According to the latest report, the Los Angeles district administration has abandoned its investigation of a 40-year-old complaint against super star teacher Rafe Esquit alleging shoving or sexual abuse and is now poring through the financial records of his independent group, the Hobart Shakespeareans. Esquith has not been informed about the charges against him.
The LA School Report says:
Now, the investigation is turning toward Esquith’s nonprofit group which is independent from LAUSD and is run by an independent board of directors. Esquith gets no salary from the Shakespeareans, and in fact donates thousands of dollars of his own money to the group, which was started because of cuts in the arts by LAUSD.
The group teaches students how to perform Shakespeare plays, and has been profiled by CBS, Time, Washington Post, PBS and other national media outlets.
The recent request for documentation came from Scheper Kim & Harris, a law firm outside of LAUSD.
“These investigations become self-fulfilling prophecies,” Meiselas said. “This is a program that has changed people’s lives.”
Actors such as Ian McKellen, Hal Holbrook, John Lithgow and Michael York have visited and praised the Hobart Shakespeareans, and donated money to the group. On its website, 17 groups and individuals have pledged $10,000 or more to them, including William McClatchy, the Roth Family Foundation, Peter and Helen Bing and The Vanguard Group. At least 19 others have donated $5,000.
None of the students or parents involved with the Hobart Shakespeareans has complained about Esquith, who was awarded Disney National Outstanding Teacher of the Year, among other awards. Because of his “teacher jail” status, the dozen sold-out performances planned this year were canceled, as well as a July trip to Oregon for a Shakespeare Theatrical Festival.
This is a bizarre situation. The sooner LAUSD winds it up, the better for all concerned.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
The LAUSD Board of Education and the Superintendent (whoever he is) have always been the center of the attention in the district—it should be the schools, the students, and the educators.
When notable teachers like Rafe Esquith and Iris Stevenson receive international and national acclaim, it goes against the grain of downtown where the spotlight is supposed to be directed on those at Beaudry. So they attempt to shine a negative flame upon those teachers.
This is a witch hunt.
Cortines, who Zimmer and the BoE put in charge of a search for a new Supt. to replace himself, should leave tomorrow…and we need to consider recalling some of these Board members. This group of laughingly, self assessed power players, should only be allowed to play the hind end of a horse.
What part does Eli Broad play in this farce? A 501c3 with its own Board of Directors, self financed, is not beholden to these morons and monsters who inhabit the taxpayers fancy Beaudry building in downtown LA.
This group found nothing to charge Esquith with so now they are only looking for ways to insult and demean him.
Cortines must go now!
Zimmer, Vladovic, and McKenna, a current old boys club, colluded to keep Monica Ratliff from having her rightful role on this politically charged BoE…but at this point the only two people I trust, so far, are Ratliff and new member, Schmerelson. The rest can take a hike. Prove me wrong, Zimmer.
Here’s the latest (as of Sunday, July 19)
from WashPost’s Jay Mathews, and
keep in mind that Jay Mathews knows
Rafe personally, and is in contact
with Rafe’s legal team, so I’d believe this
latest:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/la-district-continues-to-persecute-one-of-the-nations-best-teachers/2015/07/19/56ec5c60-2b43-11e5-a5ea-cf74396e59ec_story.html
NEWEST DETAILS —
JAY MATHEWS: “Esquith is being
treated like a Wall Street cheat. On July 8,
the district’s investigators asked him for all
of his tax returns, loan and bank records
since 2000, giving no reason.”
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WTF???!!! Why on earth would
investigators want or need to view
this man’s last 15 years of tax returns,
bank statements, loan documents
(home, car, etc.. .. I presume)?
These investigators are not law
enforcement, so apparently,
they don’t have to get a judge to
issue subpoenas for these
things. They’re former LAPD detectives
who are LAUSD employees who can
ask whatever they want whenever
they want, and when asked for any
foundation for doing so, can simply
refuse to answer because… well…
because they don’t have to tell you why.
Thus far, no one has complained about
anything pertaining to Rafe’s finances—
specifically as his finances relate to the
non-profit that funds his class field trips,
music instruments, etc. … and that
non-profit is a totally separate entity from
LAUSD, so how and why do LAUSD
investigators claim standing to appoint
themselves as the watchdogs to
investigate it or Rafe for any possible
malfeasance?
This is just weird.
In fact, Rafe’s lawyer mentioned that
Rafe takes no salary from the non-profit,
and in fact donates to it when that’s
needed to cover shortfalls… and that’s
exactly what the board members of the
non-profit told the LAUSD investigators.
If and when Rafe (or any teacher)
refuses their requests, I suppose they
can claim that he’s not cooperating with
the investigation, and then Human
Resources can then use this
non-cooperation as justification for firing
him.
If they were duly authorized law
enforcement, they would need some kind
of proof or testimony as foundation for
requesting a judge’s subpoena to compel
Rafe to turn this stuff over. But they’re not.
As LAUSD Human Resources
pseudo-police, they apparently don’t
need any such foundation. According to
Jay Mathews, when asked why they were
requesting this, the investigators wouldn’t
answer.
This is like something out of Kafka or
Arthur Koestler, with LAUSD investigators
acting like the East German Stasi
Secret Police.
So what if Rafe and/or his lawyer says,
“No, we’re not showing you
my/Rafe’s last 15 years of tax returns, bank
statements, loan
documents, etc.”?
If that was me, I’d tell them to go f— off,
and if and when they fired me for refusing
this asinine request, I’d sue the ever-lovin’
sh– out of them. (Sorry about the profanity…
I’m trying to make a point about how angry
this makes me.)
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More from Jay Mathews:
JAY MATHEWS: “This is an investigation
gone rogue. If it continues, the Los
Angeles school district — previously
devoted to helping its students — is at
risk of not only losing an exceptional
teacher, but also its very soul.”
Indeed, this whole thing getting really wacko.
Can an employee—under threat of being
fired—be compelled by his employer to
turn over private information such as
this—i.e. 15 years of tax returns,
loan documents, monthly bank statements?
I mean, heck, LAUSD why stop there?
Why not demand all your private
diaries or journals?
All your computers with all the personal data,
internet activity, emails etc.?
How about your medical records while
you’re at it?
Your private written correspondence?
This is especially ridiculous in this case, as
the employer refuses to divulge the foundation
for such a demand, or the suspicions, or the
testimony/evidence that warrant this demand
to give up one’s privacy?
And again, THESE INVESTIGATORS ARE
NOT AGENTS OF ACTUAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT!!! They’re retired LAPD
detectives working as bureaucrats
in a public school district!!! WHO THE HELL
DO THESE GUYS THINK THEY ARE???!!!
Dr. Ravitch… if you’re reading this…
in your own life, if a past employer — New
York University? or whomever? — sicced
two investigators on you who, and they
demanded this of you, what
would you have done?
I would have been left utterly speechless.
Could this even be possible in the U.S.?
Whatever happened to the Constitutional
right to privacy?
This is as at least as bad as quid-pro-quo
sexual harassment—i.e. “have sex with me
or you’re fired”— in its enabling of the the
employer to use the threat of losing one’s
job, livelihood, income, etc. as a way to
take away one’s basic civil liberties
and innate human dignity.
This whole thing, and its implications, is way
bigger than Rafe’s case.
If this company has no connection with LAUSD, why is it their business about what goes on there? Witch hunting and false fabrications, This is what happens when teacher’s due process rights are violated. Also, with an ineffective, failed Union, no protection
LAUSD certainly has hutzpah. How can it possibly be sensible, or legal, for the district to comb through the files of an outside organization- especially if no one complained? The board members must realize that they will be turned out by the community. Why go there? It’s as though the administration wants LAUSD to be taken over by the state.
Yes, if they look hard enough they will find some small irregularity. Non-profits are run by busy volunteers. Who hasn’t had an overdraft of their checking account? The community will forgive the Hobart organization, but they will never forgive this witch hunt.
It’s disturbing that they are going after someone that ostensibly makes them look good. I wonder if they overreacted to to the initial incident and now are covering their embarrassment with additional investigation in the hope they can identify something to justify their overeager witchhunt. Why tenure is essential.
And people complain about teacher tenure!? If an administration with the concurrence of a school board can pour over an individual’s entire life to look for some sin for which they can vilify the teacher, how much protection is tenure really providing? Even if all charges(?) against Esquith are dropped and he returns to the classroom, you can be sure there will be no apology and a letter of reprimand/warning placed in his file for using questionable humor with his students.
At least he’s not in a Right to Work state. In those states, teachers just get fired.
Exactly. Teachers in those states are even afraid to write a simple letter to the editor of the local paper. I’ve heard such fears firsthand at a political event. Some of the teachers didn’t want to be filmed for fear that administrators would find out they had been at the political event.
I know of one teacher who felt intimidated enough by Deasy, to stop communication on this blog and with Ravitch. Whether it was justified is unknown but a principal was asked why he couldn’t control his faculty in regard to the teacher’s actions in the district calling attention to an issue.
Charges are irrelevant. Just look at Bill Cosby. There are no charges yet many allegations. Does that mean if Bill Cosby was a teacher, he should be let back in class? If there is credibile evidence, the district will never let the teacher back in. I doubt Esquith will return to class, ever, at least not in LAUSD.
There are no charges against Cosby because the statute of limitations has run out. Your arguments are nonsense. And there’s been no credible evidence come out against Esquith so far. If there were, they would be splashed all over the news.
One of Cosbys accuser has not run out of the statute of limitations. Also, investigations are confidential, that is why nothing has been leaked to the press.
You came back you factless wonder? Now you try to compare one of the best teachers in the country to a slimy comedian? Who are you really? Cortines, or his underling? Identify yourself, or take your garbage elsewhere.
Wow, you don’t give up, do you?
The vast majority of investigations in LAUSD are handled by the union, in the context of the LAUSD/UTLA management contract’s quasi-judicial process. In this realm, witnesses are never sworn in—i.e. under penalty of perjury— and the accused teacher cannot face or cross examine his accuser(s), or any witness(es) supporting the allegations. No one is ever put under oath… unless and until a lawsuit is filed.
That’s what’s maddening about this. If you don’t have the available funds to file a lawsuit, anyone can say anything, telling whatever lied they want to tell whenever they want to tell it, and you have no way to counter it.
What happened in this case is that Marc Bennett—the accuser making allegations of something improper—was told by the LAUSD folks who are targeting Rafe that all you have do to is just make a written and/or verbal statement, and then your involvement is over. That’s the way it usually works when the case is handled in the realm of the union contract’s due process.
The problem here is that Rafe both hired and lawyer—a powerful and prominent one at that, Marc Geragos—and filed a lawsuit, which means that the accuser, Marc Bennett would have had to go under oath in this case. It’s likely that Bennett will also also face a six-figure or seven-figure defamation lawsuit where Bennett, once again, will have to give sworn testimony, which if disproven or recanted later, opens Mr. Bennett up to federal perjury charges, as the case gets kicked up into federal court.
That’s probably why they dropped the 40 year-old accusations like a hot potato, and the accuser Marc Bennett folded like a cheap umbrella. “Hey, wait. You guys said this would never go to court, and I’d never be questioned under oath. I didn’t sign up for that. Who’s gonna pay my legal bills if I lie for you guys, and then I’m tried for perjury? I’m outta here!”
Bye, Bye, Mr. Bennett.
The two investigators now working for L.A. Counsel David Holmquist—retired LAPD detectives Mr. Virgil County, and Mr. Ray Johnson—will also have be put on the stand. If the trial is videotaped, these two will have to go on Court TV (or whatever it’s called these days), and explain how and why they took children out of classrooms, and under whose authority (who signed off on this)… without the consent of parents, or without even informing those parents before or after, and then County and Johnson proceeded to grill individual students two-on-one or two-adults-on-one-child, and with no one protective of those children’s rights or well-being present during this interrogation.
Those children will also go on the stand—perhaps on TV—and tell of this harrowing experience (as detailed in the lawsuit filing BELOW) which they suffered while being interrogated by Mr. County and Mr. Johnson. Holmquist, Superintendent Cortines, Mike Voigt, et al will all be deposed and subpoenaed as well.
Again, here’s the lawsuit:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2111957-la-school-report-21-pra-response-w-docs-2.html
Mr. Esquith’s lawyer, in the court filings, expresses himself eloquently on all of this:
(PAGES 8-9 of the filing)
Mark Geragos, Esq. : “A despicable and shocking investigation took place. Parents of students in Room 56 (Mr. Esquith’s class) confirm that these students were pulled from class, without parental consent, and grilled by adult-male investigators who made derogatory comments about Mr. Esquith.
” … students actually felt threatened by these LAUSD investigators. Parents of those students collectively complained to LAUSD about the harassing conduct at the hands of these LAUSD investigators. Parents complained that their children were removed from the classroom without parental consent. Parents feared for the health and safety of their children based on the investigators’ tactics.
“At least one student’s mental health was seriously, and medically compromised, by the conduct of these LAUSD investigators. The LAUSD investigators asked students, who had never complained about Mr. Esquith, loaded questions such as whether Mr. Esquith had ever done anything ‘bad,’ or anything that the ‘did not like.’ ”
Regarding the treatment and questions asked of Mr. Esquith, Geragos was equally scathing:
(PAGES 11-14)
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2111957-la-school-report-21-pra-response-w-docs-2.html
Mark Geragos, Esq. : “The May 18th Geragos letter also questioned why Mr. Esquith was being directly contacted by LAUSD on substantive matters when Mr. Esquith was known to be represented by attorneys.
“Indeed, directly contacting a represented party on especially significant matters such as this is highly improper, unethical, and anathema to the law. LAUSD was intentionally avoiding proper legal processes.
“… the questions (that were) asked (of) Mr. Esquith followed no interviewing protocol, or any appropriate or logical line of questioning. Counsel for Mr. Esquith took diligent notes of the questions being asked, which included:
“Do you know of any teachers who might not like you? If so, who are they?”
“List the women you dated when you were in college.”
“Were you ever counseled for pushing someone when you were a camp counselor at the JCC Jewish Center Summer Camp you worked at when you were a teenager 40 years ago?”
“Why might teacher X or teacher Y not like your teaching style?”
“Did you ever buy a student a hamburger off school grounds without first getting permission of the student’s parent? Do you know buying students food is against school policy?”
“Why don’t you have a backup plan for someone else for someone else to put on the annual Shakespeare performance, in case, for example, you have a heart attack, so it doesn’t have to be cancelled again like it was last year?”
“The questions, all of which would have been objectionable and completely out-of-line in any legitimate legal process, made clear that there was no clear or defined scope, or any legitimate purpose behind the LAUSD investigation. Nor did investigators reveal the scope or proffer any foundation for the questioning.
“It was patently obvious that LAUSD had used the initial allegations — which had proved meritless — as a pretext to conduct an open-ended investigation, and engage in scurrilous character assassination of Mr. Esquith, and appointed two full-time investigators for this purpose. This experience is shared by hundreds and thousands of other teachers whom LAUSD wanted to (and have) force(d) out under Superintendent Cortines’ regime.
“During the May 27, 2015 hearing, investigators conceded that the ‘initial investigation’ was based on Ms. Hayden’s report. However, the investigators did not state what the current purpose was. When Mr. Esquith responded to questions about teachers who ‘might not like him’, by stating that he is ‘generally supported by tens of millions of teachers throughout the world,’ the investigators responded, ‘the purpose of what we do is to find people who do not like you, not talk to your supporters.’ “
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If all of this ever comes to a trial broadcast on TV, that should make for interesting TV viewing.
They can literally fabricate charges against an unwanted teacher. Teachers have fewer rights than McDonald’s workers. Teachers usually don’t realize until it is too late that they have to have an attorney on retainer in order to keep a teaching job. It has nothing to do with parent suits but with administrator targeting teachers and the completely rigged administrative law system.
Allie Wall, You are INCORRECT. Investigation are NEVER handled by the union. I can’t believe the lies you are spewing. A teacher can file a grievance but this is different. The union has almost no power in these “investigations.”
Barbara,
I think I mis-spoke, or you misunderstood me.
I didn’t mean that the investigations were handled
by UTLA. I meant that, in the vast majority of
THE TEACHERS’ RESPONSES to investigations
by LAUSD, the teacher went to UTLA to
represent them, thinking (wrongly) that the union
would be their white knight riding up on
a white horse and save them… i.e. defend
those teachers through
the filing of a grievance(s).
Rafe is one of the few accused
teachers that instead of availing
himself of a UTLA rep to handle his case,
hired an expensive and prominent lawyer.
(or could afford to, thanks to his
lucrative book sales, which few
teachers have.)
And Barbara, you’re absolutely right.
Going the UTLA route has usually had
limited effectiveness for the teachers
who use UTLA’s services.
Sorry for the misunderstanding.
It happens regardless of the state. Most RTW states have “tenure” statutes–I wish people would QUIT calling post-probationary status that because what K-12 teachers have is NOT lifetime employment unlike college and university teachers and other public employees have the same thing because of a public employment job being a property right (trolls,don’t dispute that last point because it is FACT). School districts can and do get rid of teachers all the time regardless of how long they have been there. They are going after Esquith because he is seen as too old and too expensive.
As someone from Illinois with teacher relatives in other states, I know how “tenure”/due process can be manipulated by administration and school boards no matter the location. Refresh my memory on a public employment job being a property right. I think they are going after Esquith because they saw an opportunity to get rid of an embarrassment: someone who is succeeding in spite of them. It doesn’t hurt that they can get rid of an experienced, more expensive teacher, but Esquith’s working around them must have been particularly galling to those who yearn for teacher subservience. How they would celebrate if they could bring down a teacher icon.
Doesn’t RTW mean only that unions are barred from trying to bargain for agency/fair share fees?
They do this regardless of anything because they are fearful of lawsuits from parents. This is the underbelly of education of which the public is largely unaware. Your tax dollars go for many settlements that would be be even more expensive to pursue. Sometimes these suits are nuisance suits.
In addition, although school districts have in-house law departments, they go outside to hire specialists which are quite expensive and need to show they are worth it.
Teachers must have a reputable lawyer to call on, just in case. And not the union one. Teachers must also have savings for a retainer fee that can be as much as ten thousand dollars.
Teachers also need to be sure that the accused have lawyers, as I once did, not out of kindness or belief in the accused’s innocence, but to protect against the spread of allegations by the district and complainant.
Ultimately the teacher is responsible for his/her own defense just as he/she is for classroom discipline.
Obviously this article is quoting and written from the point of view of Rafes attorneys. I am pretty sure the sexual allegations are still being investigated, in addition to his non-profit.
Factless…go work on Cortines sexual harassment charges. The filing against him shows 14 counts of obscenities. You are obviously a plant here to stir up nonsense.
The sexual assault allegation (singular) was filed 10 years ago. If it is a such a genuine concern to LAUSD, why did they wait so long?
“I am pretty sure the sexual allegations are still being investigated, in addition to his non-profit.”
What are you, Kreskin? Jimmy the Greek? (Boy that sure dates me!)
Nostradamus?
How are you so “sure the sexual investigations are still being investigated?”
And Nostradamus (1503-1566)really dates you.
TAGO… as someone else here sometimes says.
The Broad based Rheeformers are on a fishing expedition turning over rocks to discover anything that might be used to turn this into a scandal—similar to any manufactured political scandal designed to make the public think someone is a crook even if the victim is found innocent after endless investigations. This happens all the time in DC and the Corporate world.
If the Rheeformers can’t find evidence, they will create it from scratch with a goal to cause a majority of the public to always think the victim is guilty.
Anyone who is a leader in the resistance—be they retired, a parent, student or teacher—out to save public education should take note that anyone could be their next target.
The pressure will be intense.
It sounds like the Los Angeles school district administrators are the ones who should be investigated. As with the DC and Atlanta School Districts, it will take evidence of criminal behavior to force an investigation.
The relentless pursuit and airing by the LAUSD of any allegation (however thin and unprovable and despicable) against Rafe Esquith, an outstanding teacher, stands in sharp contrast to the incredibly sloppy, lackadaisical, incompetent and destructive behavior shown by LAUSD in its predictable train wrecks like iPads and MISIS.
Any question why I call the rheephormistas “edubullies” and “edufrauds”?
And why I refer to them as the “sneer, jeer and smear crowd”?
In all seriousness, re those leading the LAUSD section of the education status quo, I echo the words of Joseph M. Welch during the Army-McCarthy hearings:
“Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kenneth-c-davis/no-sense-of-decency-welch_b_212997.html
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It’s a good question along the lines of “scaling up”. If they want innovation in public schools and this was a big success, why didn’t they “scale it up” and fund it themselves rather than having him solicit donations? They “scaled up” the IPad program with zero evidence that it’s valuable in terms of money/time spent. Why wouldn’t this be a worthwhile “reform” project? He can’t be the only person in the world who can teach this. Why not help him , add to the ranks of people who know how to do this and offer it at more schools or at least fund it where it’s operating? Why is “reform” so narrow? How many other “reform” ideas are there in public schools that go begging because they don’t fit the template of test-score raising?
Chiara:
TARGO!
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P.S. TARGO = T[hat’s]AR[eally]G[ood]O[ne].
If they had no reason to suspect malfeasance of the Hobart shakespeareans before the initial investigation into his classroom comment, how can you get away from this being some form of revenge or some way to get him to drop suit?
Is there some law against pursuing an investigation for any reason whatsoever unless they have something that told them they should investigate. I guess they could buy off an anonymous tipster.
Still obviously it is malicious.
Yes…there are laws against false process.
It is called Abuse of Process…and should be applied to this case and others which are baseless. Unfortunately most jailed teachers, without due process, do not have the funds to hire a lawyer, especially one who is prominent, successful, and probably charges $1.000 an hour.
If charter schools, which are funded with public money, don’t have to submit to auditing and other records examinations, I completely fail to understand how an independent non-profit, not funded with public money, could possibly be compelled to answer to LAUSD.
And as far as this: “Actors such as Ian McKellen, Hal Holbrook, John Lithgow and Michael York have visited and praised the Hobart Shakespeareans, and donated money to the group”, are those same actors now supporting Mr. Esquith? Are they realizing what “reform” is all about? Are they going to use the platform they have to speak out now? I’ll be holding my breath….
Is there any “probing” being done by the community? Surely there is some entity that is doing its own investigation of this school board and administration. If not the community or the county, perhaps a state agency could be looking into this? Could the governor appoint a task force? IF this teacher jail situation has been occurring with frequency and now includes such a high profile individual it seems that there should be some sort of intervention by someone other than Mr. Esquith’s lawyers. What kind of culture not only allows this process to go on but backs off and just lets it fester to the point that the most well known teacher in the US is removed from doing the best teaching in the nation and months later still does not have concrete reasons for being separated from his work? IF this school board gets away with this situation without repercussions what next? There is not enough coverage of this episode. WHY NOT?
I seriously think LAUSD and this BOE should be brought up for prosecution by the feds under the RICO act. They conspired to frame and accuse highly qualified older teachers in order to remove them from the LAUSD payroll and for many, from the benefits of the pension system. This was orchestrated by the money men, and LAUSD to cut these high salaried, older teachers and unfortunately, the union set us up for this abuse by cancelling our legal insurance, unbeknown to most union members. Not only were we had but to this day, the teacher’s union refuses to do anything about protecting its membership. What good is a CBA if you can’t enforce it. Wnat good is a union if they can’t protect their membership, all of their membership and provide better working conditions for them. What this amounts to is kicking that raise and the rest of your dues money back to UTLA for them to use as their personal slush fund as someone calls it.
I agree that this seems to be a witch hunt. 40 year old complaint? WTH??? Audit of his non-profit which funds his Shakespeare training program for students as well as their productions and travel to festivals?? This is terrible. To tar a talented and productive teacher is criminal!
You may not remember the McMartin case in which a schizophrenic mother, a troubled social worker, and an ambitious D.A. ruined a model preschool and people’s lives. The “evidence” was straight out of a “B” movie I had seen on television.
Well there you have it. How DARE Rafe counter the cuts to the arts with his own foundation~! See who has NOT donated? Broad, Koch, Walton, Bloomberg, etc. All of the deformers want Rafe gone. How dare he succeed while they are trying to cut him down. What a goat rodeo. He will be vindicated when all is said and done, and the United States of America’s citizens will be watching. Students, parents, teachers, public school advocates – we’re watching. I can’t wait to see this blow up. It is a witch hunt, and we’re not going to tolerate it, are we?
Lies are truths in LAUSD because they are worth million of green. How do they get away with it? It is simple. They deny due process of law to employees to make the truth look ugly because denying the process is killing the truth or facts. So dead truth doesn’t tell no tail sort of what the teacher said. All I want is the truth to be beauty and please don’t bury even one innocent teacher in a land of lies because is not fair. Is it?
Reblogged this on David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Texas Education.
They’re coming to take me away—I am a veteran teacher
http://www.changethelausd.com/they_re_coming_to_take_me_away_i_am_a_veteran_teacher