Ugh!

Tidbits from the last three weeks:

Half of all art & music positions will be eliminated next year, and the remaining ones will be cut the year after.  In 2012, there will be no art, music, dance, or theater teachers in LAUSD.

A teacher who went down to file paperwork at Beaudry (the district-owned skyscraper downtown) told me they’re now locking the cubicle areas.  She needed to use the restrooms, and so, was let in.  There she saw tens of people just hanging out, checking their email, chatting, basically doing nothing.  And they want to cut teachers!

A local mini-district superintendent (say that ten times fast!) visited our school smiling a lot, saying nothing, and wearing 3-inch heels and a short skirt.  That’s how teachers know someone’s not really a teacher and is on their way to the bureaucratic side.  They wear shoes & clothes that are impossible to get down and dirty with kids in.  They buy a Mercedes or Beemer.  They smile and say nothing that means anything.

Her visit was followed last week by 12 (yes, that’s right, 12!) administrators who walked through our classrooms for three hours, and then took a long lunch during which they checked their email and calendars and phone messages, and then disappeared, presumably to debrief.  12 administrators @ ~$60/hour (administrator pay scales begin where teacher pay scales end) x 6 hours (you know they counted this as their whole day!) = $4320.

That’s a very expensive DAY for us!

That’s almost the cost of an aide for half a YEAR.

And what came of it?

You guessed it.

Nothing.

Zero.

Zilch.

Well, that’s not completely true.

I now know how a penguin feels when we watch it inside its exhibit.

Free the penguins!

Cut the administrators!

Share on Facebook