Dear 2UrbanGirls,
Attached you find a letter of response from the principal of Woodworth-Monroe. The letter was distributed by the principal after your article “Does This Sound Fishy?” was published.
Why were the classes still labeled as science classes and health classes until the 2 Urban Girls exposed it? It is suspicious that now the names of the classes have been changed to Drama and Robotics E-Sports and these name changes were officially dated back to the beginning of the school year in August when there was a permanent Science teacher? In essence, the credentialed Science teacher never existed.
Why not change the name of the health classes since health is an elective? However, since Science is one of the “core academic subjects,” it is a required class. Note that one Science class was an honors class.
It is the responsibility of the district and the Los Angeles County Office of Education to do their due diligence to secure a credentialed teacher even if they must make an appeal to recruit a retired science teacher to fill the slot. Filling the slot with an elective teacher just coming off an administrative leave of absence is unacceptable.
A Concerned Stakeholder
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Principal Caldwell “took” another job as principal at a different school to be “closer to family” BUT everyone knows that’s a lie. During his position as principal for WoodWorth Monroe various incidents had happened where he didn’t disclose VERY important information regarding student safety. He’s also swept under the rug a lot of incidents including teacher misconduct, sexual harassment, and kids bring in drugs/weapons to school. We need to place close attention to who we bring into our school and teach our kids. Woodworth Monroe is being run to the ground by administration and school board members who don’t care. Further putting our children at risk, we need to take a stand and attend the next town meeting to address our concerns, we owe it to our children to advocate for them when no one else will. Apart from that some of the teachers there are racist and have made micro aggressive comments towards students. We need to listen to our kids.
Well we must give credit to the Principal for his attempts to explain away the lack of a health teacher.
Unfortunately the continued misrepresentation (over many months) that there was a health teacher is simply not acceptable !
It may be that the principal and State Advisor Torres think we are all as math challenged as the recent students leaving their educational domain. To only come clean with the truth there has been NO HEALTH TEACHER just10 weeks before the end of the 40 plus week school year acknowledges the continued falsehood for almost 75% or 3/4 of the school year!
The maintaining of this falsehood for the prior months-September, October, November, December, January, February and yes finally March is a complete betrayal of public trust !!!! This betrayal means only in April, May, and part of June is the public (which pays the bills for this entire School District) being told the truth of the failures to recruit a teacher and the substitution with a space holding non-science/ health-credentialed body.
Not that those report cards actually indicate learning anymore, but were the subject matters lied about in the prior semester grading ? If so will the district go back and correct the false headings of science and health to speech or robotics?
To suggest public speaking replaces the importance of learning about one’s body is about as clever as saying when you order and pay for a lobster and steak dinner you should be happy to get corn meal or beans because the cattlemen and fishermen got caught in a snow storm!!
This is another in the very long LIST of LIES, MISREPRESENTATIONS, and FALSEHOODS perpetuated by the INGLEWOOD UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION !!!!
If the original letter was not sent to 2 urban girls most of us would not be aware that our students were not being taught health classes…..let that soak in…..hmm how much are we paying for lies? How much do we pay for that “school news publication” to spread only happiness.?
…makes ya wonder doesn’t it?……what other falsehoods will come to light…….aka vote for a property tax to fix the schools but forgetting to tell us that closure and sale of schools is in process. (Some fell for that hogwash not once, not twice, but three times and the contractors who financed those school bond campaigns thank you for those really nice vacations the bonds provided)
Could such awareness be why the administration does not want PTA parents AND community to meet — we might learn about many more falsehoods and DEMAND BETTER.
Is there a lack of creativity re finding a Teacher? Astounding isn’t it… think this through Los Angeles is the home of World Class Hospitals UCLA, USC, Cedars Sinai, Harbor General, and the Large HMO networks Kaiser Permanente & Blue Cross- Blue Shield ..and all those affiliated medical professionals in private practice…. serving over 10 million residents of the County
.and yet. our administration could not figure out how to outreach to the multitude of health providers Doctors, Nurses, Medical Technicians retired or not being utilized in Covid care (remember elective surgery and dr appointments were limited to only urgent need rather than routine checkup in person visits) to have zoom or rotating guest lecturers or zoom classes hooked up with (the we hope they have) health teacher at Crozier or Parent Middle Schools,..
……so instead they want us to believe a speech class will substitute healthy diet awareness/ where do babies come from /your bodies are changing this is what to expect /and the dangers of using controlled substances classes? Really? again Really?
So here are some possible explanations:
A) administration is simply clueless ~ or~
B) administration is manipulating recruitment failures so that enrollment drops and billionaires will get the land which was set aside by the no longer living elected who cared about our future children’s education .
Perhaps too few Remember..
“Children are our most valuable resource and the hope of our future”- (JFK) was an important concept embraced by most Americans
And those lyrics
“Children our our future,
Teach them well……..” were widely sung …..Guess that’s just a sixties thing huh?
“A teacher has not taught, until the student has learned” ..Henrietta Mears
How embarrassing it is for those who dedicated their lives to education that we have this complete dedication to non-education thriving within our community with no means of distinguishing the difference without personal experience.
Thank you to those who embraced the vintage concepts and prepared students to make the world a better place.
Unfortunately many other school employees they have proven respect should not be granted simply because of a job title.