When Adults Play Games With Kids’ Money
Written by redqueeninla in Education
Whatever happened at Tuesday’s 11/12/13 LAUSD school board meeting? It went on long enough: 8+ hours. That should have been enough time to catch an understanding.
But no amount of time would clarify the opaque politicking and grandstanding and surrogate conversations and buzzwords that amount to a private language being passed back and forth among some players, leaving the rest of us perplexed.
The entire show is here and the scene about the resolution to restore LAUSD’s Title I funding to its historical 40% school poverty concentration (pc) threshold starts at 2:40:20. At this time you can view the superintendent conspicuously take out work and ostentatiously refuse to deny it at the expense of listening to actual “clients”, as board member Garcia later refers to them, the parade of Title I parents, children, counselors and a principal aligned in their futile effort to convey the desperation of their plight.
Board president Vladovic could scarcely hurry the diverse speakers to this Resolution along fast enough before justifying (at 3:07) his complete unwillingness to actually hear any of the heartfelt testimony of hardship before him. He asserted instead his refusal to consider anything but an a priori“philosophical” belief in addressing “the concentration” by “leaving it as it is”. He asserted that the incipient distribution of state Proposition 30 monies via