LAUSD Mt. Gleason Update: Corrective Action Notice Issued by Environmental Health Services
THANKS TO LAUSD'S ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SERVICES (OCHS) for following up on ZD's blogging and phone calls to the district over "parental outrage" at Mt. Gleason over the past couple weeks on this blog. (Remember "No Safe School Plan" and issues over safety and bathrooms?
parental outrage story 1
no safe school plan story
In a sheer coincidence, that has NOTHING to do with the calls I made; videos I sent out on the net; and stories posted on multiple blogs:
Mt. Gleason Middle School had a walk-through inspection by the Office of Environmental Health Services (OEHS, part of LAUSD) issuing a corrective action notice regarding peeling of lead paint (that must be removed); the restrooms must now be kept accessible and unlocked -- and that the "Safe School Plan" has to be update.
OF COURSE I'M HAPPY AS HECK TO HEAR AT LEAST SOMETHING HAPPENED IN REGARDS TO DOING SOMETHING. That bathroom issue is a real "bone" for a lot of these parents.
And hopefully, although that don't fix everything...I hope the parents in the area who collaborated and rocked my cell phone and email feel at least a little better that something was done about some of the problem, since they have spent over a year on some of these problems.
(Some people don't even bother speaking up/participating at meetings because they don't think anything will ever happen...so I hope THOSE people see slight encouragement by this and do something to activate their community against fraud, waste and abuse.)
HEY LOCAL NEWSPAPERS...GET OFF YOUR ASSES...THE PEOPLE WHO CAME TO ME WITH THIS, WENT TO YOU FIRST!!!
zumadogg@gmail.com
parental outrage story 1
no safe school plan story
In a sheer coincidence, that has NOTHING to do with the calls I made; videos I sent out on the net; and stories posted on multiple blogs:
Mt. Gleason Middle School had a walk-through inspection by the Office of Environmental Health Services (OEHS, part of LAUSD) issuing a corrective action notice regarding peeling of lead paint (that must be removed); the restrooms must now be kept accessible and unlocked -- and that the "Safe School Plan" has to be update.
OF COURSE I'M HAPPY AS HECK TO HEAR AT LEAST SOMETHING HAPPENED IN REGARDS TO DOING SOMETHING. That bathroom issue is a real "bone" for a lot of these parents.
And hopefully, although that don't fix everything...I hope the parents in the area who collaborated and rocked my cell phone and email feel at least a little better that something was done about some of the problem, since they have spent over a year on some of these problems.
(Some people don't even bother speaking up/participating at meetings because they don't think anything will ever happen...so I hope THOSE people see slight encouragement by this and do something to activate their community against fraud, waste and abuse.)
HEY LOCAL NEWSPAPERS...GET OFF YOUR ASSES...THE PEOPLE WHO CAME TO ME WITH THIS, WENT TO YOU FIRST!!!
zumadogg@gmail.com
Posted by Zuma Dogg @ 11/14/2007 11:15:00 AM
3 Comments:
Stop the presses. The same happened at Uni High in West L A a year or two ago: bathroom stalls with no doors, graffiti, and that's in a nice neighborhood. But no local kids go there, the school has been bused in demographics forever. One example of poster is talking about re: NO schools on westside for local kids.
Maybe if political blindness didn't just lead everyone to look on the eastside and south L A the school system would be fixable. It's not.
Hooooray! I'm so happy Mt. Gleason is getting looked at!! I can't even imagine having my kids go to a school that was so (excuse me whilst I lapse into Val Speak) grody and disgusting (i.e. the 4 bathrooms for hundreds of kids) and there was lead in the paint on the walls? Damn, that's shameful.
Zuma, you are the bomb dot com! Or, as Bruce Springsteen once sang: you're for sure "a Rocker!"
(please to see lyrics for "I'm A Rocker", it's you to a T!)
xoxo,
valley doll
(who is really zuma dogg, but one of his alternate personalities, you know, like Sybil)
Another brilliant zuma accomplishment, he's got all his followers and grateful parents talking about all the "bafoonery" or "baffoonery" on the part of the Mayor and the Clowncil. The Mayor who these savvy parents blame for the "low teast scores" at their schools, which were picked for being lowest performing in the first place. With gratitude like this, why didn't the Mayor take on a middle class school? Given how ignored the middle class and westside are at LAUSD, THAT would be the truly PC thing to do. These "poor" schools have parents so spoiled, they turn their noses up at millions of bucks pouring into their schools to try to help them. With no parent help, it's an uphill battle. Mayor, put a school in westwood or brentwood or just one, just one middle or high school for the whole hollywood hills that isn't full of kids from the inner cities, but a local school like Wonderland or Warner Elementary. Watch what the parents do with that school, watch L A's reputation soar again. Then do it wherever there's a will and a need.
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