Repairs, not iPads presents: Repairs not DEASY Rally!
Repairs not Deasy Rally
Tuesday, March 18, 20 at 4:00pm
Chatsworth High School
10027 Lurline Ave, Chatsworth, CA 91311
We will be Heard!
Repair our Schools
Hands off our Repair and Construction Bond
Restore our Libraries, Early Education, Adult Education, Physical Education, Arts Education, Counselors, Lower Class Size
iPads are not a Civil Right!
LAUSD Parent writes about John Deasy and Casey Wasserman's deceptive practices
LAUSD Parent Crystal Smith posted this incredible expose of John "let them eat iPads" Deasy and right-wing-meddling-millionaire Casey Wasserman's grand deception of Los Angeles families and educators on the Repairs not iPads facebook page. Reprinted here with permission.
The teachers, administrators, parents, but especially the students deserve better
By Crystal Smith
Does anyone remember Donor's Choose? Deasy partnered with Wasserman Foundation and gave out 600,000 cards worth $15 each to every parent, and then Starbucks joined in and gave out cards for $10 each. Wow. Our hero. So teachers scrambled to post their projects (not easy at all), using their free time to do it. So our schools are broken, damaged and in disrepair and he looks like this huge hero, right? What they failed to say (on purpose) is that only $2 million dollars was going to be funded through the Donor's Choose cards, and then only $2 million through the Starbucks cards (which could only be received with a purchase and you had to ask for them). If everyone "had" redeemed all the cards (they were given out before winter break, not everyone got them, I had a note that by January 9th we were told to get all our projects posted, but January 30th all funds were exhausted and these gift certificates didn't expire until Feb 12th), LAUSD Teachers thought they would have been able to get $11.85 million dollars in projects, they barely got $4 million funded. Only about a 1/3 of our projects were funded, some schools got barely anything.
Mr. Deasy, I'm still angry about that backhanded "gift card" situation. You know why? The teachers at our school weren't greedy, they wanted rugs for the kids to read on, they wanted easels for the kids to see the books, and a set of books, they wanted basic supplies! YOU TOOK THAT AWAY from them. SUPPLIES!! So, I stopped trusting you http://rdsathene.blogspot.com/2014/03/lausd-parent-writes-about-john-deasy.html
The teachers, administrators, parents, but especially the students deserve better
By Crystal Smith
Mr. Deasy, I'm still angry about that backhanded "gift card" situation. You know why? The teachers at our school weren't greedy, they wanted rugs for the kids to read on, they wanted easels for the kids to see the books, and a set of books, they wanted basic supplies! YOU TOOK THAT AWAY from them. SUPPLIES!! So, I stopped trusting you http://rdsathene.blogspot.com/2014/03/lausd-parent-writes-about-john-deasy.html