HERE'S A COMMENT SOMEONE POSTED ON A WIDELY READ AND INFLUENTIAL LOS ANGELES POLITICAL BLOG MAYOR SAM'S BLOG It's regarding the upcoming LAUSD School Board Elections on March 6, 2007. Go to Mayor Sam's blog to read more on the elections.
Anonymous said, You fight the good fight. You fight it because you don't know how not to. How to stare at injustice and ignore it. It's just not possible.
To see how our schools are being politicized for self-aggrandizing megalomaniacs is sickening. Every day, thousands of teachers walk into classrooms where 700,000 students look to them for help in understanding the world in which they live. Everyday, those teachers are fighting the good fight.
But it grows increasingly hard. Are there bad teachers? Of course. I sit on the hiring committee at my school. We are one of the most desirable schools in the city. For every opening, we are lucky to have one qualified applicant. According to the No Child Left Behind law, if we have two candidates we must choose the qualified one even if the other is better.
Our teaching population is aging. Over 1/3 will retire in the next 10 years. One out of every two new teachers leaves this district in the first five years. CSUN, the teacher factory for the city is a shadow of it’s former self, pumping out an ever decreasing supply of new blood for our profession. We are importing teachers from other countries.
Where does it end? My children will attend LAUSD schools for the next 15 years.
I have no faith in this Mayor or his muppets. They are political hacks, the lot of them. They seek to use the lives of 700,000 kids for their own political gain. Take Galatzan. How can I trust someone to lead me in educational reform when she only began to show interest a year and a half ago. How can I trust someone to reduce the hundreds of millions downtown spends each year on consultants, when her husband is one of the top lobbyists in the city? How can I trust someone who has absolutely no background in education to know the right path to success? I’ve spent my entire adult life studying this craft and it’s still almost impossible to see the forest from the trees.
I know that Jon Lauritzen, Margurite LaMotte, and Neil Kleiner are not perfect, but I trust them to see what we see in the classroom everyday. I trust that when they make decisions that will guide the next school board, they will do so with only one thing guiding them, what they perceive is best for the students in my classroom. What is best for my children in their schools. I trust that they can see the inside of a classroom, not the staircase to higher office.
February 19, 2007 11:09 PM
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