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Monday, April 2, 2012

LAUSD: TEACHING DOWN INSTEAD OF RAISING THE BAR (LAUSD: ENSEÑANZA hacia abajo en vez de subir el listón) - Perdaily.com

LAUSD: TEACHING DOWN INSTEAD OF RAISING THE BAR (LAUSD: ENSEÑANZA hacia abajo en vez de subir el listón) - Perdaily.com:


LAUSD: TEACHING DOWN INSTEAD OF RAISING THE BAR (LAUSD: ENSEÑANZA hacia abajo en vez de subir el listón)

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On average it is an undisputed fact that African American and Latino students at LAUSD fail to achieve to their potential. Taking cognizance of this reality should not get one labeled as a racist, but it does, since doing otherwise would actually require substantive changes to the feudal top-down model of public education that is still entrenched at the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and elsewhere in this country to assure that Black, Latino, and poor students never reach their potential.

Given the innate curiosity of all human beings, LAUSD and fraudulent school districts like it around this country - that Whites and other affluent people avoid like the plague - can only continue to achieve programmed mediocrity and failure with students of color by continuing to implement a clearly failed model of segregated public education that the Supreme Court of the United States said was inherently unequal 58 years ago in Brown vs. Board of Education.

In telling how the fraud works at LAUSD and elsewhere, I want to put the very real face of an Korean American math teacher, who should be considered a national treasure to LAUSD and the difficult predominantly Black and