Now the Los Angeles School District officially wants to abandon the Belmont Learning Complex as a school site. This may not be a good idea, but who could blame the LAUSD superintendent and COO for their finding? Whether Belmont is irremediably dangerous due to its oil-field history is something that may never be proved. But the 35-acre center is certainly, fatally tainted by decades of administrative malfeasance: willful, inadvertent and every gradation between.Belmont symbolizes everything that has gone wrong with educational bureaucracy in general and the LAUSD in particular for the past generation. It is to the ideal of public education what Chernobyl was to nuclear power. It may yet eventuate the breakup of the Los Angeles district itself — something no less of an authority than City Councilman and proud Lincoln Explorer driver Nate Holden predicted on the Los Angeles City Council floor last Friday.
Source: Rough Justice | L.A. Weekly