LAUSD- STILL ROTTEN TO ITS "COMMON CORE"
Barbara Jones is not a reporter, but rather an unquestioning conduit for the Los Angeles Unified School District's (LAUSD) irrational propaganda that clearly has no basis in fact. In her latest homage to Deasy & Company entitled Back to School Means Big Changes, Challenges at LAUSD, Ms. Jones uncritically reports LAUSD's latest addition to its disingenuous edspeak party line that doesn't stand the slightest chance of changing what remains its purposefully failed public education reality that is toxic to students and teachers.
Far from the "watershed year" that her article proclaims with a "new curriculum, toughen[ed] graduation requirement and an innovative system for dealing with disruptive students," in reality, Jones completely ignores the fact that students who have been socially promoted years beyond their ability are objectively incapable of doing any curriculum- "new" or otherwise, because they clearly lack mastery of the basic prior grade-level standards necessary to do so-
As for toughening its graduation requirements, schools like Roosevelt High School with existing graduation requirements already loses 55% of its students before they reach the 12th grade. And then, only 30% of these graduating seniors have the requisite college A-G requirements necessary to give them even a chance in