Thoughts From A “Retired” LAUSD Parent
The fallout of emptying one’s nest is not quite as expected. How long it takes to accumulate dishes enough to justify running the dishwasher; how different is the consumption-spectrum of groceries; how discombobulating it is to manage unsplintered stretches of time – these are some of what is surprising.
But what remains undiminished, if not firmer, is the self-evident truth that education is an unalienable right and the rich are colluding in ways that deny it from the poor.
The palpable feel about town is overwhelming support for UTLA teachers. It’s been puzzling for a decade or more how the reputation of the apple-wielding teacher could have changed so and in such short-order. Gone was the iconic arbiter of fairness and love, even if sometimes tough, the benevolent overseer, champion of and ally in the hard work of learning. She was replaced in reputation by a feckless closet-predator with the temerity to draw public wages for their schema.
It turns out this revolution in perception is neither ‘just one of those innocent things’ nor happenstance. It is a concerted effort to devalue, degrade and deskill teachers, to “soften the market” for corporate takeover. And it turns out everyone on the street seems to have kinda known this. Write it out and it looks like paranoia. Live it and you can feel the truth, palpably.
To and from today’s tremendous rally in front of LA’s City Hall, you could feel CONTINUE READING: Thoughts From A “Retired” LAUSD Parent – redqueeninla