UTLA & TEACHER JAIL - WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG? WHAT SPECIFICALLY ARE YOU DOING?
(Mensaje se repite en Español)
From LAUSD's point of view, what is the downside they face from screwing teachers? It is now close to 3 weeks since Scott Mandel wrote in a letter reproduced below that "UTLA President Warren Fletcher was actively working on your plight." So, other then staff-development-like rhetoric, what has been accomplished to address the exigencies of this longstanding and yet UTLA ignored teacher jail reality that has been openly destroying innocent teachers' lives for years? And UTLA officers and staff didn't know about this? UTLA not only knew, they consistently told innocent teachers, "You should resign, you've got a bad case." UTLA has given credibility to this LAUSD witch hunt by taking part in it, while never actually doing anything to defend teachers or hold LAUSD accountable. If you were LAUSD, would you stop the witch hunt under these circumstances? Why would you, when you got rid of 853 teachers last year without not even one getting their job back? They're batting a thousand.
What about the teachers who have already lost their jobs and are in the process of