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I guess it does not matter much because the pedophiles the district set loose were on lower income hoods. We rarely see coverage on fallen street soldiers mourned with car washes students organize to help get a homie off the slab and see he or she gets properly buried. But media still exume photos of tragic Jon Benet Ramsey every year.
None of it make teachers unfit, lazy or "bad", much less complicit with district & union, which is obviously NOT protecting its members now as bloated non essential expense of overpaid EducRAT$ grows $ perpetuates propoganda.
Professional journalists have an ethical obligation to agressively and objectively seek truth. Like education, it provides numinous public service; corporate models present a conflict of interest.
Someone said pulitzer prize. Or was it noble peace prize? Hyperbole is easy.
No one is going to care about anything you write until you do something revolutionary: Tell the truth.
How can LAT overlook the vile discrimination that is apparent in contrasts between affluent area schools and hoods like mine--where it is "life during wartime"? LAUSD is notoriously corrupt, yet no one at LAT scrutinizes the top heavy structure or suggests LBUSD, which serves same demographic as LAUSD' "poor performing" schools successfully with effecient small district model--not corporate, not charter. Students and teachers in the trenches are the target of cuts so devestating our compuses are being torn apart.
Our union's power is certainly not wasted on protecting teachers. Much less students. Both are disposable.
And Woodward and Bernstien are nowhere in sight.
Even Geraldo slips in some relevant queries, but you chat with whoever lausd sends your way. Getting the real story takes skills. And courage.
You need Mad talent like reporters covering that Atlanta Standardized Test Cheating Scandal
Old school LAT took NO prisoners--post-modern humanity demands the Gonzo sensibilities. What would Oscar Zeta-Acosta say?
ADVICE 4 LAT
It is essential for LAT to cover education, but these Jason of Education stories disconnect readers from complex, comprehensive perception of LAUSD/schools:
students, administrators, parents,teachers--not to mention an adequate explication of how these scores are utilized. Education research on the"failure" of schools is generated by personal interests--citizens count on investigative reporters to catch that; testing has limited vertacity as a tool for evaluating the performance of only educators who are most overworked and overwhelmed (Elementry,ELA, MATH Some SS and SCI) on staff. No deference is offered in scores to mitigating factors like ESL, IEP, class size, remediation, even maternity leave (which is an issue for students and teachers!)
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