Please, Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater

LAUSD is up to their old shenanigans. Between the lead in the water fountains, transfering known assistant principals who are molesting our kids, and their inability to graduate kids ... now we find out that Tony V's shill is really running LAUSD.

Less than two years into the tenure of Los Angeles Unified Superintendent David
Brewer III, all responsibilities for day-to-day operations at the district
have quietly been shifted to a veteran educator who has been a key adviser to
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

Under the shift, all of the LAUSD's top senior personnel now report directly to Ramon Cortines, who played a crucial role in the mayor's efforts to reform the district and who now will report on district operations to Brewer.

Please, let's just throw the baby out with the bathwater and start over.

Districts should be limited to 2-4 high schools, and the feeder middle and elementary schools. Pali & Uni, Hami & Venice, LA & Fairfax.

Maybe if parents had a tie to their community, a tie to their schools, if the busing stopped, maybe the parents and teachers would actually get to know one another, the principals and administrators would not be strangers. There would be REAL accountability. The red-tape would be cut (it will never be eliminated) and maybe, just maybe, the kids would get a chance to actually learn something.