Gustavo doesn’t even care if the Latino vote splits and we lose this seat. What a crabs in the bucket mentality.

I suppose if we hooked up the Santa ana teachers to a lie detector and asked them if they would send their kids to the one of the lower performing schools in Santa Ana unified or a private everyone would vote 100% for the private.

You blame the parents, Claudio blames the work enviroment( which is included in the SES I mentioned before) yet you both agree that the status quo is acceptable andthat vouchers for “children from failing public schools” woud not fix the problem.

Fortunately, we have not seen the full effects of an sigificant underclass of uneducated Latino community members living during troubling economic times with limited resources but my guess you are bound to see alot of bitterness to everyone else, including those people perched in hills of Irvine because they won’t bake their parents for their predictment just everyone else.

But if that’s the enviroment you want just so you keep employed that failing pubic school that’s the enviroment you’ll leave your kids.

Irvine from Santa ana is only what 8 miles apart.

Charter schools are great but why do you suppose they don’t have the charter school concept at all the schools in Santa Ana unified.

The answer is because the unions wouldn’t suppport and block efforts to do so.

Also, I’m not touting a voucher for all( never have anywher in my writings) just at the schools that have continued to failing Latino kids.

I support charter schools and vouchers for chidren in failing schools. Why don’t you agree with this ?

If not, then I believe it’s troubling for someone who supports public education status quo in those low axheivubg schools yet sends thier kids to the Charter schools or like 70% of public school teachers do by sending their kids to private schools.

No it’s not; we review the homework and project schedule and make sure the work is done; we review homework nightly and review projects on the weekends. It’s called being an active parent. Improving education for all children requires collaboration with parents and teachers.

Yes, there are some bad parents out there, there are bad teachers, there are bad schools and there are bad students. A voucher system isn’t going to make this go away. Parents already have a choice; if they want to place their kids in a private school, they can pay to do so. If you expect my tax dollars to pay for private school at the expense of public schools, that I as a parents, work hard to make better, you’re nuts.

First, you mention Charter Schools Vouchers. Children don’t need them, Charter Schools are FREE. I should know, my son is in Kindergarten at El Sol Academy, the number ONE performing Charter School in the SAUSD. He is also enrolled in the after school program, which is $20 a week and allows him to be exposed to the Arts. I love this school and if you haven’t been watching the news, you would know that Obama(A DEMOCRAT) has been promoting Charter Schools, which was an initiative also promoted by Bill Clinton (A DEMOCRAT).

What you may have in mind is Vouchers, which uses taxpayer money from people like Dan and I and allows children to be sent to religious schools. Lets take a look at countries that practice this, PAKISTAN, SAUDI ARABIA, IRAN. Yeah taxpayer dollars for religious education has worked like a charm. THe proponents of vouchers simply want to use our taxpayer dollars to send low income children to religious schools so they can be brainwashed with conservative Catholic/Christian fundamentalism. Sorry, I do not want my taxpayer dollars used towards that. Charter Schools are the way to go.