Before LAUSD Decides to Threaten Teachers to Get

their houses in order or face termination, the district administrators had better be getting THEIR act together.

This Isenberg case is a classic case of a teacher who tried to be ethical and now faces career ruin because he did his job.

This was from last May, but I thought I'd share this story with readers.

I LOVE this snip, which can be applied to Washoe County School District and almost every school district in the United States:

Over all, the impression I got was one of administrators running LAUSD schools like totalitarian regimes with the indiscriminant ability to discipline, uproot, or suspend teachers, a wanton disregard for the laws, policies, rules, and regulations -- not to mention civil rights -- that should govern their behavior, and no consequences for breaching their responsibilities.

Teachers, in turn, are little more than indentured servants with little recourse to act against this administrative fascism, despite a union that is supposed to defend them. In fact, the UTLA is, in the words of one teacher, "in the pocket of LAUSD. Their participation in this charade gives the appearance of due process when none exists." It seems like anyone with any power is in cahoots with everyone else. When due process does occur, it is usually months or years delayed, there are conflicts of interest galore, and teachers must find their way through a bureaucratic labyrinth of epic proportion.

I don't know if all this administrative malfeasance is truly rampant throughout the LAUSD system, just among schools that serve disadvantaged students (which is where the teachers to whom I spoke taught), or are simply isolated cases of a few bad apples. Or, more disturbing, whether the LAUSD is indicative of similar school districts around the U.S. But there is enough evidence to suggest that there is a real problem that is begging for attention.

It is rampant all over the country, and it is getting worse. As long as naive people go into this shithole of an occupation, school districts will continue to treat teachers like garbage.

Apeaking of LAUSD, here is a 2008 YouTube of a teacher who was forced out of teaching early thanks to getting into trouble for reporting a female administrator going into a boys' locker room--a HUGE no-no in education and grounds for license revocation. The assistant principal he reported of course wasn't fired but moved up the career ladder. The worse these assholes are, the better they do.

No matter; this guy ultimately lost his case against LAUSD.