LAUSD SURVEY: EITHER THEY DON'T HAVE A CLUE OR THEY DON'T CARE - YOU DECIDE (ENCUESTA LAUSD: YA NO TIENEN UNA PISTA O no les importa - USTED DECIDE)
(For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post)
Until March 23rd, you have the dubious honor of taking an LAUSD survey online at the LAUSD website dealing with homework, A-G requirements, and standards based promotion. Regrettably, what this survey shows is that LAUSD administration not only doesn't have a clue as to what the problems are, they don't even know what questions to ask to determine how to proceed in a manner that might actually improve things.
For starters, the survey presupposes student abilities that are objectively not there, because of a longstanding LAUSD policy of socially promoting students irrespective of their mastery of prior grade-level standards. This while doing little or no remediation to actually address these deficits in a timely manner, before they become conclusively undermining to the education process at the secondary level (middle and high school). Here single-subject credentialed teachers have neither the training nor time to address these permissive deficits that LAUSD administration is responsible for never having addressed earlier.
Initial questions on the survey presuppose that students have the ability to do assigned homework and the