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Catch Phrases and Word Salad from a K-6 LAUSD school. [View all]
Witness these crushingly strained compositions that only a state educational grant writer could love, or comprehend, proudly flying on a banner.
The banner is above the steps of a Los Angeles Unified Elementary School, where the students are predominantly from non-English speaking homes.
56% English Language learners, 100% Free/reduced Federal Lunch Program, I wonder who is supposed to read these words at this K-6 school.


Do I really have to ask the question, "What the Fuck is Wrong with Schools??"
Oh, also, this is the school that was shut down temporarily following the discovery that a teacher was serving cookies topped with his own semen, and taking pictures of the kids eating them, and other stuff.
Here's the teacher, Mark Berndt:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/08/miramonte-school-scandal-_n_1262713.html
http://miramontees-lausd-ca.schoolloop.com/
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Little K-6ers walk under those banners every day and haven't a clue what they say or mean.
NYC_SKP
Jul 2012
#3
Yep, catch phrases common to most every front office think tank waste of effort in education.
NYC_SKP
Jul 2012
#13
The same corporatists who issued the mandate that schools must have a mission statement.
HiPointDem
Jul 2012
#15
the requirement to have a mission statement comes from upper administration. and the idea
HiPointDem
Jul 2012
#14
Regardless of who hung the banners, that they hang there at all proved a broken system.
NYC_SKP
Jul 2012
#16
feds = run by education deformers. all large districts = run by education deformers. ubiquitousness
HiPointDem
Jul 2012
#19
you & margaret thatcher: tina. if you're in "education" i'm sure you don't need me to educate
HiPointDem
Jul 2012
#21