A simple look at the LAUSD may reveal key issues that greatly affect the quality, scope, and depth of individual learning. Overcrowding in the classroom and general populations on most urban campuses has achieved its maximums. The increasing immigrant base mixed with existing social, financial hardships for average working Americans, fuels the dearth of opportunity for essential parental development and consensus toward child rearing. Simply put, there does not seem to be enough time in an average parent’s day to give quality behavioral instruction and basic educational guidance to their children. With so many people in Los Angeles, where literacy rates rate around 40% for the total population, most parents barely have a proper base in or understanding of core a curriculum. Most classrooms begin at an educational deficit due to these facts. Having taught for over ten years in the classroom and other educational programs, I would say that the expectations on the average teacher is overwhelming and prone to failure.
Originally Written 4/2006 by Marty Smith
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