I wish they would have paired this with a rule that no one who (a) does not have kids and/or (b) had kids who are not now less than 40 years old, can vote for the school board.
Living in San Francisco, our schools are continuously being destroyed by fuzzy headed progressives who are less interested in the quality of education, and more in using the schools to message about society. The kids, and families who can’t afford to send their kids to private schools are the ones who loose.
I guess the republicans are in favor of taxation without representation.
“People are really fearful because the Trump administration is perceived to be very anti-immigrant,”
Also, fire is perceived to be hot, and water is perceived to be wet.
You’ve described this San Franciscan. I’ll admit I vote for incumbents, and I hope I’ve done no harm.
There are loads of documented non-citizens in this country so in a place the size of SF, this should provide a fairly sizable group to vote. It makes sense for parents to vote for people involved in the education of their children. Historically, many places let non-citizens, especially those on the road to citizenship, to vote in various instances. We are not just talking undocumented here, at any rate. To take an example, if the journalist recently murdered by Saudi Arabia had a child in SF, he could have voted, I gather.
(I’m pretending, of course, that he resided in the area.)
I ask my chinese and Japanese friends with kids in the school who is decent. It almost always lines up with whomever gets the go to “liberal” endorsements - Feinstein, Pelosi, and now Weiner.
I’m not going to vote for anyone who does not have liberal credentials, and there may be quibbles about the two women you cited and probably none with Weiner, but voting for any one who’s a member of today’s R party is unthinkable.
This hits very close to home for me. I’m in Silicon Valley, where we have a substantial percentage of residents not yet citizens. Working on school funding issues, it can be very frustrating that our parents cannot vote!
At the same time, I find that many of our (local) educated recent immigrants have very different values than I do when it comes to civil rights. They are exactly the opposite of people who would vote reflexively for liberals.
We have residents who unashamedly decide which kids should go to their ‘prestigious’ public high school based on checking last names for ethnicity (i.e., race).
So I feel cautious extending voting rights to folks who have not yet committed to this country.
I think that if you are paying tuition you should be allowed to vote.
Taxes are paying for schools, so taxpayers (including non citizens) are paying tuition.
This is why Trump can not vote. He doesn’t pay taxes.