Parent Revolution

News Flash: the LAUSD school board voted yesterday to form a committee to study whether the bureaucracy should be able to fire child molester teachers. 

Some school board members touted this as a historic victory for children, which will reverberate through the annals of education reform history.  Board member Tamar Galatzan lectured UTLA President A.J. Duffy: "With all due respect, Mr. Duffy, you're on the wrong side of history on this issue.”  While Duffy is a nice guy, you’ll get no argument from me that he’s on the wrong side of history.  But the board members who think we need a commission to study whether we should fire child molesters stand side-by-side with Duffy. 

We are living in a Revolutionary moment, where these Alice-in-Wonderland tactics don’t work anymore.  They may try to drag the parents of Los Angeles through that rabbit hole – but all of us know that we don’t need a committee to study whether we need true accountability, a lean bureaucracy or anything else that’s good for kids, not bureaucrats. As parents, we know that our kids only get one chance at a great public education.  We can’t wait for committees, studies, pilot programs or any other half measure. 

The Parent Revolution is about taking back our schools NOW, dragging the LAUSD kicking and screaming into the 21^st Century, and empowering every parent in Los Angelesto provide their child with the education they need and the future they deserve.

So, thanks for the committee.  Give our regards to the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat.  We’ll see you at the Revolution.