When i was in high school, Willow Glen, in San Jose, Ca. back in the 60s even, we had teachers that were so 'under performing' as to yearly just read the biology text book to the class, and that was the extent of that professional educator and employee of the State of California's "educating",,,just reading every page of the text book. I bet the overpaid Principal at Willow Glen knew this teacher was slacking off and getting away with doing less than needed. Even the PTA must have know about this lazy terrible teacher of neglect. And the School Board. And the Teacher's Union. So there is lots of blame to go around.
But talking to my mother who graduated from UCLA, in the late 1930s just before WW2, she also tells me that she had along with her classmates a teacher at one of our 'most respected' public state universities, UCLA !!, do nothing more for the class than read from the textbook !! And do you really believe that the Head of UCLA did not know about this travesty of public education !? Please.
So California institutions, from its Teachers to its Principals, PTAs to School Boards, state public universities like UCLA to Governors and Superintendents of Public Education,,,all the way down to the voters who may want 'the best public education money can buy' but certainly have been short changed over decades and decades in California, all these entities are not able in their turf wars and infighting to get the main job done of educating our children to the highest standards.
In spite of all the press and verbage, what they say, they have all failed the children who could not vote or voice even. Our future of success and health and security was at stake.
