Failing Schools Take The Show Online... - Perdaily.com

Failing Schools Take The Show Online... - Perdaily.com

Failing Schools Take The Show Online...

by Leonard

Just when I think LAUSD couldn't do anything more ridiculous than they already have, LAUSD administration never fails to surprise me by their ability to top themselves in terms of the absurdity of what they do next. As I was sitting around today wondering what I would write about, I get a robo call from Chief Academic Officer Judy Elliot telling me that the great minds at LAUSD have come up with the City of Angels Virtual Academy School where students can make up any one of 12 classes in Algebra I, Geometry, 9th or 10th grade English, and World or U.S. History.

This joint venture of City of Angels Continuation School, the LAUSD Office of Curriculum and Instruction, Beyond the Bell, and the Education Technology departments will join with Ms. Elliot as the latest unrealistic panacea for addressing longstanding abject failure of public education at LAUSD. It has LAUSD's surrealistic modus operandi all over it:

1. It proposes no security regiment to assure that the students actually do their own work or get by with a little help from their friends or teachers who are more and more terrified of losing their jobs if their students don't pass.
2. It assumes that students with elementary school reading abilities and little knowledge of math can somehow get through secondary core courses that these students have already shown by their previous failure is way beyond their subjective abilities.
3. Fails to ask the foundational question as to why students who have little or no relevant English language skills or relevant foundational math skills could reasonably be expected to pass a course online that they couldn't pass