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lifetime health benefits- something LAUSD is already $13 billion in the
hole on for those teachers who have already vested and/or retired. By
replacing these targeted teachers with novice teachers at the bottom of the
salary scale and with much diminished benefits, LAUSD saves over
$60,000 in salary and benefits per teacher. Do the math. This amounts to a
$51 million savings in just the first year after these mostly innocent
teachers have been liquidated. And this is a gift to the District that keeps
on giving in subsequent years.
Reporter Barbara Jones and others who write about targeted teachers
unquestioningly accept LAUSD's assertion that so many teachers are
being charged, because of "years of downplaying or ignoring suspected
abuse." Does she offer any evidence to substantiate this assertion? Hell no.
After all, what are the civil rights of a few teachers worth against the
financial interests of the cabal running LAUSD?
In good old fashion 1950s McCarthyism tactics of blacklisting or the
more recent McMartin Preschool case, where all teachers charged- whose
lives were nonetheless destroyed- turned out to be completely innocent,
LAUSD offers no evidence of teacher culpability for anything they are
charged with and, worse yet, hundreds of teachers are subjected to a
purposefully stalled "investigation" that often goes on for years. What
happened to the legal presumption of innocence until proven guilty by a
preponderance of the evidence and with that burden being on LAUSD?
Don't ask, don't tell seems to be LAUSD's position on this.
Nobody seems to be interested in the coincidence of LAUSD budget
shortfalls and deficit projections over the last 5 years and the fact that "the
number of housed teachers has more than doubled in the last 18 months."
LAUSD's General Counsel David Holmquist states, "We have zero
tolerance for inappropriate touching." And this seems to include a teacher
now in teacher jail for having touched her student's shoulder in a popcorn
reading exercise to let the student know it was her time to read. Miramonte
has created the pretext to go after teachers at the top of the salary scale or
who merely had the professional integrity to question their principal's
often irrational actions.