Comments on: Seven education bills await action by Gov. Brown

By: Miles T

Miles T — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 04:55:42 +0000

I always tell everyone thinking about it: “Don’t even think of becoming a teacher!” I use to love teaching. I didn’t make much money but I was treated well. Deasy and his new army for admin treat teachers like trash. Deasy and the corporate “reformers” have brainwashed the public that corporations care more about students and teachers are the greedy ones. The corporate reformers repeat over and over again things like “reform” and “civil rights” but its just a smokescreen to destroy public education and make corporations billions. And the city’s newspaper, the LA Times, refuses to expose these “reformers.”

By: Michael Sturdevant

Michael Sturdevant — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 04:22:31 +0000

You forgot about mainstreaming special ed kids into the classrooms, which invariably increases discipline problems, AND the net effect of all these horrible ‘improvements’ in public education: Smart people are no longer attracted to the profession, which is causing the current teacher shortage.

The reform agenda is working perfectly: Destroy public education.

By: Miles T

Miles T — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 02:11:30 +0000

The ban in LAUSD of “willful defiance” suspensions has been a failure at my school. I board says “willful defiance” is a student refusing to take off his hat. That’s not what it is at all. It is a student refusing to stop yelling across the room, then cusses out the teacher, then refuses to leave the classroom, then kicks a trash can in the room, then cusses out the campus aid that came to pick them up, then it goes on and on and it happens a few times a week. What can a school do about this student? Nothing. S/he destroys the learning environment and all the students suffer. Charters can kick them out and they do. Thanks Deasy–no wonder more and more kids are going to charters–they can kick out the defiant kids traditional school cannot even suspend.