Why would anyone want to transform Emerson to an unaccountable corporate CMO charter when five of Green Dot’s schools have APIs far below Emerson's 701:Animo Jackie Robinson 597
Animo Justice 569
Animo Ralph Bunche 636
Animo Watts 614
Animo Locke 2 652
Sources
http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m6d11-Green-Dot-revolution-targets-LA-school-that-outperforms-its-own
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/may/28/opinion/ed-locke28
http://www.parentrevolution.org/index.php/schools/entry/emerson_middle_school/
NO to Ben Austin's hostile takeovers!
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The Parent Revolutions agenda is the same as the failing Act4Ed group. They do not wish for their kids to attend school with those that are bussed to Emerson. I hear it in their comments when they attend a play "At least we didn't have to sit with those children" (Warner parent referring to the Westwood Charter kids.) I hear it when they stop in the office asking if it's true that busing to Emerson has stopped.
They think that the kids bussed in from La Cienega/Pico area are sub par and in gangs. Utter nonsense.
Emerson's test scores are on the rise, yes - beating out most of Green Dots and others - and that's what these groups judge by, they say. HOWEVER -
Palms test scores equal Paul Revere's, but Palms is primarily black and brown. It is a viable option, but they still choose the significantly white school of Paul Revere.
They are xenophobes - afraid of diversity and the knowledge that comes from being familiar with all walks of life.
Privatization = Segregation (Levin 2009); Charter = Segregation (since charters can pick and choose and/or use a lottery system, whereas regular public schools must take everyone).
White flight is alive and well on the Westside!
Exactly Carrie. Our scores could be in the 800s. We'd still be a failing school because all of a sudden the issue wouldn't be test scores but this or that. If parents want a principal, teachers and staff who put their children above everyone else's, then they need to give a ton of money to a private school and enroll there. Public education is for ALL kids.
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