There are facts about Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District dwellers in this city refuse to notice. We want to live in a fantasy world in which this town, where one area was developed for the WW II effort in aviation and the homes tiny cottages for the workers, is a chic and royal town. The area I refer to is Sunset Park or anywhere between Ocean Park Avenue and Pico Boulevard, and Centinela and Lincoln. On the edge of Sunset Park and Lincoln there is more crime than here in the infamous Pico Neighborhood, which houses still a considerable number of ethnic minorities, so to speak. On Lincoln there are needles and prostitutes. (Check crime reports on SMDP or Sunday LATimes.)
Sunset Park has become the home of the wannabes of Santa Monica. They mansionized the cottages and support blindly giving money to the School District. So how about this?
• Did you know that every ineffective administrator is moved to Student Services or Education Services? Peter Principle, yes.
• Have you ever called either office and gotten a live person on the phone?
• Of course, right after RR was approved, administrators got raises. There is no money for the rest of the staff.
• Once the SMPD stopped to check some people who were taking away perfectly good furniture and cabinet files. The police thought there were thieves. But no! Santa Monica-Malibu USD had thrown out filing cabinets, those old green metal ones, because the color was old. In the same way they throw away tables, do away with an awesome equipment for astronomy, and so and and so forth.
• This is, after all, a town in the vicinity of Hollywood, where it was said, "A sucker is born every day."
• On Pico Boulevard, opposite from the cemitery, there is an empty lot. SMMUSD outbid the city but the city refused to authorize the building SMMUSD had in mind. From this impasse resides wasted money.
• On Santa Monica Boulevard it's worse. There is a huge room, empty, on a lease made by an administrator who left. It costs us 30 thousand dollars a month.
• I am sure you have been following the scandalous revelations about the deals cut with special education. Kids who were attacked by others, parents silence bought in exchange for privilege that is only obviously necessary. IEPs that never went anywhere, Administrators shuffling their feet over scandalous breeches of the State Ed. Code. Example: an on-site administrator takes eight months to deliver a stop to name calling Gay-Briel, marking lines on the desks and floor accusing the child of having HIV. Eight months!
• Now, my friends, are you still going to throw money the District's way?
Let's face it, Santa Monica: culture, what culture?
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