Ex-LAPD insider: corrupt Democrats have deliberately turned LA schools into war zone

ModernConservative.com ^ | Clark Baker

[connell]

...after 30 years of the institutionalized intellectual vandalism of our city’s most precious and needy children, when will we call it DELIBERATE regularity? If LAUSD was a private company, it would have collapsed a generation ago like the stinking necrotic tumor it is.

LAUSD is a criminal enterprise – a $30 billion dollar (allegedly $11B operations, $21B construction) protection racket that extorts tax dollars under the pretext of improvement and higher scores. It makes schools I’ve seen in Calcutta, Rio, and Nairobi look like Cal Tech and MIT.

....LAUSD makes us lament the good old days before Brown v. Board of Education, when Democrats merely segregated minority children. What could we expect from school district officials after BROWN when, the day before, they supported segregation? When Republicans demanded an end to discrimination, Democrats responded by shuffling children in buses so that they could join gangs, do drugs, and get shot in other neighborhoods.

Like all other tumors, LAUSD cannot be fixed. It demands removal. Compared to LA City’s $6.5B budget for our 4,300,000 residents, LAUSD’s bloated $30 billion could be divided among its 650,000 students who could then pursue a real education with vouchers and charters. I suspect that Democrats oppose vouchers not because they don't work, but because affluent Democrats don't want their children to compete for seats in their own private schools far from the riff-raff of low-income families they pretend to care for.

If you disagree, how much more “disturbing regularity” do we plan to tolerate? As parents and voters, we have the power to change this. LAUSD is the lifeblood of the California Democrat Party:


Our Attorney General will not close down the operation that has fed his campaigns since the 1970s. Republicans might not...

[connell]

Ain’t that the truth! I know the author personally, and I know he understands that concept quite well too.

[DumpsterDiver]

I do not think the $30 billion could be correct.

I agree with you. The article states that the budget for L.A. city is $6.5 billion per year and that sounds about right. I've read that LAUSD's annual budget is larger than the city's, but I'm sure it's not $30 billion.

These numbers need to be verified.

I'm too lazy to do that right now. ;^)

[cowboy_code]

as an ex-LAUSD retired uncredentialed worker, I know about the mis-management and waste in the schools. There is so much waste and unethical matters in the ‘facility support’ and ‘transportation’ departments. Major leaders in those divisions were caught in abusing their responsibilities and were only moved around to another geographical area with a small letter reprimand in their personel files. Staff were never prosecuted criminally or had to pay back those misused moneys.
Years ago, schools were to be totally non-political and unpartisan to not complicate matters. Now the schools are used to prop-up and campaigne for major elected officials or their pet views in LA. (One example was students walking out of schools to protest the enforcement of established federal immigration laws.) It makes a bad LAUSD situation much worse. It should be breaken up because it’s too large.

[agere_contra]

$46153.85 per student per year.

Geebus. That's ... astonishing. Astonishing.

[Kevmo]

I can believe it, but it will be hard to prove.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts
Posted on 11/15/2007 3:43:17 AM PST by Kevmo

[Surtur]

The original meaning for the word sinister means “on the left”. It is very appropriate usage of the language IMO.

[paul51]

How did the students get to be how they are, in your view?

Spending too much time in the schools

[paul51]

I do not think the $30 billion could be correct.

It looks as though he is including 20B of long term construction costs

[mo]

Freepmail me.....

[gracesdad]

It appears the operating budget for this year is $19.8 billion. LA is also building a pile of new schools, I believe.

[17th Miss Regt]

gives $46153.85 per student per year. I wonder how much of that gets to the actual classrooms.

The 85 cents. What's your gripe?

[Cymbaline]

At least a dollar would be nice. Of course, then the Union boss wouldn’t be able to buy as nice a pair of speakers for his wife’s BMW, so it probably won’t happen.

[connell]

I asked the author about it, and this was his reply:

I read that LAUSD’s operating budget for 2007 was $11 billion this year.  I haven’t found a new link for it.  Their budget was reported at $13.367B in 2005 (page 34) and their construction bond was $19.2B, until it was raised this year.

Ask the inquiring freeper to save the links ASAP.  LAUSD has a way of killing links like these before challenging my numbers…  I was surprised to see the $19B link back up – it’s been dead for a few months…

[connell]

Ha! Exactly!

[DumpsterDiver]

Thanks for that information. In my opinion, LAUSD has too much money at its disposal!

[quant5]

Great math my friend. Of course vouchers won’t be offered for private schools. The Socialst Left cannot propogandize them if they go to private schools.

[cowboy_code]

Also I wanted to add that LAUSD wants more over-crowed classes because they get federal co-pays per student in $38.00 a piece. The more students under the roof, the more co-pays from the federal govt.

[ex-Liberal in Hollywood]

Out of about $49K in per-student spending, somewhere between $5K and $9K gets into classrooms...