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Mountain View approves 10,000 homes by Google's North Bayshore project (2017)

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adrianN wrote: post #106
thaumasiotes wrote: post #45

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> I have no idea how a teacher would be able to live in SV and plan to have a family and everything else. The math teacher at my high school in Santa Cruz was a retired electrical engineer with a Ph.D. from Stanford. There's no rule that says teachers need to make a living from teaching. It's known for being pleasant work. Granted, the school hasn't pursued that strategy since then...

Every job we as a society want done should pay a living wage. Teaching children definitely is one of them.

If retirees prefer teaching to watching TV, and everyone is happy with their performance as teachers, they should be stopped from doing it because somebody else could have earned more doing the same work less satisfactorily?

Re: Mountain View approves 10,000 homes by Google's North Bayshore project (2017)

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Post by distances »

adrianN wrote: post #106
thaumasiotes wrote: post #45

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> I have no idea how a teacher would be able to live in SV and plan to have a family and everything else. The math teacher at my high school in Santa Cruz was a retired electrical engineer with a Ph.D. from Stanford. There's no rule that says teachers need to make a living from teaching. It's known for being pleasant work. Granted, the school hasn't pursued that strategy since then...

Every job we as a society want done should pay a living wage. Teaching children definitely is one of them.

Interestingly in Germany teachers often earn more than software developers. I wonder how some countries end up appreciating teaching so much higher?

To be noted though, it's a specific Master's degree that's required to be a fully qualified teacher.

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Post by distances »

stephencanon wrote: post #123
closeparen wrote: post #101

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Agreed, but >There would also be kids, who need to be transported to schools. We should be building neighborhoods such that kids can walk to school. Even my single-family-home dominated 2.5 square mile "village" could manage that.

Yeah, 10k homes is more than enough to support a school of it's own. They shouldn't need to be bused anywhere until middle or high school.

10k apartments (20-30k residents?) is plenty enough for a high school too

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tmnvix wrote: post #205
asteli wrote: post #177

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The more I dig into this, the less I realize I know. I asked, "did the slums exist before the highways and freeways that divide them from the wealthy whites?" The best I've come up with is "Sort of." Apparently, in the 50's and 60s, city officials throughout the US thought of urban freeways as "a good opportunity to get rid of the local 'niggertown.'"[1] But that attempt at clearing the local slums ended up further d…

The Guardian published a good story on this just today: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/feb/21/roads-nowhere...

I appreciate the mention of West Oakland. I walked past Esther's Orbit Room on my way to work today. A derelict jazz club, a holdover from the time when West Oakland was flush with money and culture brought from all over by the people who worked the railways.

That was before the Cypress freeway tore West Oakland in two, or 980 sheared it away from downtown Oakland, or the trans-bay BART tracks, or before the USPS distribution center was built. The last, for those not familiar, is a 6 story concrete windowless menace that I've started calling the "Ministry of Truth."

Slums exist because the privileged spent a century paving over neighborhoods filled with people that they wished would just stop existing.

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