LAUSD Teachers: the New Satanic Serial Child Molesters? by Michael Dunn
(For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post)
Although initial written over a month ago, the following repost of this blog that appeared in the Modern School blogseems regrettably more apt than ever.
Attacking teachers' unions, collective bargaining and due process rights, pensions, salaries and privacy has not ended the achievement gap nor mollified the critics of public education. Now the witch hunt for teachers is taking a new and twisted turn for the worse, thanks to several recent and coincidental abuse allegations against Los Angeles Unified School District employees and an orgy of hysterical media reports portraying the problem as rampant and due in part to the teachers union.
While it is, of course, imperative that schools provide safe learning environments and that everyone, including