LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy: "3 LAUSD teachers should have been fired without a hassle"
I would agree with Superintendent Deasy that it shouldn't take years to get rid of the few dangerous and incompetent teachers. However, it is LAUSD that stalls, because it knows that teachers put in "teachers jail" or on unpaid administrative leave without benefits find it almost impossible to lawyer up and defend themselves in a system that should presume them innocent until LAUSD IN A NEUTRAL FORUM is capable of proving they have done something that warrants their firing by a preponderance of the evidence. Hitting virtually ever unjustly targeted teacher with a fabricated morals charge under Ed. Code 44939 to leapfrog over their collective bargaining rights to grievance and arbitration has become common place in LAUSD/Deasy's attack on teachers.
The nature of law is that somebody like Superintendent Deasy who is subjectively involved and a party in favoring teacher dismissals should not be the person to determine who stays and who gets fired. In my own case after an exemplary 23 career at both the secondary and university levels without any negative marks against me, two weeks after I reported that my school was graduating students with low elementary school reading abilities- some as low as 2nd grade- I was hit with 4 notices of unsatisfactory acts and 4 suspensions that were signed by my principal's superior as much as 57 days before I even had my "hearing"- it was already a done deal. Due process?
While testing a student for diabetes is ill-advised without parent permission, viewed in the context of a district with a 73% Latino population that has a 50% higher Type 2 diabetes rate than the general population, one can at least understand the teachable moment that this Type 2 diabetes suffering teacher felt. Should she be sanctioned? Yes. Should she lose her job after an exemplary decades long career, absolutely no. What somehow avoids being mentioned is that this teacher won her case at the Office of Administrative Hearing (OAH), sitting as the legally constituted neutral forum as Committee of Professional Competency. Did LAUSD put her back to work- no. They appealed to Superior Court. Now they have lost their, but still refuse to put this teacher back to work. Is LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy: "3 LAUSD teachers should have been fired without a hassle" - Perdaily.com: