With all the concern over the failure of public education, those of us within the Tower of Babel called public education forget that the orwellian language spoken here in our hollowed (sic) halls is not intelligible to those on the outside. LAUSD and other big city school districts have created a linguistic reality that is really most akin to the facades of a Hollywood back lot that gives the appearance of substance while being devoid of it, while allowing ease of dismantling for the next reform remake that will be constructed in its place. Districts like LAUSD have become more emboldened in their dysfunction, because they clearly know that nobody -- or mere minorities -- are left minding the store.
For those of you who take the mastery of edspeak seriously, there will be an assessment at the end (no there won't). However, have no fear, because like all LAUSD assessments that students presently take, the proctor of the assessment will have the answers and given his precarious job situation as a teacher if his students don't do
