Thursday, May 6, 2010

You Can't Get There From Here... - Perdaily.com

You Can't Get There From Here... - Perdaily.com

You Can't Get There From Here...

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Back in the 1990s, "LEARN president Mike Roos described [LAUSD] as 'an internal culture of go along and get along. It absolutely swallows any effort at change...nothing permanent will happen till that culture is gone.'" So the obvious question is: If we knew this back then and even before, why are LAUSD and other big city predominantly minority filled school districts allowed to continue causing more damage to American society than Al Qaeda ever dreamed of?

While I believe that the answer to this question is pretty simple and straight forward, it does, nonetheless, require an honest and open dialogue and willingness to act about the factors that people and their politicians have always found difficult to address openly:


What's the alternative?


It is virtually impossible to talk to any honest city, state, or federal official knowledgeable about public education