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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"(Es un cuento contado por un idiota, lleno de ruido y furia, significando nada) - Perdaily.com

"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"(Es un cuento contado por un idiota, lleno de ruido y furia, significando nada) - Perdaily.com

"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"(Es un cuento contado por un idiota, lleno de ruido y furia, significando nada)

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(en español después) In reading through Steve Lopez's article in the Sunday, September 19, 2010 Los Angeles Times entitled Sitting down with A.J. Duffy, I couldn't help but think that Mr. Lopez and his colleagues at the L. A. Times should take the advice offered to Duffy to "join the discussion" on improving public education in L. A. instead of engaging in sanitized discussions that conspicuously leave out vast amounts of relevant information crucial to finally giving all students the public education they are entitled to and which is an essential prerequisite for any putative democracy.

The hardest thing to swallow with Mr. Lopez, Mr. Duffy, and their respective colleagues on one side or the other of the imaginary line that supposedly separates the various leadership factions discussing public education reform is the whole host of critically relevant ideas that anybody who spends as much time as they do engaged in the public education reform debate would have to be aware of.

It is not that "he (Duffy, along with past UTLA Presidents Perez and Higuchi) and his union had missed a chance