From temporary transfers to fussy fights over teacher
tenure, LA Unified is continuing to tease taxpayers and school staff with
stop-gap reforms that do not make our schools better, serve and protect our
youth, or inform and involve parents.
Not redemption, but procrastination qualifies the wrangling
which shuttles students from one failing school to the next, with no discernible
move toward school choice or streamlined procedures to discipline and dismiss
unqualified or immoral personnel.
After one year following his forced “golden handshake”, Mark
Berndt’s alleged perversions went public,
then allegations erupted all over the district. Parents were justifiably
outraged. Moving every teacher at Miramonte Elementary to another school just
perpetuated the “rubber-room” reaction of overkill that follows the district’s disturbing
yet hardly surprising lack of oversight.
Hope is a hopeless policy without scaling back compulsory attendance.
Faith in the public school system without systemic change makes a laughingstock
of hope.
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