How ironic.
While Dylan Farris, the outgoing principal of Culver City High School, was lavishly praising his superintendent, Dave LaRose, on his way out the door this week, LAUSD, in typically semi-sane contrast, was debating whether to dropkick, dismember or waterboard their ousted superintendent, Johnny Deasy. Virtually every member of the School Board loves Mr. Deasy just as much as his or her parole officer.
There are logical explanations for LAUSD annually producing the blankest teenagers in America.
Students are largely from single parent, don’t-care homes. Neither the students nor the teachers are interested in the classes.
The only reliably motivated people in LAUSD are the control-crazed School Board and the typical borderline presidents of the Teachers Union.
Three percent of Crenshaw High School students read at grade level. Likely a smaller portion could define math.
Ain’t nobody learnin’ nothin’ over there.
What if history had been dyslexic?
What if Mr. LaRose had gone to LAUSD? Is that chilling?
What if Culver City would have been condemned to live – surely for no longer than minutes – with the haughty Mr. Deasy?
Both hires would have ruined the concept of professional marriage for everyone in the district. Homeschoolong would have become fashionable, not to mention mandatory, overnight.
How to explain the difference between Culver City choosing Mr. LaRose and LAUSD picking the querulous Mr, Deasy.
Values, baby.
There may not be one parent in Culver City who regards Mr. LaRose, in his third year, as less than gifted, brilliant. How many parents regard the Deasy firing as a mistake? Do any non-relatives of Retread Ray Cortines, 82-year-old survivor of an apparently true morals charge, regard his hiring as other than a latter day Howdy Doody imitation?
Mr. Farris’s by now well-replayed observation – “I want to be (like) Dave” – surely is an unprecedented encomium in our town for a principal and his superintendent. I am not sure if anyone in the Deasy family would say that about Mr. Deasy.