[img]2488|right|Prof. Rousseau||no_popup[/img]The black community of South Los Angeles again lost heavily on Tuesday night when the derelict LAUSD School Board voted junk academician Sylvia Rousseau of USC to be an emergency placeholder for the next 120 days.
I-Adore-Victimology Sylvia can wreak more damage in four months than a busload of drunk frat boys turned loose in a lab.
Hiring Sylvia is the equivalent of the Fire Dept. knowingly employing an arsonist.
As delicately as I can manage, Sylvia is a one-stop disaster for any students, or heaven forbid any community, saddled with this bitter trash talker. Last I saw her, she was smilingly wallowing in victimhood. This is the disgusting propaganda that she has spread, like manure, for decades.
Sylvia believes that children of parents below a certain income level should be excused from learning with normal students.
Don’t test them. Do not afford them any opportunity normal students gain because they are wildly incapable.
Sylvia preaches the gospel of inequality. Students from poor families, mainly minorities, should have a Brinks truck pull up in front of their sad excuse for a home every morning and unload wads of money so that the wretches within can catch up with the normal population. Something like that.
Don’t laugh.
She has carved a career out of this thinking.
Poor children should receive daily dispensations from learning because, by thunder, they are victims-for-life of this mean ol’ country that does not give them enough handouts.
Tamar Galatzan, who nominated the Junk Lady to replace the late Marguerite LaMotte on the School Board until a permanent member is elected in June, now has destroyed her last chance to be rated even semi-astute.
Sylvia is described as a professor of clinical education and an, ahem, urban scholar. Ah, the code words. She’s got a million of ‘em. Of course, how could we ever forget that old standby “diversity.” Sylvia might be queen of the bean-counters.
Swallow this bio: She has been a professor of clinical education and urban scholar for the USC Rossier School of Education since 2006, where she teaches in the Ed.D. program, focusing on instructional leadership, diversity, and organization in the K-1 concentration. She also teaches courses in the TEMS concentration.
Her research interests include reforming systems and structures to organize urban schools for learning; the relationship between culture and cognition in promoting learning for all students; deepening understandings of literacy acquisition in urban schools; secondary literacy; and exploring and developing university and K-12 partnerships. She is often called upon to speak at educational conferences on creating change in urban schools.
