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If you want more children in the city, then you need to invest in them. We spend more money per homeless person than we do per child in this city. Imagine the school system we could have if we invested at the same level that we do for our homeless population. I have raised 3 children in this city. I had to pull them out of public school when it became obvious they were falling years behind. (This was one of the better public schools in the city ) If we had a decent public school system, imagine what types of citizens we could draw to this city. Currently, we are only drawing homeless and illegal immigrants. These people don’t generally pay taxes. It is middle class families that bring stability and flush tax revenues to any community. I know of many parent that would love to live in the City, but go to Walnut Creek, Palo Alto or Pleasanton instead because of their public school systems. I don’t blame them. I pay an extra 50,000 a year to send my kids to private school. I haven’t figured out why I am still here.
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