Once again we have had to set up a new SAUSD corruption thread as the last one started to run slow with all the comments on it.
Our schools are in crisis today – not just here in Santa Ana but all over the state. The only thing we know for sure is that we are going to take more budget hits.
I am amazed that the SAUSD hired back all their laid off administrators. How crazy is that? Class sizes are growing, good teachers are laid off, and the union, as usual, is asleep at the wheel.
We will continue to reason through all this here at the Orange Juice blog! We can but hope for the best…
Tmare – let’s hope teachers get to help run these charters, look at what happened just last year- a couple of scammers ran “their” charter into the ground while paying themselves ludicrous salaries. This was in the SA, right?
I want to repost an earlier entry because the union elections are this week and the Mercer cabal has not taken responsibility for their surreptitious and secret action endorsing the potential loss of dozens of teachers… and will there be RIFs? The Mercer cabal wants elections completed before they feign surprise at the RIFs that the district says aren’t coming. We have the misfortune of working under this incompetent and ineffective leadership. Mercer has fought for a 1.5 % pay bump for inservices and staff training while completely ignoring the big picture.
-old post-
Dearest Union: Did SAEA have anything to say about this failed race to the top funding? Did CTA have a recommendation on these measures? Did SAEA consult its membership or rep council before agreeing to the terms that have led directly to the recent actions against these three schools?
This year was proceeding so smoothly- no RIFfing?
Or will this action create a whole new wave of RIFs and has the SAEA been played again??
Our best chance to change this is by electing O’Neil. The Mercer cabal counts the votes, it may like all past ordained elections come in solidly for the SAEA endorsed =Mercer-slate.
It’s been so for years– do something about it at your site.
After posting jibber jabber cartoons mocking Russo, Hammet and Lopez on the SAEA website at union expense, Mercer is not surprisingly no longer taken seriously by these administrators. Indeed, the Mercer cabal is the laughingstock of the District office.
Put O’Neil up or we can expect a dozen more faculties to be threatened with termination. She is taken very seriously because of her expertise on school finance and years of tenacious research into district sleight of hand.
Why are some people on the blog saying that no RIFS are coming? Haven’t the district and union agreed on 126 RIFS?
Yes, there will be RIF’s although there shouldn’t be anywhere near the number of RIF’s last year. Just how this recent news will play out remains to be seen. There are many unknowns at this point.
All I can say is that there is a wave of change coming to our district, and it is going to to turn the old way of doing things upside down. If your a teacher at another school besides the 3 that have been designated as under-performing, you will be next on the list. There are plenty of incompetencies going on at every school, not just the three that have been designated.
Also, I hope that the former administrators at those three schools, particularly Willard, don’t think that they are now “safe” because they were conveniently transferred to another school site this past school year. It was under their administration that Willard, in particular, got to the current status that it has attained from the state. So now that they aren’t there, is the district saying “Oh wel,, your new admin is exempt because they have only been there for 2 years” and saying “Everyone else is going to be held responsible” Which in the case of Willard would be the teachers, and only about 50% of the staff as most of the staff is new this year. I hope that the district sees this discrepancy and plans on addressing it. Former administration should be held just as accountable for this situation as the teachers!!!
I agree with #905 but there is some serious faulty logic in all of this. Why is everything the fault of the school staff when it is the district who has been dictating policy to the schools for years? Once again, I ask, why don’t we get to fire the district administrators who are making all of the decisions? Did the Willard staff choose to have their former principal for such a long period of time or did they actively attempt to get him dismissed? I think it was the latter and this is the reason why control of a school site needs to be handed to the teachers, classified staff and parents of a school. The district has not helped any of these schools, they have only hurt.
Susan told us at the February Rep Council meeting that the District would send out about 100 RIFs or so. The District informed the school board that they may need to send out 126 RIFs, but that number may go down once they know how many people will retire and so forth.
I think it’s outrageous what is happening with Century, Valley and Willard. The teachers at those school face enormous challenges that our brilliant politicians know nothing about.
I voted for Obama. But I’ve about had with with him and Arne Duncan on their education policy now. They both came out and supported the firing of the Rhonde Island teachers.
The news at my site was the 126 rifs were being offset by the number of teachers on contract who were being let go and some non re elects of 1st and 2nd yr tenure track teachers, plus the retirees…the union has not been forthcoming on the exact formula.
After the upcoming sham re election of the Mercer cabal, I am sure we shall all be getting registered letters once again. The bumping process promises to uproot years of teachers hard work in specific school communities.
Mercer and cabal- answer some questions.
Would it be possible to skewer these 3 schools if you hadn’t agreed to the District’s demands?
Why was this agreement made w/o any debate?
Who signed for us?
Is there an agreement on RIFs or not?
#908~ Could you please explain what you mean by “teachers on contract that are being let go” Also, if you don’t mind, who are these non re-elects of 1st and second year tenure track people?
It was my understanding that the district could apply for Race to the Top funds with or without the union, the union did not have to agree to anything, it was a district decision. We’re all in for a big fight and we need to quit arguing among ourselves and start supporting each other in any way we can.
It is also my understanding that the 100 persistently low performing schools will come from all over the state, regardless of if they applied for Race To The Top funds, so we didn’t sign up in any way to be put on this list. The state wants the funds and they are doing whatever they can to make sure that the state will be eligible the next time around (in June, I believe). This comes straight from the feds, to the state, to the local district and the crap all falls on the staff at the local school.
I’m at one the 3 schools that has been “chosen” and according to the district representatives that talked to us on Friday, it is a total of 187 schools statewide that have been designated as “Persistently Low Performing”. They mentioned that district has until June 1st to make a decision on what to do at our school and the other 2 as well as apply for the 2nd round of funds.
Tmare, (910).
I totally agree with you! And by the way, California was disqualified for the “Race to the Top” funds. We can reapply in June though.
Where’s the Research in ‘Race to the Top’?
By Debra Viadero on September 3, 2009
There goes that swinging pendulum: Much was made of the fact that the phrase “scientifically based research” appeared more than 100 times in the federal No Child Left Behind Act. But in the rules proposed for the U.S. Department of Education’s $4 billion Race to the Top competition, the terms don’t appear at all.
The omission hasn’t gone unnoticed by the research community. Both the 25,000-member American Educational Research Association and the Knowledge Alliance, which represents research organizations, federal laboratories, and technical assistance centers, submitted comments that make a case for adding a definition for scientifically based or scientifically valid research to the proposed regulations and for requiring grant applicants to rely more on research in crafting their reform plans.
The AERA, in particular, also urges federal policymakers to take the opportunity to address the fact that the research base on charter schools and on turning around persistently low-achieving schools is disappointingly weak.
But that group’s most controversial recommendation—one that is echoed by Helen Ladd and Dan Koretz, two researchers who also contributed comments—warns against basing evaluations of teachers and principals on student-achievement data alone. They write:
“Neither research evidence related to growth models nor best practice related to assessment supports the proposed requirement that assessment of teachers and principals be based centrally on student achievement.”
Arne Duncan–BA Sociology Degree
Does anyone see teacher or researcher …?
The gravy train has run out of grease and we are all being taken on a nice long trans-formative ride where we dance to the tune of the prevailing political whims. ALL ABOOOARD!!
What’s ridiculous is that there are 126 teachers being riff’d and at the latest protest there seemed to many less than that. We deserve this wake up call and maybe now people will be more inclined to protest this. Obama is our worst nightmare! He has completely lost my vote…
I agree with lessthansatisfied. I could not believe how few teachers showed up at the rally. It just makes me sick that some people would rather carry on with their usual routine and just live in their own little me, me ,me world! What a wake up call it will be when they realize their me world is going to get a little shaken up. I will be the first to ask ” What did you do to help stop it?’ I would love to see some of those ‘too comfy in my school” teachers be transferred to Willard! Remember this people….Intermediate=Multiple subject. trust me, I know……..
Newsflash … Register just reported out that 3 O.C. schools named state’s worst performing.
http://www.ocregister.com/news/schools-238118-reforms-school.html
Guess what? They are all SAUSD schools!
Century/Valley High Schools and Willard.
This is not entirely the fault of the students – school admins and teacher need to be held accountable!
Yes, fire the entire lot of teachers at these schools.
SAUSD contributes to the black eye Santa Ana carries.
Fire the superintendent, her cabinet and the school board, too. Noji & Richardson have nearly 4 decades of service. Are we better off?
Oh my, 126 teachers being riff’d while three of OC worst performing schools are SAUSD schools.
Geez, fire all the teachers at Willard, Century and Valley!
Today’s Register article:
http://www.ocregister.com/news/schools-238118-reforms-school.html
Just remember that over 50% of the teachers at Willard have been there less than a year, yeah, fire them, it’s all their fault. We don’t even have any test scores to even see if the new staff at Willard has made a difference. Come on, if you want to blame the district, fine. Let’s just blame everyone except the students and the parents and spin our wheels for another 10 years. I’m sure all of these kids arrived at Willard, Century and Valley ready to learn from the fabulous preschool and elementary school education they received and the teachers at those three sites just ruined them. Does anyone ever bother to look at their scores as a group upon entering these schools? Does anyone ever give teachers the chance to teach the kids where they are at and not just attempt to teach standards they aren’t ready for? These grand gestures are nothing more than that, oversimplifications of very complex problems that cannot be solved by summarily firing a staff. Just imagine that you were a RIF’d teacher last year who managed to get your job back but you were assigned to Willard and now it’s your fault that the school is persistently low performing. Even the principal gets a 2 year pass, what about the teachers? Also imagine that you are one of the dedicated teachers at Willard who decided to stay rather than head for a higher performing school once the opportunity came about, it’s now your fault too. We are all in this together, any one of us could have been at that site. The same district that caused the problems is now in charge of fixing it, except their only options are to remove the staff, does anyone think this will work?
Those teachers who are so critical of the SAEA should have been around many years ago before collective bargaining when jerks like Jim Halle (Asst. Supt. Personnel) ran SAUSD. I sat in “Meet and Confer” (psydo collective bargaining) and had to witness firsthand how teachers were disrespected and manipulated by the District.
If you anti Association teachers had to live in that atmosphere you would change your anti union diatribes quickly. Just try to exist on your own and see how long you would last!
I agree with TMare!
1. Many teachers at these schools are NEW to them.
2. Why would you get rid of teachers who are NEW to the school and were involuntarily or displaced or moved there due to RIF? (They need the 2 year pass if the principals get one)
3. Many teachers “chose” to stay (could’ve transferred) because they wanted to try to make a difference (where many teachers refused to be placed). Is it their fault that they wanted to try to help these kids who are clearly 3-4 years below grade level?
4. Teachers in our district are “constantly” shuffled from school to school + switching grade levels. There isn’t ANY consistency at all. I blame the Superintendent + ASSistant Superintendent who chose that route.
5. STOP blaming the teachers (many who just arrived there & were NOT there when the school was “persistently” low performing).
6. Look into the culture + the parent involvement aspect.
Thank you for your time!
The current economy feeds the anti-union rhetoric. It’s more of the blame game. I’m afraid that many of our colleagues are unwilling to even consider the conditions we would have today if it weren’t for the union. The district tried to get away with not paying teachers for time spent working summer school, they would continue to do the same if there weren’t some sort of watchdog. This is one small example but especially in this economy the district will try anything they can to save money which means getting something for nothing out of the people who are already working above and beyond their contract.
Union-yes… present SAEA leadership- NO. These clowns have blown any chance of being taken seriously by Admin. Mercer has not responded to the question of whether or not those 3 schools would be on the chopping block if it were not for her actions.
Her signing with the district without any teacher input was un-democratic and demonstrates that she ignored the constituency.
Not too late. Vote for O’Neil. Let’s make it a real union, not a fiefdom.
I’ve been checking the Register’s comments on the article about Willard, Valley and Century. Surprisingly, the general public overall seems to understand the issues that these schools are dealing with. When will the feds, the state and the district start to recognize these issues and deal with them appropriately. You don’t deal with low performing schools after it’s too late for those kids. How about preschool and parent education? This is where it begins.
I am going to give YOUR child a book of Russian and you (as their parent) must get YOUR child to pass the Russian test that I am going to prepare for you. You have from Sept.-May to get YOUR child to learn it + pass “my” hahaha EXTREMELY difficult test. Could YOU do it? If you can’t, I am going to “FIRE YOU as their parent.” You must Race to the Top …got it ? Next,I am going to “dump” 31 MORE neighbor kids on YOU and if you can’t get ALL of them to pass “my” hahaha difficult test…YOU are FIRED as the parent & the babysitter. Oh, yes, I will give you 1000 copies per month to run things off, but that’s all the support that you get.
I, too, am delighted to see the publics reaction to the article from OC Register. They get it. Too bad the politicians aren’t listening to anyone.
I am pleasantly surprised by the comments from the Register’s article too. At the same time, it’s frustrating that the politicians don’t.
Tmare and Teacher et al- You’ve clearly thought deep and long on the real problems facing the district and education in general-how will we get your points across to the district? We must dismiss the cartoonists that currently run the union. Vote O’Neil.
Just a little encouragement from the public and I am noting that not one member of the public responding to this article has mentioned that they thought that firing the teachers was the answer:
“I know firsthand that Santa Ana teachers are great. They work with an extremely challenging student and parent population. Schools are not just the teachers. They are just a part of a difficult equation with very volatile variables. Teachers cannot do it all. You can reassign teachers, administrators, and the like. As long as the student population is unwilling to embrace learning and assume responsibility, nothing will change. In fact, you can even bring in teachers from so called “High Performing Schools” and they won’t know what to do or where to start.” From the OCRegister comments section.
I am curious why there is so much union bashing. Without the unions ( I agree you may not like the current leader, vote them out if that is the way you feel)but we need a union to help with the myriad of problems teachers can be faced with.
If teachers are having problems being effective then the administrators need to help those lousy teachers. What happened with the Peer Assistance Review?
I have worked along side many gifted teachers, and some not so gifted and some down right terrible.
I keep hearing that Willard has been a terrible school for years and that they have had a lot of different staff.
Most of us teachers teach because we care. If some do not know how to teach anymore then get some help from PAR or go to some inservices that matter. Don’t just xerox a five year old copy of something. Change up the game.
Didn’t they just re do Valley. Effective discipline might help. School wide expectations, classroom expectation and consequences that matter to the kids.
Well there are my two cents
Agreed #933
However, it is very difficult to institute an effective discipline program when you have no support from the district office and/or the school administration. When teachers are on their own little island by themselves and discipline has become relative to the violations at your site, there isn’t much an individual teacher can do. At one site, forging a few documents is reason for suspension and at another violent physical abuse of another student doesn’t even warrant a detention. I’m not sure how the individual teacher is supposed to handle discipline with no support from the school or district.
Anonplz~ I am for O’neil!
How about this:
A comprehensive preschool program for all students in Santa Ana. Parents are welcome to enroll their children if they attend a mandatory once per week parent training session, otherwise, no free childcare. Parents learn how to be parents and kids who have the greatest disadvantage (no preschool), have what they need. Parents learn how to be involved in their kid’s education and how to talk to and raise their kids to be self-sufficient, thinking individuals. And we stop blaming teachers for the scores of students who are beyond help, students who are already 11-18 years old. I think this would be much more cost effective than the current methods. I’m done with my sermon now.
I think a lot more positivity and good feelings would come about amongst the teachers if O’Neil were to win. People are disgusted with Mercer and do not trust her to really support teachers. The turnout at the rally speaks for itself. More would have turned out for a leader that was trusted. Please, VOTE FOR O’NEIL, and tell your otherwise apathetic friends to do the same before it is too late.
You’re only telling us how bad Mercer is. But what I want to know is what’s going to change with O’Neil? How is she any better? What skills does she possess that Susan does not. Let’s stop with all the negativity. I’m tired of it and I’m sure a lot of people don’t want to keep living in a world where all we do is keep piling up the excrement.
Someone mentioned another 10 years of spinning wheels.
And so the cycle of non-accountability continues.
I’ve lived in Santa Ana for nearly two decades and this is what I’ve never fully understood:
why is there a two-tier school system in place? fundamental and non? The Santa Ana children should have equal opportunity to the same education! this two-tier system sucks. Furthermore, the lottery system that existed years ago was DISCRIMINATORY. Has anyone heard of Mendez v Westminster????? And this is the 21st century.
English as a second language has been in place for many years. Why hasn’t the district figured out how to handle this? If teachers are faced with this challenge on a daily basis why not figure out how to correct this problem? I am stunned that problem solving is not a strong suit of the admins or teachers.
I cannot buy into the parent blame since the district has taken great strides to fragment the parents with their numerous parent organization groups. Conquer and divide has been the district’s mantra for several years. One cohesive parent group that is NOT managed by admins or teaachers is a good first step of one voice.
The students and parents are the CUSTOMERS, and from my vantage point, the adminstrators, school board and teachers continue to do a poor job in providing the services they’ve been retained to provide.
Don’t be so darn sensitive – teachers share plenty of the blame as well as their screwy union. your post sometimes take on shades of being the victim. With this attitude the wheels of poor performing and underachieving schools/students will persist. Why? Because it’s all about YOU and not the STUDENTS.
#939 –
I hear you loud & clear.
I’m providing a link to an article that all teachers, administrators and parents should read …. “Build a Better Teacher.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Teachers-t.html?pagewanted=1&em
There is plenty to absorb and ponder. My immediate takeaway is teachers need better classroom management skills.
It’s time to stop playing the parental blame game and look in the mirror.
O’Neil would at least keep independent of the District. Susan is too interested in kissing up to the District and in promoting her own personal advancement. O’Neil would be in it for the teachers.
#939 — You make a few valid points, but you go way too far. Parents are tremendously responsible for their children’s education. If parents don’t read to students, expose their students to English, and show their students that school is important, not just daycare, what the heck do you expect teachers to accomplish. We can’t do miracles in every case. Also, how well can students learn English if the only place they ever hear it is in school?
And please don’t hold teachers responsbile for the divide and conquer strategy of the school district. That is administration pure and simple, and it frustrates teachers as well.
Teachers are tight lipped about Willard, Century and Valley as the only 3 underperforming/achieving schools in the county.
And so the cycle continues.
#941 –
Yes, parents are responsible for their child’s education, however most SAUSD parents have a very limited education and they cannot read to their children. And these parents come from a culture that reveres teachers and sometimes that does not bode well for them.
I still do not understand why SAUSD has not figured out how to teach to this community. No one is more familiar with the obstacles and challenges, yet no one has developed skills to adequately address these problems. For me, that’s a black eye on SAUSD educators.
The difference between you and me is that I live in this community. I witness first hand parents holding down two jobs to keep a roof and food on the table for their kids while reaching for the American dream. Too many times I’ve had to explain to parents the significance of grades because I’ve learned they think not getting an F is good.
These parents are not aware of the classes their middle school kids should be taking to lay the groundwork for high school and college. Why is this education lacking? This is where a reputable and solid parent organization could do good work. The parents need to be educated just like their children.
And what really irks me is that these parents do not have the luxury of choice – they do not have the resources to send their childen to private schools. It is a cycle and that makes me sad.
I cannot address the conquer and divide concept, however I do know teachers are more powerful and influential than district administrators. The parents do not deal with the admins on a daily basis, but the teacher does.
In closing, if you think you’re doing daycare, then that’s your fault. You are the captain of your ship. You should take more care to steer it well.
Building a better teacher sounds like an overdue idea.
You’re too critical of teachers. You have an opinion, but you don’t have facts to back it up. Just because students are not learning English as fast as YOU seem to think they should, it doesn’t mean teachers are failing them. You assume that there is a better way to teach. What exactly is that, pray tell? Also, do you understand that even if teachers think they have more effective ways to teach, they are controlled by strict pacing guides and a district mandated curriculum for each course? Veering away from either could be grounds for discipline of the teacher. It sounds to me like you live in the Santa Ana community, but that you have no kids of your own and have little experience with the schools. Why don’t you run for school board if you know so much? The problems start there, and I think we would both agree that the current school board has done a huge disservice to the community. But the same members are elected over and over. Maybe that’s your fault since you seem to think that we teachers don’t live in Santa Ana. But you vote, don’t you? Finally, don’t think that just because you explained grades to a parent one time that they are going to understand everything and suddenly be enlightened. Do you know how many times we teachers carefully explain the significance of grades to parents only to have nothing change with their kids? Just because you have taken the opportunity to explain things, you should not assume that there are teachers who have never bothered. That is highly unlikely. Go back to check for understanding a week or a month after you explain. See if it’s as easy as you think. In a perfect world, the schools would be able to fix all problems in a community, but we are not in a perfect world. The parents matter. If they have not read to the kids in either Spanish or English, regularly checked homework, taken their kids to the library, exposed their kids to English, and instilled the importance of education, many of the kids will be behind no matter what the teachers do. Values come from home, not school. If school does not seem to matter to the parents, it won’t matter to most of the kids. This is common sense. Only a fool would disagree. To be honest, I think Santa Ana has some of the best teachers in the country. It would be hard to imagine anyplace else where teachers are so highly trained to reach a population and where teachers care so much. If you want to see test scores in Santa Ana plummet, replace the Santa Ana teachers with teachers from high performing schools in Newport Beach. Also, I never said teachers do daycare. Those are your words, not mine. What I said is that many of the parents in the Santa Ana community unfortunately seem to think that schools are daycare centers. If you know as much as you seem to think, why don’t you find a way to empower the parents and vote in a new school board? I guarantee you that the vast majority of Santa Ana teachers would be pleased about that.
By the way, when schools do have parent education events, guess which parents generally show up? If you guessed that it’s the parents of the most successful students, you guessed right. And these events are always done in Spanish. Whether or not the parents of the other kids have two jobs or three, they have no excuse for not taking an interest in their children’s education. They need to make time. To excuse them and blame the teachers for their failures is nothing more than politically correct horse____.
# 944, Very eloquently said and so totally true. I have retired friends (from high performing districts) who tried subbing in Santa Ana Elementary Schools (even mine) and said they would never come back and had no idea what we had to try to overcome with our students – in addition to teaching. I am especially thinking of the “teacher of the year” from a certain district who couldn’t take more than two days and couldn’t believe how exhausting my job was. This was just a few months after SHE retired at the age of 58. Of course that was back in the day when we could actually call our own sub, one that we knew was very competent.
My advice to those who think the solution is clear, VOLUNTEER. You don’t have to be a parent, just a concerned person living in the community, or not.
As to “Captain of My Ship”, ~ used to be, haven’t had that opportunity for years, and don’t expect to anytime soon! Thanks SAUSD, RTTT, AND NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND!
Prop 227 was the end all for us and test scores. Since then teachers are being evaluated on test scores and the kids cannot even understand the language of what they’re reading, so most of them in turn don’t perform well on these tests. If you also factor in the community we serve (most non-english speakers) then you have scores that will be continuously low compared to the rest of the county (irvine, newport beach, laguna) who’s language is primarily english. I wonder if China and all those other Asians countries we are comparing ourselves to push their large non-chinese speaking peers to the same degree as we push our non-english speakers.
#944 – The teachers union has played a significant role in electing and re-electing Noji and Richardson. In fact, numerous teachers and the union played a significant role in passing the last school bond – thanks for the increase in property taxes.
Many SAUSD teachers have walked SAUSD precints and opened their pocketbooks to the favored candidates. Don’t play coy.
Volunteer? You are more niave than I thought. A few years ago a group of community members attempted to volunteer and we were not met with open arms. The resources we were willing to bring to the table did not matter. One principal turned down free landscaping for a school. Another got snarky about allowing us to help out with uniforms at the beginning of the school year. Anyone who has attempted to question the district has been discredited or intimidated by the school police. And a few us received calls from an Ass’t Superintendent requesting we not speak at a school board meeting. And some parents received the same message. You seem oblivious to the dark underbelly of the district administrators.
I don’t know how my children got involved in this discussion, but since you seem somewhat interested here’s the skinny on my offspring. My last child will complete her Master’s in 2011.
Can you read well? I never said anything about you volunteering, although another poster did and I do agree that would be a good idea, and my posts hardly suggest any support of district administators. Teachers and students suffer more from that so-called underbelly than you do. Don’t you understand that? Most teachers are on the side of the community and students, but we don’t have anywhere near the power you think we do. You couldn’t even get district administrators to let you provide free landscaping or uniforms. How do you expect us to change the district administration? Go on strike? I don’t think so. You’re attacking the wrong group of people. You probably have more power than we do in that district administrators don’t control your career.
As far as the union goes, look at my moniker. I don’t support what SAEA does or has done. Neither do many other teachers. This is true for the bonds, their chosen candidates for school board, and many other things. But individual teachers have absolutely no real say. The union has been completely hijacked by Susan Mercer and her cadre of cronies. This is why I and many other teachers want a change in leadership.
Although it pains me to state the obvious, you seem to need it: Teachers are human. We don’t all think exactly alike. You can’t reason from the specific to the general. Just because some teachers supported the bonds or “favored candidates,” it doesn’t mean we all did. You seem angry, but your anger is misdirected and your little bit of knowledge is actually dangerous because it leads you to very wrong conclusions and impressions. If your last child has taken any courses in education or logic for the master’s degree, maybe he or she can help you with your reading comprehension and reasoning ability. You really need that help, not to mention a change in attitude.
Susan Mercer won the election, folks.
“Tmare – let’s hope teachers get to help run these charters, look at what happened just last year- a couple of scammers ran “their” charter into the ground while paying themselves ludicrous salaries. This was in the SA, right?”
Yeah, we don’t want a repeat Santa Ana school district????????
Fire every single teacher in California (national teacher evaluation rated teachers in california D+).
f&^* the union out of the school board rooms!
Jail or deport parents who waste public funds by not giving a crap if their kids are failing students…(ITS a Must!)
hire only the best -test them often for quaility and make the classroom a rigot and accountiable place to produce the best!
I hope you’re sarcastic Michelle, if not then you’re a complete moron..