Break Up the School District
Your “Where Do School Funds Go?” article (Sunday, Aug. 2) defies credibility to teachers who have to deal with the Los Angeles Unified School District administration on a daily basis. We know how much funding there is, yet we see no pencils, paper, textbooks or other materials required by our students. How is this possible?
The sole purpose of the district should be to educate children, and that is the sole function of the teacher. The child and the teacher should be the No. 1 priority of the district. But as a teacher I could show you every day that this is almost the last concern of our administration.
The district has become too big. It has a bureaucracy that would rival any government entity. It impedes the process and progress of education with its stranglehold on funds and change.
I am puzzled over why the Los Angeles Times seems to protect or whitewash any serious expose of the district’s administration. The Times does not hesitate to investigate politicians, the Police Department or any other suspect aspect of our city. Why not our school system?
SANDY ENFIELD, Woodland Hills
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