Once the shining beacon of public education – Southern California educators have recently exposed their abandonment of scholastic achievement in favor their crazy pathological ideology – and they are bragging about it! What are they smoking in the board meetings?
Perhaps you missed it. It made the news for a couple of days and was subsequently shoved quietly under the rug of media collusion. After all, the rationalization for it is hardly defensible. Californians possessed with a modicum of common sense could hardly stomach the hubris with which the educational establishment blithely defended one more snowflake in the avalanche of stupidity responsible for the continued decline of a school system that only forty-five years ago was the best in the world. Without the alternate media of the internet this story would have disappeared unobtrusively. God bless the bloggers who shined a light on it before the dinosaur media could obfuscate and hide another horrendous fiscal malfeasance.
Of course I mean the recent announcement of the Los Angeles County School District to spend 120 million dollars to install solar panels on district schools. They bragged that they were setting an "example for other school districts to follow". These academic bozos spoke glowingly of the LAUSD leading public school systems across the country as a model of "green" operational enlightenment. Wow, sounds pretty impressive, doesn't it? They are going to show the whole nation how to capture clean energy from the sun and reduce the school systems energy costs. For a mere 120 million dollars they bragged they could save the school district a whopping 5 million dollars per year! Did you catch that? LAUSD braniacs figured how to save 5 million taxpayer dollars in the worst recession since the great depression by spending 120 million dollars. With that kind of "savings" it will take twenty-four years to recoup their investment and break even! What a deal. No wonder student math scores are in such a rapid decline. Doesn't anybody in the Los Angeles schools have a calculator? Didn't anyone bother to divide 5 million into 120 million before they scheduled their embarrassing press conferences?
Apparently not. According to David Crippins, chairman of the district's school construction bond oversight committee, "We are fighting for our economic lives," calling the plan, "absolutely essential, because we must become energy independent and, especially here in California, we must create our own jobs." This from the chairman of the bond oversight committee. In the midst of massive teacher layoffs and pay-cutting the feckless leader of fiscal responsibility for district cites "fighting for our economic lives" as justification for recklessly spending an obscene amount of tax dollars on a scheme that makes no sense economically. I don't know what the functional life of a solar panels is, but I would be surprised if it exceeds twenty years. And if not, this hair-brained project may never recoup its cost. But of course, that doesn't really matter. The taxpayers will foot the bill. Educational administrators look at the American worker as an endless well of revenue. It doesn't have to make economic sense. The important thing is their commitment to ideology. "Green" technology is one of their many socio-economic causes du jour – logic and common sense be damned. What they want is an opportunity to stand in front of the cameras and thump their chests and crow about how enlightened they are – I mean, how cool – they're going "green"!
This is just one more example of the extremist ideology trumping common sense in our public school systems. It is difficult to understand how the educational establishment can be so oblivious to the effects of their fanatical commitment to their political dogma. It is a sad fact that the longer American students are exposed to our public school systems the farther behind they fall scholastically compared to students from other countries. And yet, I recently heard an "educator" taking calls from angry parents on a radio show defending the system and talking down to the callers repeatedly citing his "forty-five years of experience" as grounds for his superior expertise. Listening to this ignoramus all I could think about was how humiliated he should have been to admit that he had even been any part of such a dis-functional and inefficient system. He should of been ashamed to admit it, instead of holding it up as some sort of credential justifying his professional qualifications. Yet there he was, petulantly telling the parents he knew better than they did. It was like the helmsman at the wheel of the Titanic when it hit the iceberg citing that experience as the reason he should be teaching aspiring ship pilots.
The apex of American student SAT scores was 1964 – Got that? For forty-six years the "progressive" educational curriculum of our public schools has slowly eroded the scholastic competence of our students. Dropout rates are increasing. School violence has proliferated to the point we need armed officers on campus. Many High School graduates cannot even read their diplomas or place Mexico against a map of the United States, but our educational establishment is hell bent on continuing its headlong nosedive into academic decline in pursuit of their misguided ideology. As evidenced by the hapless self-righteous indignation of the bonehead on the radio and the illogical rationalization of the "bond oversight" committee chairman, there is little hope the educational establishment will wake up and chart a different course on its own. These career parasites need to be removed and replaced with new leaders with fresh innovative ideas. To accomplish real, positive change our public schools need revitalization from imaginative leadership committed to effective education rather than ideologues zealots bent on promulgating their political philosophy. Only the people have the power to accomplish this and it will have to be done at the polls.
Next election don't just vote out the career politicians, vote out the academic dinosaurs on the public school boards. Get rid of the arrogant school leadership – like the High School Principal that recently sent a memo to a parent telling her "To eat shit and die" for daring to think she should have some influence in what the school taught her children. Replace them with anybody untainted by the current system. Or would you rather subject you children to educators that can't work a calculator, but know in their hearts that political ideology is more important than math, economics or common sense?
I think it was Fritz Pearls that said insanity is repeating the same behavior over and over while expecting a different outcome – What does it make you if you keep repeating the same behavior over and over while the results just keep getting worse – public school establishment administrators?
Perhaps you missed it. It made the news for a couple of days and was subsequently shoved quietly under the rug of media collusion. After all, the rationalization for it is hardly defensible. Californians possessed with a modicum of common sense could hardly stomach the hubris with which the educational establishment blithely defended one more snowflake in the avalanche of stupidity responsible for the continued decline of a school system that only forty-five years ago was the best in the world. Without the alternate media of the internet this story would have disappeared unobtrusively. God bless the bloggers who shined a light on it before the dinosaur media could obfuscate and hide another horrendous fiscal malfeasance.
Of course I mean the recent announcement of the Los Angeles County School District to spend 120 million dollars to install solar panels on district schools. They bragged that they were setting an "example for other school districts to follow". These academic bozos spoke glowingly of the LAUSD leading public school systems across the country as a model of "green" operational enlightenment. Wow, sounds pretty impressive, doesn't it? They are going to show the whole nation how to capture clean energy from the sun and reduce the school systems energy costs. For a mere 120 million dollars they bragged they could save the school district a whopping 5 million dollars per year! Did you catch that? LAUSD braniacs figured how to save 5 million taxpayer dollars in the worst recession since the great depression by spending 120 million dollars. With that kind of "savings" it will take twenty-four years to recoup their investment and break even! What a deal. No wonder student math scores are in such a rapid decline. Doesn't anybody in the Los Angeles schools have a calculator? Didn't anyone bother to divide 5 million into 120 million before they scheduled their embarrassing press conferences?
Apparently not. According to David Crippins, chairman of the district's school construction bond oversight committee, "We are fighting for our economic lives," calling the plan, "absolutely essential, because we must become energy independent and, especially here in California, we must create our own jobs." This from the chairman of the bond oversight committee. In the midst of massive teacher layoffs and pay-cutting the feckless leader of fiscal responsibility for district cites "fighting for our economic lives" as justification for recklessly spending an obscene amount of tax dollars on a scheme that makes no sense economically. I don't know what the functional life of a solar panels is, but I would be surprised if it exceeds twenty years. And if not, this hair-brained project may never recoup its cost. But of course, that doesn't really matter. The taxpayers will foot the bill. Educational administrators look at the American worker as an endless well of revenue. It doesn't have to make economic sense. The important thing is their commitment to ideology. "Green" technology is one of their many socio-economic causes du jour – logic and common sense be damned. What they want is an opportunity to stand in front of the cameras and thump their chests and crow about how enlightened they are – I mean, how cool – they're going "green"!
This is just one more example of the extremist ideology trumping common sense in our public school systems. It is difficult to understand how the educational establishment can be so oblivious to the effects of their fanatical commitment to their political dogma. It is a sad fact that the longer American students are exposed to our public school systems the farther behind they fall scholastically compared to students from other countries. And yet, I recently heard an "educator" taking calls from angry parents on a radio show defending the system and talking down to the callers repeatedly citing his "forty-five years of experience" as grounds for his superior expertise. Listening to this ignoramus all I could think about was how humiliated he should have been to admit that he had even been any part of such a dis-functional and inefficient system. He should of been ashamed to admit it, instead of holding it up as some sort of credential justifying his professional qualifications. Yet there he was, petulantly telling the parents he knew better than they did. It was like the helmsman at the wheel of the Titanic when it hit the iceberg citing that experience as the reason he should be teaching aspiring ship pilots.
The apex of American student SAT scores was 1964 – Got that? For forty-six years the "progressive" educational curriculum of our public schools has slowly eroded the scholastic competence of our students. Dropout rates are increasing. School violence has proliferated to the point we need armed officers on campus. Many High School graduates cannot even read their diplomas or place Mexico against a map of the United States, but our educational establishment is hell bent on continuing its headlong nosedive into academic decline in pursuit of their misguided ideology. As evidenced by the hapless self-righteous indignation of the bonehead on the radio and the illogical rationalization of the "bond oversight" committee chairman, there is little hope the educational establishment will wake up and chart a different course on its own. These career parasites need to be removed and replaced with new leaders with fresh innovative ideas. To accomplish real, positive change our public schools need revitalization from imaginative leadership committed to effective education rather than ideologues zealots bent on promulgating their political philosophy. Only the people have the power to accomplish this and it will have to be done at the polls.
Next election don't just vote out the career politicians, vote out the academic dinosaurs on the public school boards. Get rid of the arrogant school leadership – like the High School Principal that recently sent a memo to a parent telling her "To eat shit and die" for daring to think she should have some influence in what the school taught her children. Replace them with anybody untainted by the current system. Or would you rather subject you children to educators that can't work a calculator, but know in their hearts that political ideology is more important than math, economics or common sense?
I think it was Fritz Pearls that said insanity is repeating the same behavior over and over while expecting a different outcome – What does it make you if you keep repeating the same behavior over and over while the results just keep getting worse – public school establishment administrators?
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