Found this pathetic sight between buildings at our school–a piano abandoned and left naked to the elements. Kind of similar to what LAUSD is doing to our schools. Forget the arts and physical education; we’ll be lucky if we can teach anything pretty soon. With looming cuts, the board of [...]
Every morning when I open my classroom door there are parents sweeping the SLRDP preschool playground. It’s part of the deal. You want your kid to be ready for kindergarten, you have to do some work. Inside the SLRDP classroom I hear the children learning their letters (Who let the Y out? Y,Y,Y,Y.) [...]
Today a map came out in the LA Times of the 250 schools in LA Unified that are being opened up to charter takeover. One of the schools is Figueroa Street Elementary School where, in 1996, Alfredo Perez, a 30-year-old fifth-grade teacher, was hit in the head by a stray [...]
Have been taking a breather from my feed reader, too depressed to “mark as read.” The LAUSD School Board’s decision to allow for the privatization of 250 schools, about a fourth of all of the schools in the district, sent me directly to the DOE to see which/how many schools are candidates for charter takeover. [...]
in my book, along with the other LAUSD kids who have marched in protest against cutbacks that hurt kids. Unbelievable she has been barred from making an address at her graduation, and worse, will not be allowed to tutor over the summer. Hello! People! A kid who displays courage and giving, and [...]
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