TEACHERS WHO JUST DON’T CARE
BY KARIN KLEIN OF THE LA TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD IN THE OPINION LA BLOG | HTTP://BIT.LY/URFMAX
Illustration by Peter Bennett / For The Times
November 18, 2011 | 9:53 am - We can talk all day about test scores and what they tell, do, or don't tell us about the worth of a teacher, but most parents know the good and bad teachers on campus from a mile away. I was reminded of that at Thursday night's meeting of the school board at the Santa Monica-Malibu School District, which was mostly about whether the donations of parents at the rich schools in Malibu should be put in a central pot for use by students at all the district schools -- more coming on that next week.
But one mother spoke on a very different topic. It seems her Santa Monica school had instituted a new system that informed parents
