{"id":2276,"date":"2010-03-28T18:15:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T18:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2010-03-28T18:15:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T18:15:07","slug":"bad_solutions_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2276","title":{"rendered":"Bad Solutions To Tough Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

LAUSD and its unions just made a deal<\/a> to try and keep the foundering district afloat – by screwing the students.<\/p>\n

Teachers, whose salaries are the largest part of the budget for the district, agreed to furlough days and a shortened school year in return for pay cuts – in other words, their wages remain the same, but they will work (and get paid) less.<\/p>\n

Of course the students – who would benefit from smaller classes and longer school years – pay.<\/p>\n

Fire them all, close the institution, paint the buildings, and start over. Note that when I say that I’m not being rhetorical. I’m not sure that LAUSD as an institution is viable if you make care for the students the core metric.<\/p>\n

I think the year or turmoil that would come from a radical restructuring (break it up into 4-high school pods?, Reboot it as a larger organization?) would be painful – but the long term effect of destroying the lives of too many children hurts more.
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LAUSD saves money on the back of the students…again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}