All LA schools closed todat (San Francisco: school district, statistics, safety)

[quixotic59]

As usual, the NYC DOE plays Russian Roulette with the lives of students and teachers. LA did the right thing and erred on the side of caution.

IF this was the 10th or 100th email threat then one might say they overreacted. In light of recent events, LA made the right decision.

If the threat had been made against City Hall, Tweed, or PP1, you better believe their fat butts would have been hauled out of their immediately.

Oh, and Bratton should shut his big mouth. No one asked his idiot opinion.

[BRinSM]

Originally Posted by V8 Vega

160,000 students, 30,000 teachers and who knows how many other people lounging around under the guise of working, so well over 200,000. Thats the size of Van Nuys and North Hollywood. Heads should roll for this.

haters gonna hate

[STFUNerd]

Originally Posted by BRinSM

haters gonna hate

Ain'ters gunna ain't.

[Taiko]

Originally Posted by Big-Bucks

Apparently someone copied and pasted an old bomb scare. The brains running the city fell for it.

Was it the city or was the decision maker an interim school master who wouldn't have the experience of going through emergency management drills

[quixotic59]

Originally Posted by Taiko

Was it the city or was the decision maker an interim school master who wouldn't have the experience of going through emergency management drills

That "interim school master" was Chancellor of NYC schools from 1993 to 1995 which included the first World Trade Center bombing. He has more background in that position than the two goobers in NYC who were more worried about babysitting than safety.

LA parents seemed relatively satisfied with the decision, probably because they don't mind having their children around. NYC parents HATE when kids can't be shipped off to school and they actually have to parent them.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by quixotic59

That "interim school master" was Chancellor of NYC schools from 1993 to 1995 which included the first World Trade Center bombing. He has more background in that position than the two goobers in NYC who were more worried about babysitting than safety.

LA parents seemed relatively satisfied with the decision, probably because they don't mind having their children around. NYC parents HATE when kids can't be shipped off to school and they actually have to parent them.

That interim school master was fired from his job in NYC because of his incompetence. He was also previously fired from being LAUSD superintendent because of sexual harrassment issues. His judgment, to put it mildly, was very poor, as it has been throughout his career.

Cortines should never have ordered the schools closed. He should have listened to Charlie Beck who determined that the threat was a hoax. My co-workers have kids in LAUSD ; they are so outraged that they are now planning to move out of LAUSD turf if Broad isn't able to charterize the district. Not that there weren't already plenty of reasons to avoid LAUSD....

[quixotic59]

Originally Posted by majoun

That interim school master was fired from his job in NYC because of his incompetence. He was also previously fired from being LAUSD superintendent because of sexual harrassment issues. His judgment, to put it mildly, was very poor, as it has been throughout his career.

Cortines should never have ordered the schools closed. He should have listened to Charlie Beck who determined that the threat was a hoax. My co-workers have kids in LAUSD ; they are so outraged that they are now planning to move out of LAUSD turf if Broad isn't able to charterize the district. Not that there weren't already plenty of reasons to avoid LAUSD....

Oh yes, charters, there's the answer. You drink the Kool Aid, hope you enjoy it. Cortines was not fired because of his incompetence, he was fired because of the buffoon Guliani and his colossal ego and ignorance. In his short tenure Cortines improved many things in the NYC school system. Much more than the parade of Guliani goons before and after him.

As a 30 year veteran of NYC schools I saw the positive impact the man had and the effect of his intelligence. As for LAUSD, for the second largest public school system and the disproportionate burden of ESL students it carries it does a pretty good job.

Of course, it's fashionable to jump on the loudmouth wagon and denigrate any system that hedge fund managers want to bleed dry.

The decision made yesterday was a sound one and focused on the safety of students first, everything else second. NYC has a long history of putting students and teachers last on the list of priorities. I've witnessed it repeatedly.

[Mr. Zero]

Originally Posted by quixotic59

That "interim school master" was Chancellor of NYC schools from 1993 to 1995 which included the first World Trade Center bombing. He has more background in that position than the two goobers in NYC who were more worried about babysitting than safety.

LA parents seemed relatively satisfied with the decision, probably because they don't mind having their children around. NYC parents HATE when kids can't be shipped off to school and they actually have to parent them.

Cortines wasn't Chancellor during the first WTC bombing. The bombing was in February 1993. He was appointed in September 1993.

[quixotic59]

Originally Posted by Mr. Zero

Cortines wasn't Chancellor during the first WTC bombing. The bombing was in February 1993. He was appointed in September 1993.

As a result of the bombing, security in schools became a major issue, more than before. It created the need to introduce protocols for terror related incidents into the schools. Until then, we were still doing shelter drills in case of nuclear attack.
Cortines helped institute those first protocols.

[JustMike77]

Local talk DJs John & Ken read the email on the radio and it sounded like it was written by a kid. What terrorist identifies the make & model of their guns? For that matter, what terrorist event ever came with a warning ?