The Teacher-Trashing Los Angeles Times

admits there are some good teachers in the LAUSD, but they remain hidden. Generally those are the older, more experienced types, you know, the ones who have "tenure," which the paper despises. After all, its reporters don't even know what public school "tenure" is, as it bears little resemblance to college and university "tenure."

(These teachers have only the "right" to a rigged hearing. That's it for "tenure." Since the "due process" hearings in California are similar to Nevada's, fraud and flouting administrative law are rampant by school districts.)

Naturally the principals often don't know who these "effective" teachers are because most of them don't know their ass from a hole in the ground about teaching. Most of them were failed teachers, to say nothing of being failed human beings, but thanks to some kind of family or political connections, they got promoted to supervisory positions. As I have said repeatedly, these principal jobs are not ordinary supervisor jobs. Principals possess unbelievable amounts of power to ruin teachers.

Don't expect the "reporters" at the Los Angeles Times to tell the truth about public education, that the real problem is with administrators who aren't held accountable for their actions. After all, the paper is peddling the same horseshit the vulture philanthropists are pushing.

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