With teachers and organized labor rallying against what they called an unnecessary attack on their rights, a bill that would make it easier to fire teachers and administrators accused of serious sexual and violent offenses against children failed to pass the Assembly Education Committee on Wednesday. Sen. Alex Padilla’s controversial SB 1530 will be dead [...]
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Please note that the legislation was intended to bypass due process rights of those ACCUSED of misconduct. Anyone can accuse anyone else for almost anything, and sometimes do. Since the Salem Witch Trials it has been the tradition in this country to protect the due process rights of the accused.
This does not mean that teachers who have a credible charge of misconduct cannot currently be immediately be removed from the classroom. They can be, and are. Then the due process re the accused’s employment kicks in. Based on hearings and evidence, not accusations.
LAUSD had the opportunity to prevent abuse by reporting instances of teacher misconduct to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing. LAUSD failed to do that and received a reprimand for this violation of statute. Many of the “howls of outrage” coming from the direction of LAUSD right now can be attributed to efforts to divert public attention from district culpability.
Perhaps Mr. Muench believes “choice’ options should be available so students can attend places like the very elite Horace Mann Prep School in New York? If you check the New York Times recently you can read about the decades of sexual abuse of students that went on at that, private, elite, school of “choice.”
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If I’m understanding the situation right, LAUSD missed the situation entirely until it totally blew up. The discussion often implies that LAUSD was trying to deal with Berndt but was somehow hamstrung, which (as I understand it) is simply not true.
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LAUSD seems to have more problems with dismissals than smaller districts.
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If our legislators believe that nothing can prevent another Miramonte, then I would say it is incumbent upon them to create more school choice options.
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