Re “Horrifying Condition of Inglewood Schools” and “Filth Surrounds Inglewood Schools – Cleanup Plan Is Elusive”

To the surprise of no adults in the room, first-year state Assemblywoman Autumn Burke has nabbed the smartly stitched hem of her mother’s fashionable skirts, clicked the “off” sign on her thinker, and braced, smilingly, for a 20-, 30- or 40-year free slide to political stardom – however long she plans to feed at the public trough by scamming voters.

The attractive fortyish miss billed herself as an upgrade during her campaign. So far she only is an upgrade to door knobs hereabouts.

In her opening weeks in office, Ms. Burke, daughter of the classy but problematic retired County Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, has made the identical impression on Inglewood area constituents as her mother.

Last I checked, Ms. Brathwaite Burke and Walt Disney had made the same number of public utterances this season.

Her daughter’s campaign cry – “I am related” – got her elected. Evidently that is the full length of Ms. A. Burke’s imagination.

In two stories here last week, the scandalous physical condition of Inglewood schools sadly was reported to be almost up to the standards of the Kabul Unified School District in Afghanistan.

The spotlight shined on Ms. A. Burke, as the community state legislator, to make a muscular, insightful, threatening, inspiring statement, hopefully leading to recovery.

She obviously only consulted her dead pet amoeba before unwisely opening her unoccupied mouth.

Think, Ms. Burke, Think

Displaying the keen insight of a mud fence, Ms. A. Burke made a mercifully brief, grimly shallow observation that my car could have topped.

By golly, she said she found the unhealthy, depression conditions “sickening.”

List that finding under Revelations, Murgatroyd.

She was echoing the opinion the rodents who reside in numerous classrooms.

“Our children,” she said, summoning her inner A. Lincoln, “deserve better than that.
 
“Inglewood needs a new direction, with local eyes and ears that can address these issues.”

Quick, insert these words into the next semester’s textbooks.

Gives you chills, doesn’t it? Only if you are standing in Alaska clad in your underwear.

Worn out no doubt by unaccustomed thinking, Ms. A. Burke promptly touted three School Board candidates. In the spirit of the day, they embarrassed themselves with nonsensical statements that would make normal people hastily exit the room in disgust.

Pray for Inglewood and its schools.

No lights are on among the leadership.