LAUSD ENDS TEACHERS JAIL- WHY NOW?
The recent decision by LAUSD's General Counsel David Holmquist to no longer require the housing of teachers at LAUSD offices during school hours, while teachers were under supposed investigation of the charges against them, seems to pose more questions than it answers.
1. If it's okay now to allow these teachers to remain at home, what is different? Why couldn't this have been done years ago, instead of the mass incarceration of teachers who should have been presumed innocent until proven guilty by the District in a neutral forum, where LAUSD- and not the teacher- had the obligation of showing culpable actions on the part of the teacher in a timely manner and not the purposefully protracted process designed to break teachers will and ability to defend their innocence.
2. If Holmquist now feels its okay to allow teachers to be housed at their homes, why has he done a complete about face on this issue, what has changed? Why in the recent past have some teachers been kept incarcerated for over 4 years, while the charges against them were supposedly being investigated, but now its okay to let them be at home during the school work day? In the past, LAUSD justified the incarceration of teachers as motivated by protecting students from these alleged bad/immoral teachers. As a matter of course, LAUSD has hit almost every teacher it goes after with an alleged violation of California Education Code 44939- a morals charge. This is done so that teachers can be ultimately deprived of salary and benefits in a move by LAUSD to make it harder for targeted teachers to resist their firing. So what's different now?
3 Up until this cancellation of "teacher jail" by Holmquist, how come some teachers were incarcerated for as little as two hours, but other teachers spent a full 6 hours required to remain at LAUSD offices doing nothing in complete isolation? Did any of this have to do with the inflammatory nature of images of teachers being shown by the media sitting around a room and getting paid to do absolutely nothing?
4. Is there any good faith belief on the part of any administrator at LAUSD that teachers confined to "rubber rooms" have really done LAUSD ENDS TEACHERS JAIL- WHY NOW? - Perdaily.com:
