High school or homeless shelter?
Zachary Faria
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High school students have to deal with many challenges: figuring out what they want to do in life, working through body image issues, ignoring the homeless people shooting up drugs on their lunch tables.
Well, maybe that last one is more California-exclusive than the others.
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Such is the case at KIPP San Jose Collegiate, a charter high school in the Bay Area. Several students took the issue to their district board, claiming that the school has had to deal with homeless people in their bathrooms, their athletic facilities, and “doing drugs on the lunch table.”
It may not be the glamorous high school experience from High School Musical, but it is equally unforgettable. Where else but California could you go through the challenges of high school while also having to worry about homeless people trashing facilities and leaving used needles where you are just trying to eat your sandwich?
On a related note, would this be considered better or worse than schools in East Oakland having to deal with prostitutes working the streets right across the road? Perhaps Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), a Bay Area native himself, could give us an answer when he finally decides to stop obsessing over Florida.
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As it turns out, California’s strategy of letting homeless people live and defecate wherever they want and then throwing millions at programs to let them do drugs in public has not been a resounding success. To be fair, neither have California schools, given the state’s track record on education. Perhaps this is all some unorthodox plan to increase test scores that we simply do not understand.
Maybe that will help these students be at peace the next time they happen upon a vagrant on their trip to the restroom.