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antiquie

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12. This is why Jerry Brown was against Prop 13

Reply to marybourg (Reply #3)

Wed Jan 16, 2013, 12:23 PM

Jan 2013

and why many of us voted for the alternative proposition. It was actually Jerry Brown who warned us of these consequences to education if 13 passed.

The people were fooled. It was easier back then and it still happens today.

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California drops to 49th in school spending in annual Ed Week report [View all] Starry Messenger Jan 2013 OP

Yay California! ellisonz Jan 2013 #1

Having been educated in California pre-Jarvis/Gann Betsy Ross Jan 2013 #2

Thia is what the people of California voted for when they voted for prop 13. marybourg Jan 2013 #3

Not everyone alive now was old enough to vote Starry Messenger Jan 2013 #5

No, of course not, but actions have consequences long into the future and marybourg Jan 2013 #6

I was born in 1970. Starry Messenger Jan 2013 #7

Then you're nearly young enough to be my grand-child and while I certainly don't marybourg Jan 2013 #15

What was the purpose of derailing this thread with Starry Messenger Jan 2013 #16

1) Because I had something to say. 2) I did not derail the thread, I furthered it. marybourg Jan 2013 #19

LOL. Starry Messenger Jan 2013 #20

Your generation? Le Taz Hot Jan 2013 #9

People younger than both of us put it over the top Dude. Starry Messenger Jan 2013 #11

This is why Jerry Brown was against Prop 13 antiquie Jan 2013 #12

I find it hard to believe that people were fooled. No one I knew was. What could they possibly marybourg Jan 2013 #13

I don't know antiquie Jan 2013 #14

Resentment against new people moving in (The shut-the-gate marybourg Jan 2013 #17

I see. antiquie Jan 2013 #18

Well, if more people had voted like you, 2 generations of California children marybourg Jan 2013 #21

And Utah has abnormally large class sizes KamaAina Jan 2013 #4

'Member when Jerry Brown Announced Recently Le Taz Hot Jan 2013 #8

Jerry did not do it. antiquie Jan 2013 #10