Amateur Hour at LA Unified

Those of us who have worked in the grossly dysfunctional world of public education know how administrators often flout the law, with many thinking they ARE the law, but this turkey former dean went one better.  She thought she knew more than police.

The kicker is one of the comments notes she is actually an attorney:

Armando Mejia, Custodio's immediate supervisor, was a lazy buffoon who allowed her to do as she pleased and made no effort whatever to assure that either District guidelines or federal law were respected; I suspect he was neither aware nor genuinely concerned about either the law or the students.  His method of supervision was to sit in his office listening to Dr. Joyce and ordering takeout which "his" campus aides were to fetch for him. 

Dr. Laura Lee Custodio (who is, astonishingly, a practicing attorney) persistently disregarded District guidelines, the California Education Code and - in the case of special education students - federal law in implementing  her rigid, "one size fits all" discipline policies during the time I served at Porter Middle School.  She was counseled many times regarding the necessity of consulting special education students' Individualized Educational and Behavior Support plans when dealing with them, but her response was, "The police won't care if he has an  I.E.P."  Since a large percentage of the students whom she termed "frequent flyers" in the Dean's Office were, indeed, students with disabilities, her stubborn refusal to respect their individual needs and challenges often resulted in violations of their rights.  Students whose eligibility is "emotionally disturbed" are unlikely to respond to such cultivated ignorance. Con't. below...

Some of the comments responding to hers are very self-serving.  Anyway, the dean was demoted to teacher while her superiors retired.  Meanwhile, a jury awarded the family a million bucks, which is way excessive.