WE SAY IT AGAIN--A BAD CITY EQUALS BAD SCHOOLS. PERIOD.
The Newport-Mesa Unified School District is going to have a public hearing tonight(2/6) about what the district intends to do to improve Pomona Elementary School, Wilson Elementary School and TeWinkle Middle School to keep them from being taken over by the state just as we see schools being taken over in various big city slums.
The problem with these schools, as we've written many times before, is with the students. The reason we have our schools packed with students who can't pass tests is because the city of Costa Mesa is packed with illegal aliens--it is the children of illegal aliens who are causing Costa Mesa school scores to be in the dumpster.
These students shouldn't be in our schools at all. They should be in schools in Mexico and the citizens of that country should be paying for their education and worrying about why they test so low on standardized tests.
Aside from the hard truth about why schools in Costa Mesa are showing low test scores for students, the CM PRESS has a problem with the NMUSD and its constant sweet nothings gushiness. We got that when the district and it's hug-a-lot pals pushed through a bond. Remember that? Have the schools improved because many voters were fooled into passing it? You know they haven't.
In the Daily Pilot today we get these gems from Susan Astarita, the NMUSD assistant superintendent of elementary education:
"I don't know of any other district in the state of California that's been forward-thinking enough to work with the union and come up with a procedure to handle the Program Improvement sanctions the federal government has implemented."
We translate: We're just a swell bunch, we administrators and teachers, and we all love each other. Too bad the feds are about ready to take over the first three of many failing schools, but, hey, let's have a group hug and use a lot of words to say nothing substantive.
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"To have teachers, classified employees, parents working with the administration in this effort is really to be commended."
We translate: Let's have another group hug. The students are testing at slum city levels, but we can talk about community involvement instead of substance, just like they do in the big city slums. Naturally, we won't accomplish anything but we'll all feel good. We're a swell bunch and you are too and life is swell and the schools are swell and all is, well, swell.
The NMUSD meeting tonight on this nonsense conflicts with the Costa Mesa City Council meeting, that is also being held tonight, so many activists will probably pass on the NMUSD meeting. Maybe things were planned that way.
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HERE'S HOW THE NMUSD CAN KEEP POMONA, WILSON AND TEWINKLE FROM BEING TAKEN OVER BY THE STATE (Yes, Ms. Foley and Ms. Dixon, this is tongue in cheek, sort of.)
Bus 90% of the failing students from these schools in Costa Mesa to schools in Newport Beach and fill their seats in Costa Mesa with a corresponding number of high performing students from Newport Beach.
The feds will then be amazed at the miraculous increase in student test scores in Costa Mesa. Overnight, Costa Mesa schools will have gone from DENSA to MENSA.
Then, next year, when the feds see three formerly high performing schools in Newport suddenly failing, and they threaten to take those schools over, you can put the original high performing Newport students back in those schools and move the failing Costa Mesa students back to schools in Costa Mesa.
There you go NMUSD, just keep those bus engines fired up for quick transfers and you'll fool the feds with this shell game.
Of course, if the City of Costa Mesa starts upscaling itself and stops being an illegal alien sanctuary, the schools here will improve automatically as citizen parents put their kids back in our neighborhood schools.
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