UTLA: LAUSD's JUDAS GOAT
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Cattle can be very dangerous if they realize their own power and use it in a concerted effort to be free. This is why slaughterhouses use Judas goats to calm the sheep or other cattle, so that they can be calmly lead to their demise. Much the same technique is used by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and its in-house union United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), which employes 7 out-of-classroom union officers to pacify union rank-and-file into believing that their union will protect them as more and more