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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.
Thomas Merton
Lifestyles Of The Rich And Obamas — Tafari Campbell, 45, the Barack and Michelle Obama’s personal chef, drowned Sunday, July 23, in a paddle board accident outside the former first couple’s home on exclusive Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.
Security consultant Tony Schaffer X’d an interesting question: How can @BarackObama – afford a chef!? And a $12 million Cape Cod home and a $8.7 million Hawaiian home (and no fear of global warming and rising seas)?
The district’s central budget will be $12.9 billion, but separate funds will contribute to the $18.8 billion total that will also be designated for adult education, the student body fund and construction projects. Funding will include the last federal government COVID-19 cash infusion which, in the aggregate, will reach more than $5 billion. State and federal taxpayers have paid into the LAUSD, regardless of where Sacramento officials claim the monies come from – the “separate funds” cited above. In education, the taxpayer is the first, last and only funding source.
For the astronomical, staggering almost $19 billion, parents and the taxpaying community, deserve educated graduates who are ready to meaningfully contribute to society. The goal, taken for granted during California’s golden 1960s era when the states’ public schools were the nation’s envy, will be elusive, and perhaps beyond reach. In truth, there may not be enough billions to reverse LAUSD’s downward spiral and insurmountable problems.
Unfortunately, and only partly of its own doing, LAUSD is barreling in the wrong direction academically. The COVID-19 school shutdown devastated LAUSD’s most vulnerable students. The latest state test scores revealed disappointing decreases in student performance. For poor, vulnerable students, the decline was more dramatic.
The 2022 assessment tests showed just 28 percent of LAUSD students met state standards in math, and only 42 percent met English standards in the 2021-22 school year, declines of two and five percentage points, respectively, from the 2018-19 school year. LAUSD superintendent Alberto Carvalho acknowledged that kids most at risk – blacks, Hispanics and females – lost the most ground. “Five years of gradual academic progress…. have been reversed,” said Carvalho.
Test scores won’t improve unless chronic absenteeism is reversed. Nearly half of all LAUSD students missed classroom time post-pandemic, a two-fold increase from prior years. Carvalho found many students did not have either what he called “adequate care” from an adult at home, “were caring for young siblings” or working multiple low-paying jobs to support their families. LAUSD implemented strategies, such as targeting early absenteeism and going to students’ homes for follow up, but the programs’ specifics are vague, and the end results far from certain.
Carvalho has other plans with noble goals. Highest among them is his commitment to expanding a literacy intervention program called Primary Promise, originally limited to K-3 students, to students at higher grade levels. While parents applaud the more inclusive outreach, veteran educators know that if the basics aren’t mastered during a student’s earliest years, the climb to literacy will be long, hard and too often unsuccessful.
As challenging as the 2023-2024 academic year is, the worst is yet to come. COVID-19 funding goes away next year. Many of the 75,000 full- and part-time workers, including about 25,000 teachers, will have to change jobs or job locations, and unfilled classroom and staff positions will remain vacant, a true crisis for students already behind. If bus drivers are laid off – a strong possibility – then poor children without other transportation options will be unable to get to school.
The important question, however, is what long-term outcome awaits students whose fundamental reading and math skills are substandard? In an era that increasingly relies on automation and artificial intelligence, the undereducated young adults, whether their futures lay in California or elsewhere, will have a rocky road forward. The $18 billion is a high cost to taxpayers for failing Los Angeles’ children.
Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo Tolstoy
Powerful Meme Alarms Frank Luntz — @Lauren3veMemes designed with two others the below work of art which is making the rounds on X once known as Twitter.
One of the more well-known second-tier candidates for the upcoming presidential race is African-American Larry Elder, aka Lawrence Allen Elder, the 72-year-old California radio talk-show host of The Larry Elder Show. In the “crime” section of his campaign web site, he says that one reason he’s running is to support “the Enforce-the-Law Act” to rein in the George Soros-backed prosecutors and hold them “accountable”.
He’s known for his candidacy in the 2021 California gubernatorial recall election, in which he garnered an astounding 48 percent of the vote!
Elder grew up in South Los Angeles and is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Michigan Law School. This article lists 14 links at the end, including one to an article stating that Elder’s ex-fiancée has become his biggest critic, and another one entitled “Elder and Newsom: A Special Relationship”.
He opposes college-admission racial preferences as “hurting more qualified students” and says that “the people that supposedly benefit end up dropping out. You put somebody on a campus where the pace is too fast, and they’re not going to be able to keep up.”
When he was first offered a job as a talk show host, he discussed it with his then-wife, Cynthia, a physician. According to him, the conversation went like this:
Larry: “I think of talk radio as stupid, shallow, and glib”.
Cynthia: “It is, you’d be good at it”.
Elder later stated that this “gives you an idea of that marriage”.
His private life has taken several twists and turns since then.
“Restricting speech is the way of the regressive left, obsessed with censorship on college campuses and in corporate boardrooms. Republicans have long championed free speech.”
Hopefully, some of the second-tier GOP candidates will be included in the upcoming debate(s).
Arguing With A Democrat About Biden — What we’ve been saying for almost a decade is now being revealed to the masses and it’s every bit as bad as we have been saying.
Pretender Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is a corrupt monster who has sold out his country for money. He is a literal traitor, and is more than willing to use all the powers of the law to which he has access to destroy political opponents.
Many still refuse to accept this, however. Maybe they get their news from traditional sources they have long trusted and cannot come to accept that these sources are but propaganda that lie without hesitation in the service of the powerful.
Or maybe they are just blinded by emotion and can’t accept that they have been horribly fooled.
@mazemoore wrote this on Twitter — sorry, X — as how discussions with diehard Democrats usually go:
Where’s the proof that Biden is actually corrupt?
Emails, text messages, and bank statements that explicitly detail the scam the Bidens were running.
No I want real proof.
Video of Biden himself extorting.
No I want real proof.
Whistleblowers and business partners that have spent hours detailing the scam that the Bidens were running.
No I want real proof. See, you don’t have any. You are in a cult.
