WHY LENNY ISENBERG WILL NEVER BE LAUSD SUPERINTENDENT - Perdaily.com:
WHY LENNY ISENBERG WILL NEVER BE LAUSD SUPERINTENDENT
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While I'm probably the last person in the world the Los Angeles Unified School District's (LAUSD) entrenched and purposefully dysfunction leadership would like to have take them up on their clearly disengenuous offer to help them find a new superintendent to replace the habitually retiring and morally challenged Ramon Cortines, I will push on nonetheless and let you the reader determine if what I propose makes more sense than what they have been doing purposefully wrong for generations.
For a long time the purpose of LAUSD has not been to educate students, but rather function exclusively to serve the financial and political interests of its corporate vendor population that would actually be threatened if those exiting public education in the 12th grade had enough mastery of K-12 academic standards like math and English to question why LAUSD pays significantly over fair market value for almost all goods and services it receives (see Belmont and Ambassador Hotel school construction contracts for starters). Take note of the inherent conflicts of interest that always permeate all LAUSD contract negotiations- even this process of superintendent selection- that never are questioned by any local, state, or federal regulatory agency. Why is that?
This is all the more offensive to the fundamental public interest to see children educated, since the exclusive rationale for the very existence of a dysfunctional behemoth like LAUSD- the second largest public school district in the country- is what is called the economics of scale. An enormous entity with the buying power of LAUSD should pay far less than anybody else, but winds up in this dytopic reality always paying more for virtually everything it uses, with the noteable except of teachers, which it continues to drive from the profession- those with the most seniority are first to go- while discouraging idealistic young people from ever considering teaching in the first place.
Key to changing LAUSD for the better is challenging an incestuous process where the primary requirement for ever being considered for the post of superintendent is ensuring LAUSD's entrenched bureaucracy- and the greedy corporate interests that keep them in power- you will never challenge the clearly illegal feeding frenzy that continues to go on at LAUSD at taxpayer expense.
In examining just one qualification for being considered superintendent, it should become perfectly clear that those who presently pick the superintendent have no intention of having a superintendent who could ever have the skill set to challenge the corporate interests that continue to predominate over critical education priorities. Why is having been a teacher with no business or legal background a prerequisite for being chosen to run a multi-billion dollar public education business entity like LAUSD? This clearly makes no sense, since this only assures that the WHY LENNY ISENBERG WILL NEVER BE LAUSD SUPERINTENDENT - Perdaily.com:
