Any decision is better than no decision. The Los Angeles Unified board, calmed for a decisionless decade in its cultural Sargasso Sea, finally got decisive two weeks ago when it voted to unseat Superintendent Ruben Zacarias.So did its appointed special commission on the oft-imprecated Belmont Learning Center a week later, when it recommended, 4-3, completion of the school, despite the now well-known flammable-gas pollution on its oil-well-perforated site. (I’d like to point out that former state Senator Charles Calderon, whom I twitted last week, voted in the majority here.)There are a lot of people who like neither decision. I‘m not delighted either. The procedure behind Zacarias’ demotion might have passed muster in a Torrance ball-bearing factory, but it was no credit to the political sensitivities of board President Genethia Hayes. And to me, the previous board‘s selection and obstinate, politically pestilent defense of the Belmont site was the key symptom of the LAUSD’s mortal dysfunction.
Source: Acting Out | L.A. Weekly