26. Pool Party

Temecula Base Camp:

There is a big public swimming pool in a park near our apartment and we walk by there almost every day we are in our Base Camp.


There was a lot of unusual activity there a few weeks ago--three fifth grades from a single  public school across town were having an end-of-the-year-and-going-to-a-new-school-next-year party. Not exactly a graduation party, but a moving-on celebration for sure.


A disk jockey was there and the kids were strutting their stuff in bikinis and with wild abandon. Looked like good fun to me.


But I was also kind of wondering: THREE fifth grade classes in just  ONE of this rapidly growing town's SEVENTEEN elementary schools. I think they have a few over 30 kids in a classroom now, but lets just say 30 times three is ninety for short.


Ninety kids  about 13 years old in just ONE of the seventeen elementary schools in Temecula. 

They will all be getting their driver's licenses in about three or four years--that means about a hundred more cars on the freeway from this ONE elementary school and there are how many elementary schools in California?


And more JOBS needed  and HOUSING and, in about six or seven years, MORE KIDS from these kids.

Man, this is trouble BIG TIME.

It is time for us to "grab the bull by the tail and face the situation". 

So many more people so fast...

Something has GOT to change!

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