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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

40 Years Later, It's Time For Another Latino Walkout - Perdaily.com

40 Years Later, It's Time For Another Latino Walkout - Perdaily.com

40 Years Later, It's Time For Another Latino Walkout

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Since the only thing that continues to motivate educators and politicians is the Average Daily Attendance (ADA) money that is collected for warm butts in school seats where no education takes place, I would strongly support another Latino walkout.

However, this time members of the Latino community and those who support them as the majority population in the State of California need to have a clear platform of what the education establishment must agree to in order to bring the walkout to an end. Given the huge level of daily student truancy and movement from school to school without ever being engaged in a relevant process of appropriate education geared to the precise level the students are at, there must be a clearly stated platform that all elements of students and parents and the educators that support them require that all live up to in order for this walkout to be something more than more wasted time outside of school.

It is even possible for educators and students to meet in alternative venues where education can continue with the only difference being that LAUSD doesn't get paid for it. In the last 7 months of writing perdaily and observing