Thousands of L.A. Unified School District teachers, administrators and counselors could face layoffs

[dynasaw]

Source: KABC

According to district staff reports, notices of potential layoffs would be sent to 8,846 employees, including 3,477 non permanent elementary and secondary teachers. First and second year teachers are the most at risk.

The potential layoff list also includes 1,996 permanent elementary school teachers, 498 counselors and advisors, and 2,875 administrators and counselors.

Read more: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=6701987

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Ironic following Obama's speech today on improving education.

[Shireling]

1. The more teachers

that are laid off, the more difficult it is to teach the students, due to the chaos from a higher student-to-teacher ratio. What a mess!

[demo dutch]

2. This kind of stuff is going to happen all over the country, I'm just waiting for the FCAT exams to

finish in Florida,(they're happening now for the next 2 weeks) and you'll see massive lay-offs in Florida too

[Bette Noir]

3. It's our own dumb fault. Californians refuse to pay reasonable property taxes.

[slackmaster]

4. Californians pay the about the highest income, sales, fuel, and corporate taxes in the USA

The problem is not that we don't pay enough in property taxes.

[goclark]

6. thank you

[Quantess]

5. With larger and larger class sizes,

A teacher's success will depend on how good he/she is at crowd control. It already is this way, but crowd control will become an increasingly bigger factor in defining a "good teacher".

[tonysam]

9. Believe You Me Classroom Management Ability is the Most Important Thing

even when classrooms are almost impossible to manage.

[Quantess]

10. I can teach small groups of children. Up to six children, if they are well behaved.

I was a Speech Language Pathologist, mostly working in schools. I have a Masters degree, and I know what I'm doing, but, I cannot properly provide instruction to large groups of students. I am excellent at giving specialized lessons for a few students at a time, but I'm lousy at crowd control, so I know I could never teach a whole class.

Teaching High School in Clackamas County was the worst job of my life. It was supposed to be a "Speech Language Classroom" for 8 to 10 H.S. students with IEPs, but it turned into a study hall, a dumping-ground elective, for the lazy kids who wanted to goof off a whole hour every school day, which bumped it to 12 to 16 teens. The students who genuinely needed speech-language services tended to be the best behaved, with a few exceptions, but I held even the brattiest Speech-Language students to heart, because those were the students I was hired to help, and got a Masters degree to help. Just not those fully capable, spoiled, lazy, troublesome ones, because Speech Pathologists don't do that. That is not in our legal job description. We are specialists. We don't teach regular-ed students, and for good reason. Anyway, I was terrible at maintaining a large group of High School students.

[proud patriot]

7. Our school district Employees are wearing pink all week

:hi:

[superconnected]

8. I was thinking that too. How banking industry and auto industry of them.