In the end, not every notice will lead to a job loss, but given the circumstances, the school district felt obligated to give fair warning.
The news rippled across the campus Friday morning, and students were falling apart. They texted their parents and sought out one another to see if it could all be true.
"I saw kids crying in the quad," said Portia Amofa, student body president at Hamilton High School in West Los Angeles.
The students were finding out that some of their favorite teachers were among roughly 7,000 in L.A. Unified who had gotten layoff notices. In addition, the directors of two enormously popular and successful Hamilton programs, the humanities magnet and the music magnet, had been told by L.A. Unified that their positions were being eliminated.
It is a cruel reality, and OS does sympathize mightily with the students.
The parents, teacher's union, legislature in Sacramento, the last six governors or so, the Federal government (which has swamped the system with unfunded mandates, and refused refused refused to enforce the border with Mexico for the past several decades--this is during administrations of both parties, ya'll--not just the Dems) need all to be sat in the corner of the classroom with the old 'Dunce' hat perched on their heads.
It isn't like this sad day was not forseen, years ago. It is a mathematical inevitability that this day would come. And everyone just pretended it would never come in their term of office/lifetime.
OS hopes the kids remember this day well, and resolve amongst themselves to never, ever let governments get so out of control as to rob their children of their futures.
This sort of thing is the imposition of a cruel tax upon those completely incapable of paying it.
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