Any well run place (usually leaning right) will be prosperous, drawing in many from the poorly run places (i.e. California) who hope to do well...problem is, the newcomers bring in their old style politics (which caused the problem in the first place), infecting the new place with the old crap.
I saw this happen in CO. Daughter and family moved to near-by Denver in 1995 from Ventura County, CA. Each visit to her I sensed a change in demogaphics (clerks in stores, fast food places etc).
And then the variety of candidates for various offices were emerging. . .
However, CO daughter’s kids’ schools are superior to the ones I know about here.
Especially because another daughter who has taught for 25 years here, has been in her neice and nephews’ CO schools. She agrees.
If she were to talk to her co-teachers about what she observed in the current CO school these kids attend, she feels she would barely be believed.
In the next second she would be believed, but/and her co-teachers would exclaim “UNbelievable!’
When I visited my g-kids CO schools, what I observed, for one thing, the teachers are visibly non-stressed, and more satisfied appearing! Teacher-daughter was just there on a quick visit and reported the SAME thing, not knowing I had these exact observations!
To also say nothing about having REAL auditoriums with stages, and real cafeterias, not these gosh-awful cafetoriums.
And indoor halls versus our outside halls. Come on - CA is not the tropics - I have seen our own 4 kids annoyed/bothered with wind, rain and cold temperatures as they eat lunch outdoors (with the seagulls, 10 miles from the ocean), and traverse to classes. And take their business to dreaded freezing bathrooms - heard about that recently from a 50 year old daughter of her school experiences here! Her sisters chimed in. From kindergarten through high school.
Of course they all survived, but what negative experiences to remember/recall!
In this day and age. Because nothing has changed in these exact same schools.
CAlifornia kids don’t know what they are missing, of course, but some of us do.