Christy, I don't know what your problem with this Hilda Maldonado is. To me she seems like an excellent choice for Santa Barbara Superintendent of Schools because she is fluent in Word Salad, and as we all know by this point in the 2024 election, that is the key to lifelong success in the world the Democratic Party has made.
Socratic Thinking is the Future and as we all know, thanks to Kamala, the Future is what's in front of us. This is going to be a Future in which Equity empowers us just as our Solar Panels supply our energy to be empowered.
In order for students to enter the Future of Equity, they need to know who Socrates was, even though he lived in the Past. You can't Google the price of rice to find out about Socrates. Thankfully, we have Bill Banning to inform us that Socrates was not the originator of CRT. Socrates was a Socratic Thinker. He was also bullied for his sexual identity. He didn't just do Socratic Thinking, he was an early advocate of Drag Queen Story Hour, which has been mistakenly represented in White History Books as pedophilia. Socrates died because he drank Hemlock. And this is why Hemlock is not available in the school cafeteria.
I'm pleased to be a supporter of the drive to change the name of San Marcos High School to Kamala Harris Solar Socratic Institute.
Enjoy your Word Salad World, everyone! It's Vegan!
Trump?...the important battles must be won at the local levels. The Messianic worship of governors and presidents, along with the demonizing of the same, is why our country is in such trouble. Do you really think one person alone can save us in the temporal sense?
Can I put hemlock on her Word Salad for flavor, since it IS a Socratic menu. (Confident at least some among you get the reference, and if you don't, I will gladly explain).
Los Angeles transplant Hilda Maldonado is contributing to Santa Barbara Unified’s decline or demise, or is she meeting community expectations for the monied class? Author Christy Lozano has deep, proven knowledge. Hilda brought in her crony friends from L.A. who are a group to see and hear to confirm they are all DEI hires with no commitment or ability to advancing student academic success. Same goes for SBUSD elected progressive far left Trustees who extended Hilda’s contract. Most use their school board position as a stepping stone for political career advancement, and to promote housing or their own agenda. Trustee campaigns are $$$$$ backed by area elites and professionals.
At McKinley Elementary 13.3 are proficient in math, 20.8 in English. In my neighborhood, Cleveland Elementary, 30.4% met standards in English, 28.3% in math. Should Trustees toss out Hilda and her Socratic whatever because it isn’t working? Others say, ‘No, she’s who we need.’ Why? Here’s the answer.
The discrepancies between local elementary schools reflects property ownership and parent involvement plus educational attainment. Taxable properties pay an additional tax annual to help ensure fiscal equity between CA schools(see your property tax bill). Of our five South County school districts two are high performing single school districts in wealthy Montecito.
I live .7miles walking distance between SBUSD low performing Cleveland and Montecito‘s Cold Spring (CSS) Elementary Schools. Both with homes $2M- 36M. While Cleveland students struggle academically, CSS was just ranked #1 small school in the entire State of CA! Having lived here four decades, the reason is known for the proficiency differences and the status quo is desired by some but not by Author and Educator Christy Lozano or by me.
Santa Barbara and Montecito elites, professional and middle classes need “lifestyle workers“ — dishwashers, cooks, housekeepers, dog walkers, nannies, drivers, caregivers, handymen, and gardeners.
The original intent of public schools was to prepare students for the work force. If all students are over educated academically, who will do these modern-day ESSENTIAL lifestyle jobs?
Some people think Santa Barbara is a caring community of involved residents concerned with student success: wrong! Rather, we’re one full of SF and L.A. plastic, self absorbed elites and wannabes hanging together in their own bubble; plus middle class locals concerned about their own kids, golf, or recreating. Few demand improved management of our K-14 public schools. (Will voters defeat SBCC’s Measure P? Reminder: Vote No!) The working class is too busy earning to survive so the needs of their children are left to public schools and community.
Life is good here for the monied! There’s natural beauty from the mountains to the sea plus lots of “capable, clean, polite English speaking, trusted laborers.” Those folks hiring lifestyle workers support Supt. Hilda Maldanado and the status quo.
It’s going to be a tall order to try and dislodge these people from leadership positions but it’s a job that must be done to stop this indoctrination process from continuing. The subject is so important to me because I believe that the liberal takeover of our school system is the main force driving the decline of America. Good luck in your questChristy. Many of us are here are huge fans.
“ We need to design a system ‘with students at the center’”
Recall to date SBUSD has been politically centered, doing as they are told by Newsom or some other Deep State figure. St no time has SBUSD ever cared or put the student first regarding safety or education.
They chose to spend money on a Stadium at SBHS & to purchase the Armory for no stated reason instead of fixing: frozen shut windows meant to be used for escape during emergencies, fixing the intercom system, performing pest remediation where termite droppings dropped into elementary school back packs & lunches daily, mold issues, campuses that were completely open to the public allowing criminals to run through our elementary schools, homeless selling drugs outside the school gates, drug dealers selling drugs to kids as they exit the JrHigh.
Oh right, the decades of only 40% of the Hispanic students being able to read and write at grade level. They choose to not educate the kids making excuses l8e Hilda’s ESL. Which is false, per Hispanics their children do speak English but are placed into ESL classification as soon as the school hears that the parents speak Spanish.
After all there is more funding if over half the kids can’t perform academics and schools receive more Title 1 and other monies if the sociology economics are low enough. Notice how certain schools are stacked with more Hispanics than others and lower family incomes.
The Census is supposed to create a balance to the student population. SBUSD instead allows transfers up to about 30% of the student population. SBUSD ignores the zcendus lines to purposely create “inner city” schools.
And don’t get me started on COVID. Each board member was notified by me of the CDC & FDA official data showing kids suffered zero risk from COVID but per the FDA disclosures suffered the highest risk of myocarditis and pericarditis. And then we had several high school students die from heart issues after SBUSD coerced vaccinations. Again each SBUSD board member was provided the official FDA disclosure and CDC data.
Do you know their response? They use CNN articles and opinion pieces to make decisions or they did as the SB Public Health told them to do.
Which is a lie, they did what they were told to do in order to receive $35 million in covid relief monies. Did they open schools early? No. Did they take precautions like plexi glass, hire extra janitors, etc, no. Where did $35 million go?
They did hire Coffee with a Black Guy, Laura Capps cozy friend, at $1,800 per hour despite zero qualifications to council a handful of black families.
Wake up people, and if you do not have kids in schools and never volunteered in school or showed up at a board meeting, please do not deny the above. You have no idea of what’s really going on at school.
Thank you, Christy, for another important article on the deplorable state of our public educational system. Hopefully more people will become aware and eventually we can revise the school system into a n actual learning experience rather than a political money making machine for the players.
Excellent summary Christy and those that have commented. Admittedly, I consider myself an average parent, in that my kids are grown adults, went to Goleta schools uneventfully and now working on their careers. Little thought now about K-12. Very sobering information as to how the system works. Clearly, this is a system failure at multiple levels. Take your pick; politicians, union members, staff, educators, parents and students. Seems to me, parents are at the core of any success for individual students. Parents are obviously stressed just trying to make ends meet. The lagging in test scores I’m assuming, seems to be from ESL students, whose parents are here legally or not, working as servants to those that can afford their services.
The dismal state of our California schools will continue until we as a nation have rational and sane immigration policies. There is obviously a direct correlation to between the two.
What to do in the meantime? Vote for candidates like Christy who have the expertise and knowledge to turn this around.
It sounds as though Hilda had nothing to say of substance that she could say in public.
In regard to the indoctrination of children, Vladimir Lenin, the architect of Russian Communism, said "Give me a generation of children and I will have the world". He also is reported to have said "Give me young children for four years and I will have them for life". The political indoctrination of young children in grade schools is only the start. It continues through most government funded universities and now, many prestigious ones.
There is no doubt that the American public education system has been taken over by socialists, while the general public slept.
Interesting the presentation first delves into identity. Then they get to student achievement. Is it that the robust diversity of the student population is to prepare our expectations for abysmal academic performance?
I read this percipient and "To-The-Point" article by Ms. Lozano (CORRECTED) titled
"State of the Schools" that should be Titled "Lack of Leadership and Accountability
in Santa Barbara." I had a sit-down long talk with Ms. Donovan about the
real problems that involved not just the "Lack of Leadership" but
SB So-Called Leaders utter failure to serve their Santa Barbara Community.
Ms. Donovan identifies some of these "So-Called Leaders" and I quote
"It seemed as though the entire Santa Barbara Democrat Establishment was present, including politicians Gregg Hart, Laura Capps, Eric Friedman, Byron, a rep for Salud Carbajal, and Zarate representing Monique Limon."
I provide SB Currentors the following on Leadership, and you may want to read it>>
Huh?!? If “the only thing of real importance that leaders do is create and manage
culture”, then Hilda Maldanado is an important leader— she’s indeed creating and managing local culture. Our monied class (defined as the demographic of everyone above working class) needs ‘clean, English speaking lifestyle workers’. What concerns the monied is that Hilda’s DUI/ Socratic Seminars are now teaching kids to resent, to hate, to withhold their services from the monied class. Universal Basic Income (UBI) and other entitlements like tax exempt subsidized housing support this class struggle aka cultural breakdown.
Polly, I provided Major Morehouse statement at time mark 1:16 for a REASON.
Go to time mark 1:18:30. I think the same thing has happened to Pres. Biden,
he had an accident in Vegas, probably fell again. Biden and his SS Blinken, two dayS before the Military Major meeting at Ramstein 10/12/24 with Nato today on Ukraine was suddenly cancelled.
"The Ramstein group was set to meet at the highest level on the sidelines of Biden's Oct. 10-13 state visit to Germany, which would have been the first U.S. state visit in nearly 40 years."
This was a MUST SHOW MEETING FOR BIDEN & BLINKEN because Ukraine is now Collapsing where the Joint Chiefs of Staff have possibly said NO MORE.
Well of course what are they going to say that the Joint Chiefs of Staff have CUT BIDEN OFF. I, Biden am no longer in charge of our US Military.However the cancel is a tell and now Biden is stepping on Kamy's Toes trying to re-assert himself having Pressers now at the same time as Kamy's Pressers ..... kind like Dueling Meaningless Pressers.
BTW: Christy Lozano wrote today’s article, not Bonnie Donovan as you incorrectly post. I suspect you’ve no idea of present day local CA school reality. Ignorance is not bliss when posting on social media. Truth Matters.
You self-described the shortcomings or failures of your post to my reply to your post on Christy’s enlightening article on State of Schools. No reader of posts ought need to ‘carefully read and review the links…” to anything.
You're awfully hard on people, Montecito. Most people on SB Current are struggling through this crazy time. The fact that they pitch in here with links, opinions and experience is generous of them. We're not in school trying for a good grade. None of us have to be here.
The all too common teacher union lament, every collective bargaining season: We are underpaid, overworked, under appreciated, our morale is bad, and you care more about buildings than you do people.
Yet every year we dedicate 50% of our general fund state revenues to public education, off the top. No questions asked, no expectations required. In addition are never-ending demands for more school bond issues and parcel taxes.
Is our current K-12 system, guaranteed by Prop 98, working?
If not, how do we get change by electing the same insiders over and over again. When all we hear is, we need more money if you want better results. This is a huge tragedy for those who remember the Golden Days of California public education.
Public education in fact was made universal in order to create informed voters to support America’s exceptional experiment in self-governance, which had been untried anywhere else in the world at that time.
What is our 2024 report card grade on that noble, idealistic intent established nearly 250 years ago. We do have more high school graduates today, but it appears also far less measurable education for the annual $800 billion dollar price tag.
Well stated JL. I would submit the old idea of vouchers to parents that need an alternative to this never ending madness. Yes, students should be given a choice between public vs religious schools, or schools based on Kumon, Montessori etc. Put performance and competition back into education and minimize the Teacher’s Unions all at once. Clearly, home based, private education can’t screw up our kids more than the status quo!
I’ll fight to the end your avoidance suggestion. Let’s not abandon K-14 public schools that need apolitical restructuring and a return to their original basic purposes: citizenship (civic duty) and employment preparedness (academics, vocational, life living skills).
Folks are free to pay for private or religious schools to indoctrinate their child. Taxpayers do not wish to pay for Muslim, Catholic, or any other religious or political indoctrination. We want public schools deunionized; teachers to stick to teaching subject matter.
Large districts must be split up for transparency and accountability.
De-unionizing will never happen. How many more decades of lost generations of kids do we need? Nope, past time to open it up to the private sector. Public schools had their chance and it’s to the point of no return for some districts.
Can you imagine if space exploration remained as strictly “public” ie NASA?
One president’s executive order allowed government employees to unionize in 1962. Why wouldn’t another executive order abolish them.
Taxpayers have a direct interest in this matter. It belongs to no one else. Rescind the EO, and get back to public education basics.
Let teachers love teaching again. Not be forced to run across the hot coals of teacher union politics. Plus get an immediate $1000 raise not having teacher union dues skimmed off the top of their paychecks.
The sooner we take teachers unions out of public education, the quicker we stop destroying another generation of young Americans. We have work to do. They can burn all the volumes of the California Education Code on their way out the door. A renaissance for California public education is at hand.
“ Major Study of 1.7 Million Children Finds Myocarditis Only in Kids Given COVID-19 Vaccines”
Recall SBUSD regularly hosted vaccine clinics on public school grounds. They rewarded kids with treats like pizza for getting vaccinated , they told kids that they did not need to tell their parents about the vaccination.
SBUSD tried to require child vaccinations for kids to go on field trips.
Here the important point. Every SBUSD board member was provided the official CDC data & FDA disclosures back in 2021 which stated kids have zero risk from COVID but suffer the highest risk of myocarditis and pericarditis. I personally sent the official informal and disclosures.
They knew they were harming children.
Even a small risk of heart inflammation for adolescents who are not at risk from COVID-19 is too much. Yet the people in charge of our children’s safety sold them out for personal gain over children’s safety.
The scandal that was the Plague Vaxx is only beginning to play out in Excess Mortality statistics. And to think the ones who poisoned the children have the gall to ask for raises even as academic performance failures show the insufficiency of the education on offer.
Ever wonder why “Covid” did not affect young people?
But strck mainly “old people” already suffering from multiple serious co-morbidities.
Did Covid check IDs at the door like bars and liquor stores? Or were we victimized by selective data distortions. Just like climate change claims for rising global temperatures.
SB City (Community) College Data below shows readers WHY low performing out of district students come to SBCC for its guaranteed automatic transfer into UCSB after 60 units, despite their lack of any academic proficiency: average is 5th grade level. Moreover, data shows why elite top 50 national universities require AP scores of 4 & 5 in 6-12 academic subject areas regardless of GOAs deemed unreliable.
Only about 1/4 of SBCC students can pass Year One math and English proficiency tests. To be learning and academically prepared for SBUSD secondary high schools, parents know to reside in one of the 4-non SBUSD Elementary Districts (choose Montecito U, Cold Spring, Hope, or Goleta). Otherwise, it’s a dice toss. Every CA student needs a good elementary District; and if lucky has a parent or adult, who can afford to be involved.
Data shows SBUSD Supt Hilda Maldonado needs to focus on academic survival basics and teaching the love of learning rather than solar, DEI or Socratic whatever.
Thanks again to Veteran, Educator, and Author Christy Lazano for attending another full-day worthless seminar.
The teachers that mattered most in my own early education loved their subject matter. It was infectious.
Now all we hear about teachers is how unhappy and resentful they are, when they come before the public via their teacher union PR campaigns and spokespersons. How does this anger and resentment come across in the classrooms when students are forced to carry out the teachers union political agendas?
The more that I think about our current educational system, the more I see that the whole system needs to be completely dismantled. We place such an importance on a college education and yet when you think about it, grade school is really the most important time of learning for a child, or it should be. Reading, the ability to write and good basic concepts of fundamental arithmetic should be completed by the time of graduating from grade school as well as a good assortment of basic history. and just as importantly the knack of communication between your peers and your instructors. Six more years is our traditional length of time after grade school and I think probably two years too long. Then there's college to get the credentials in whatever field you want to endeavor. Now with the internet, except for specialty degrees, a good portion of the learning in colleges and unis can be done online. When you think that a university head can make over three quarters of a million dollars for his position, things have gone way too far. Learning the basics of education and civics plus the chance to go out in the world to make a living from what you have learned used to, I thought, be the reasoning behind the public school system. Now it has become more of an indoctrination process for the students and very, very hefty benefits for the folks that run the system.
Ah, very interesting thay education must be dismantled, yet when wr apply this same concept to the American republic that's somehow too far, even thouhh the latter has failed in creating a moral and virtuous society. So as long as we are comfortable with decay there's no need to dismantle a system...
You do keep trying, in vain I might add, to get your point across about the downfall of the American republic. Not too many places in the world can you live and go on and on in such a treasonous manner and only have to worry about sounding like an ass instead of ending up in a prison or worse.
I am a proud traitor to an immoral regime. America is even worse than brutal dictatorships, because at least in the latter the disdiain for truth, goodness, and charity is clear - it is like a warrior openly proclaiming his desire to slay you. America with its "rights" breed complacency, the very complacency that seduces and destroys Christianity and conservatism from within.
Based off your response Monica, you seem to value comfort over truth, goodness, and love. It's better for a man to die a martyr, adorned with his own blood to a cruel regime, than for that same man to die in the embrace of the seductresw who made him turn away from everything good... and yet still betrays him in the end.
Christy, I don't know what your problem with this Hilda Maldonado is. To me she seems like an excellent choice for Santa Barbara Superintendent of Schools because she is fluent in Word Salad, and as we all know by this point in the 2024 election, that is the key to lifelong success in the world the Democratic Party has made.
Socratic Thinking is the Future and as we all know, thanks to Kamala, the Future is what's in front of us. This is going to be a Future in which Equity empowers us just as our Solar Panels supply our energy to be empowered.
In order for students to enter the Future of Equity, they need to know who Socrates was, even though he lived in the Past. You can't Google the price of rice to find out about Socrates. Thankfully, we have Bill Banning to inform us that Socrates was not the originator of CRT. Socrates was a Socratic Thinker. He was also bullied for his sexual identity. He didn't just do Socratic Thinking, he was an early advocate of Drag Queen Story Hour, which has been mistakenly represented in White History Books as pedophilia. Socrates died because he drank Hemlock. And this is why Hemlock is not available in the school cafeteria.
I'm pleased to be a supporter of the drive to change the name of San Marcos High School to Kamala Harris Solar Socratic Institute.
Enjoy your Word Salad World, everyone! It's Vegan!
That was too much😂. Love your comment😘
Trump, the destroyer of Word Salad Democracy is at it again! He has divided a retirement community into Pickleball brawls!
https://tinyurl.com/32u2cwhf
Trump?...the important battles must be won at the local levels. The Messianic worship of governors and presidents, along with the demonizing of the same, is why our country is in such trouble. Do you really think one person alone can save us in the temporal sense?
Good job w the word salad yourself
I have no clue what you are talking about .. really ..? yes
Vote out the democrats would be wiser then your word salad
Make our school boards independent and non-partisan, as intended. No longer purchased by teacher union interests.
Can I put hemlock on her Word Salad for flavor, since it IS a Socratic menu. (Confident at least some among you get the reference, and if you don't, I will gladly explain).
😂😂😂, Bill. You made my Sunday.
Thank you, but I hope people wake up before it's too late.
Los Angeles transplant Hilda Maldonado is contributing to Santa Barbara Unified’s decline or demise, or is she meeting community expectations for the monied class? Author Christy Lozano has deep, proven knowledge. Hilda brought in her crony friends from L.A. who are a group to see and hear to confirm they are all DEI hires with no commitment or ability to advancing student academic success. Same goes for SBUSD elected progressive far left Trustees who extended Hilda’s contract. Most use their school board position as a stepping stone for political career advancement, and to promote housing or their own agenda. Trustee campaigns are $$$$$ backed by area elites and professionals.
At McKinley Elementary 13.3 are proficient in math, 20.8 in English. In my neighborhood, Cleveland Elementary, 30.4% met standards in English, 28.3% in math. Should Trustees toss out Hilda and her Socratic whatever because it isn’t working? Others say, ‘No, she’s who we need.’ Why? Here’s the answer.
The discrepancies between local elementary schools reflects property ownership and parent involvement plus educational attainment. Taxable properties pay an additional tax annual to help ensure fiscal equity between CA schools(see your property tax bill). Of our five South County school districts two are high performing single school districts in wealthy Montecito.
I live .7miles walking distance between SBUSD low performing Cleveland and Montecito‘s Cold Spring (CSS) Elementary Schools. Both with homes $2M- 36M. While Cleveland students struggle academically, CSS was just ranked #1 small school in the entire State of CA! Having lived here four decades, the reason is known for the proficiency differences and the status quo is desired by some but not by Author and Educator Christy Lozano or by me.
Santa Barbara and Montecito elites, professional and middle classes need “lifestyle workers“ — dishwashers, cooks, housekeepers, dog walkers, nannies, drivers, caregivers, handymen, and gardeners.
The original intent of public schools was to prepare students for the work force. If all students are over educated academically, who will do these modern-day ESSENTIAL lifestyle jobs?
Some people think Santa Barbara is a caring community of involved residents concerned with student success: wrong! Rather, we’re one full of SF and L.A. plastic, self absorbed elites and wannabes hanging together in their own bubble; plus middle class locals concerned about their own kids, golf, or recreating. Few demand improved management of our K-14 public schools. (Will voters defeat SBCC’s Measure P? Reminder: Vote No!) The working class is too busy earning to survive so the needs of their children are left to public schools and community.
Life is good here for the monied! There’s natural beauty from the mountains to the sea plus lots of “capable, clean, polite English speaking, trusted laborers.” Those folks hiring lifestyle workers support Supt. Hilda Maldanado and the status quo.
Subject: 2023-24 SBUSD Student Data & Test Scores
https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sbunified/Board.nsf/files/D9NW2J83506C/$file/24-25%20Student%20Outcomes%20Report%20%231%20(Updated%2010_01_2024).pdf
It’s going to be a tall order to try and dislodge these people from leadership positions but it’s a job that must be done to stop this indoctrination process from continuing. The subject is so important to me because I believe that the liberal takeover of our school system is the main force driving the decline of America. Good luck in your questChristy. Many of us are here are huge fans.
It can happen this Nov 5 if we get other to vote! Thank you.
“ We need to design a system ‘with students at the center’”
Recall to date SBUSD has been politically centered, doing as they are told by Newsom or some other Deep State figure. St no time has SBUSD ever cared or put the student first regarding safety or education.
They chose to spend money on a Stadium at SBHS & to purchase the Armory for no stated reason instead of fixing: frozen shut windows meant to be used for escape during emergencies, fixing the intercom system, performing pest remediation where termite droppings dropped into elementary school back packs & lunches daily, mold issues, campuses that were completely open to the public allowing criminals to run through our elementary schools, homeless selling drugs outside the school gates, drug dealers selling drugs to kids as they exit the JrHigh.
Oh right, the decades of only 40% of the Hispanic students being able to read and write at grade level. They choose to not educate the kids making excuses l8e Hilda’s ESL. Which is false, per Hispanics their children do speak English but are placed into ESL classification as soon as the school hears that the parents speak Spanish.
After all there is more funding if over half the kids can’t perform academics and schools receive more Title 1 and other monies if the sociology economics are low enough. Notice how certain schools are stacked with more Hispanics than others and lower family incomes.
The Census is supposed to create a balance to the student population. SBUSD instead allows transfers up to about 30% of the student population. SBUSD ignores the zcendus lines to purposely create “inner city” schools.
And don’t get me started on COVID. Each board member was notified by me of the CDC & FDA official data showing kids suffered zero risk from COVID but per the FDA disclosures suffered the highest risk of myocarditis and pericarditis. And then we had several high school students die from heart issues after SBUSD coerced vaccinations. Again each SBUSD board member was provided the official FDA disclosure and CDC data.
Do you know their response? They use CNN articles and opinion pieces to make decisions or they did as the SB Public Health told them to do.
Which is a lie, they did what they were told to do in order to receive $35 million in covid relief monies. Did they open schools early? No. Did they take precautions like plexi glass, hire extra janitors, etc, no. Where did $35 million go?
They did hire Coffee with a Black Guy, Laura Capps cozy friend, at $1,800 per hour despite zero qualifications to council a handful of black families.
Wake up people, and if you do not have kids in schools and never volunteered in school or showed up at a board meeting, please do not deny the above. You have no idea of what’s really going on at school.
Vote Christy Lozano for COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, GOVERNING BOARD MEMBER, TRUSTEE AREA 2.
Thank you, Christy, for another important article on the deplorable state of our public educational system. Hopefully more people will become aware and eventually we can revise the school system into a n actual learning experience rather than a political money making machine for the players.
Excellent summary Christy and those that have commented. Admittedly, I consider myself an average parent, in that my kids are grown adults, went to Goleta schools uneventfully and now working on their careers. Little thought now about K-12. Very sobering information as to how the system works. Clearly, this is a system failure at multiple levels. Take your pick; politicians, union members, staff, educators, parents and students. Seems to me, parents are at the core of any success for individual students. Parents are obviously stressed just trying to make ends meet. The lagging in test scores I’m assuming, seems to be from ESL students, whose parents are here legally or not, working as servants to those that can afford their services.
The dismal state of our California schools will continue until we as a nation have rational and sane immigration policies. There is obviously a direct correlation to between the two.
What to do in the meantime? Vote for candidates like Christy who have the expertise and knowledge to turn this around.
It sounds as though Hilda had nothing to say of substance that she could say in public.
In regard to the indoctrination of children, Vladimir Lenin, the architect of Russian Communism, said "Give me a generation of children and I will have the world". He also is reported to have said "Give me young children for four years and I will have them for life". The political indoctrination of young children in grade schools is only the start. It continues through most government funded universities and now, many prestigious ones.
There is no doubt that the American public education system has been taken over by socialists, while the general public slept.
Check it out! 2023-24 SBUSD Student Data & Test Scores
https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sbunified/Board.nsf/files/D9NW2J83506C/$file/24-25%20Student%20Outcomes%20Report%20%231%20(Updated%2010_01_2024).pdf
Interesting the presentation first delves into identity. Then they get to student achievement. Is it that the robust diversity of the student population is to prepare our expectations for abysmal academic performance?
I read this percipient and "To-The-Point" article by Ms. Lozano (CORRECTED) titled
"State of the Schools" that should be Titled "Lack of Leadership and Accountability
in Santa Barbara." I had a sit-down long talk with Ms. Donovan about the
real problems that involved not just the "Lack of Leadership" but
SB So-Called Leaders utter failure to serve their Santa Barbara Community.
Ms. Donovan identifies some of these "So-Called Leaders" and I quote
"It seemed as though the entire Santa Barbara Democrat Establishment was present, including politicians Gregg Hart, Laura Capps, Eric Friedman, Byron, a rep for Salud Carbajal, and Zarate representing Monique Limon."
I provide SB Currentors the following on Leadership, and you may want to read it>>
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA326593.pdf
"The Impact of Leaders on Organizational Culture: A 75th Ranger Regiment Case Study"
You also may want to review the "Iron Major" in Charge of Training the new 75th Ranger
Regiment, Major David Morehouse statements on how the entire Special Forces of the US was transformed after "Vietnam War" here>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq1lwrqWZ2I&t=487s&ab_channel=DannyJones
Go to Time Mark 1:16 to 1:26 Why Ranger Regiment was formed so quickly in 1974.
Here is "A Challenge" to former Marine Salud Carbajal. Your service is to your citizens of
your community and not to the Democrat Party. You know who is here and the very
serious problems that exist within the current leadership of your SB community.
That "Change" is already being made for you and it is sad you didn't listen to your community.
Time for a Change ..............................
Howard Walther, member of a Military Family
PS - I quote from the Conclusion of the Leadership Report by LTC Francis H. Kearney above
"Organizational cultures are created by leaders, and one of the most decisive
function's of leadership may well be the creation, the management and-if necessary-the
destruction of culture...In fact there is a possibility-underemphasized in leadership
research-that the only thing of real importance that leaders do is create and manage
culture."
Huh?!? If “the only thing of real importance that leaders do is create and manage
culture”, then Hilda Maldanado is an important leader— she’s indeed creating and managing local culture. Our monied class (defined as the demographic of everyone above working class) needs ‘clean, English speaking lifestyle workers’. What concerns the monied is that Hilda’s DUI/ Socratic Seminars are now teaching kids to resent, to hate, to withhold their services from the monied class. Universal Basic Income (UBI) and other entitlements like tax exempt subsidized housing support this class struggle aka cultural breakdown.
You have absolutely no idea what I, or Major Moorehouse is talking about in
a "Culture of Service." Before you comment you may want to carefully
read and review the links from some of the foremost "experienced" experts
on Leadership. Man do you people have the Ideological Desease of WOKESPOKE
and ANTI-WOKESPOKE. WAKE-UP it is all about SERVICE ........................
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Thank you, Howard. Fascinating.
Polly, I provided Major Morehouse statement at time mark 1:16 for a REASON.
Go to time mark 1:18:30. I think the same thing has happened to Pres. Biden,
he had an accident in Vegas, probably fell again. Biden and his SS Blinken, two dayS before the Military Major meeting at Ramstein 10/12/24 with Nato today on Ukraine was suddenly cancelled.
https://www.rferl.org/a/ramstein-meeting-on-ukraine-cancelled-nato-sources-tell-rfe-rl/33152025.html
"The Ramstein group was set to meet at the highest level on the sidelines of Biden's Oct. 10-13 state visit to Germany, which would have been the first U.S. state visit in nearly 40 years."
This was a MUST SHOW MEETING FOR BIDEN & BLINKEN because Ukraine is now Collapsing where the Joint Chiefs of Staff have possibly said NO MORE.
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Biden's people are saying it's because of Hurricane Milton. I don't buy that, do you?
Well of course what are they going to say that the Joint Chiefs of Staff have CUT BIDEN OFF. I, Biden am no longer in charge of our US Military.However the cancel is a tell and now Biden is stepping on Kamy's Toes trying to re-assert himself having Pressers now at the same time as Kamy's Pressers ..... kind like Dueling Meaningless Pressers.
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BTW: Christy Lozano wrote today’s article, not Bonnie Donovan as you incorrectly post. I suspect you’ve no idea of present day local CA school reality. Ignorance is not bliss when posting on social media. Truth Matters.
Montecito, Howard is an experienced and intelligent observer of leadership. I found the David Morehouse link fascinating and very apropos.
You self-described the shortcomings or failures of your post to my reply to your post on Christy’s enlightening article on State of Schools. No reader of posts ought need to ‘carefully read and review the links…” to anything.
You're awfully hard on people, Montecito. Most people on SB Current are struggling through this crazy time. The fact that they pitch in here with links, opinions and experience is generous of them. We're not in school trying for a good grade. None of us have to be here.
Right on kiddo.
The all too common teacher union lament, every collective bargaining season: We are underpaid, overworked, under appreciated, our morale is bad, and you care more about buildings than you do people.
Yet every year we dedicate 50% of our general fund state revenues to public education, off the top. No questions asked, no expectations required. In addition are never-ending demands for more school bond issues and parcel taxes.
Is our current K-12 system, guaranteed by Prop 98, working?
If not, how do we get change by electing the same insiders over and over again. When all we hear is, we need more money if you want better results. This is a huge tragedy for those who remember the Golden Days of California public education.
Public education in fact was made universal in order to create informed voters to support America’s exceptional experiment in self-governance, which had been untried anywhere else in the world at that time.
What is our 2024 report card grade on that noble, idealistic intent established nearly 250 years ago. We do have more high school graduates today, but it appears also far less measurable education for the annual $800 billion dollar price tag.
Well stated JL. I would submit the old idea of vouchers to parents that need an alternative to this never ending madness. Yes, students should be given a choice between public vs religious schools, or schools based on Kumon, Montessori etc. Put performance and competition back into education and minimize the Teacher’s Unions all at once. Clearly, home based, private education can’t screw up our kids more than the status quo!
I’ll fight to the end your avoidance suggestion. Let’s not abandon K-14 public schools that need apolitical restructuring and a return to their original basic purposes: citizenship (civic duty) and employment preparedness (academics, vocational, life living skills).
Folks are free to pay for private or religious schools to indoctrinate their child. Taxpayers do not wish to pay for Muslim, Catholic, or any other religious or political indoctrination. We want public schools deunionized; teachers to stick to teaching subject matter.
Large districts must be split up for transparency and accountability.
De-unionizing will never happen. How many more decades of lost generations of kids do we need? Nope, past time to open it up to the private sector. Public schools had their chance and it’s to the point of no return for some districts.
Can you imagine if space exploration remained as strictly “public” ie NASA?
One president’s executive order allowed government employees to unionize in 1962. Why wouldn’t another executive order abolish them.
Taxpayers have a direct interest in this matter. It belongs to no one else. Rescind the EO, and get back to public education basics.
Let teachers love teaching again. Not be forced to run across the hot coals of teacher union politics. Plus get an immediate $1000 raise not having teacher union dues skimmed off the top of their paychecks.
The sooner we take teachers unions out of public education, the quicker we stop destroying another generation of young Americans. We have work to do. They can burn all the volumes of the California Education Code on their way out the door. A renaissance for California public education is at hand.
“ Major Study of 1.7 Million Children Finds Myocarditis Only in Kids Given COVID-19 Vaccines”
Recall SBUSD regularly hosted vaccine clinics on public school grounds. They rewarded kids with treats like pizza for getting vaccinated , they told kids that they did not need to tell their parents about the vaccination.
SBUSD tried to require child vaccinations for kids to go on field trips.
Here the important point. Every SBUSD board member was provided the official CDC data & FDA disclosures back in 2021 which stated kids have zero risk from COVID but suffer the highest risk of myocarditis and pericarditis. I personally sent the official informal and disclosures.
They knew they were harming children.
Even a small risk of heart inflammation for adolescents who are not at risk from COVID-19 is too much. Yet the people in charge of our children’s safety sold them out for personal gain over children’s safety.
https://reformpharmanow.substack.com/p/major-study-17-million-children-mycarditis-covid-vaccine?utm_campaign=post&triedRedirect=true
The scandal that was the Plague Vaxx is only beginning to play out in Excess Mortality statistics. And to think the ones who poisoned the children have the gall to ask for raises even as academic performance failures show the insufficiency of the education on offer.
Ever wonder why “Covid” did not affect young people?
But strck mainly “old people” already suffering from multiple serious co-morbidities.
Did Covid check IDs at the door like bars and liquor stores? Or were we victimized by selective data distortions. Just like climate change claims for rising global temperatures.
Vote. Them. Out.
We can change all this in less than 30 days. I agree 1000%!
https://www.calpassplus.org/LaunchBoard/Student-Success-Metrics
SB City (Community) College Data below shows readers WHY low performing out of district students come to SBCC for its guaranteed automatic transfer into UCSB after 60 units, despite their lack of any academic proficiency: average is 5th grade level. Moreover, data shows why elite top 50 national universities require AP scores of 4 & 5 in 6-12 academic subject areas regardless of GOAs deemed unreliable.
Only about 1/4 of SBCC students can pass Year One math and English proficiency tests. To be learning and academically prepared for SBUSD secondary high schools, parents know to reside in one of the 4-non SBUSD Elementary Districts (choose Montecito U, Cold Spring, Hope, or Goleta). Otherwise, it’s a dice toss. Every CA student needs a good elementary District; and if lucky has a parent or adult, who can afford to be involved.
Data shows SBUSD Supt Hilda Maldonado needs to focus on academic survival basics and teaching the love of learning rather than solar, DEI or Socratic whatever.
Thanks again to Veteran, Educator, and Author Christy Lazano for attending another full-day worthless seminar.
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The teachers that mattered most in my own early education loved their subject matter. It was infectious.
Now all we hear about teachers is how unhappy and resentful they are, when they come before the public via their teacher union PR campaigns and spokespersons. How does this anger and resentment come across in the classrooms when students are forced to carry out the teachers union political agendas?
The more that I think about our current educational system, the more I see that the whole system needs to be completely dismantled. We place such an importance on a college education and yet when you think about it, grade school is really the most important time of learning for a child, or it should be. Reading, the ability to write and good basic concepts of fundamental arithmetic should be completed by the time of graduating from grade school as well as a good assortment of basic history. and just as importantly the knack of communication between your peers and your instructors. Six more years is our traditional length of time after grade school and I think probably two years too long. Then there's college to get the credentials in whatever field you want to endeavor. Now with the internet, except for specialty degrees, a good portion of the learning in colleges and unis can be done online. When you think that a university head can make over three quarters of a million dollars for his position, things have gone way too far. Learning the basics of education and civics plus the chance to go out in the world to make a living from what you have learned used to, I thought, be the reasoning behind the public school system. Now it has become more of an indoctrination process for the students and very, very hefty benefits for the folks that run the system.
Ah, very interesting thay education must be dismantled, yet when wr apply this same concept to the American republic that's somehow too far, even thouhh the latter has failed in creating a moral and virtuous society. So as long as we are comfortable with decay there's no need to dismantle a system...
You do keep trying, in vain I might add, to get your point across about the downfall of the American republic. Not too many places in the world can you live and go on and on in such a treasonous manner and only have to worry about sounding like an ass instead of ending up in a prison or worse.
"A tyrant dies and his reign ends. A martyr dies, and his reign begins."
I am a proud traitor to an immoral regime. America is even worse than brutal dictatorships, because at least in the latter the disdiain for truth, goodness, and charity is clear - it is like a warrior openly proclaiming his desire to slay you. America with its "rights" breed complacency, the very complacency that seduces and destroys Christianity and conservatism from within.
Based off your response Monica, you seem to value comfort over truth, goodness, and love. It's better for a man to die a martyr, adorned with his own blood to a cruel regime, than for that same man to die in the embrace of the seductresw who made him turn away from everything good... and yet still betrays him in the end.
"Boinas rojas vencer o morrir!"