets no revenue and still has to pay for the social programs.
So go ahead a pay your gardener, your housekeeper and babysitter cash, go ahead a rent the room above the garage for cash it is all the same underground economy just remember they may be triple dipping with welfare, HUD and all the fundraising on your back.

The welfare mentality is also strong in the pensioners
and the school administrators etc. they are not about to b*tch about anyone else who abuses the system. They will make cuts on staff so that they can keep plugging along till they get their retirement.

So we get screwed from the higher ups and the “pobres” take the cue, no wonder the middle class is exausted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msJiBOXF5BQ

Thanks so much guys for your supposed conservatism. Just smoke blown you know where.

fullerton lifer :Precious tax dollars that should have been saved for the predicted depressed economy was stolen to fund these pensions.

Very true. Waste and mismanagement run rampant in each little branch of Fullerton government. The pension debacle will be the most costly manefestation of the whole scam.

Spen off the pensions and cancel that benefit, if the current employee’s quit, hire from the many people looking for a job.