LAUSD'S IMPERIAL NOTION OF LAW- WHOSE RIGHTS ARE THEY ANYWAY?
(For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post)
As I have tried to point out in recent perdaily posts, the major way in which the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has successfully gotten rid of thousand of teachers is by getting them to buy into allowing LAUSD to define what is going on and who has what rights. I call this framing the conversation, which as of this writing, LAUSD continues to do successfully in virtually all the cases it has brought against teachers. In order to hopefully turn this around in the future, let me go through just some of the false assumptions LAUSD administration gets teachers to buy into, which predictably continues to cause them to lose their jobs.
Under the both state and federal law, one is presumed innocent until proven guilty by a preponderance of the evidence in a civil cases and beyond a reasonable doubt in a