One Sub's Tales of Woe
The whole world now knows the worst about Los Angeles' public schools, thanks to Matt Drudge, who has linked to this account of LAUSD from a substitute teacher:
There's no teaching going on at LAUSD – only confinement of the sort one may find in a penal colony, complete with walkie-talkie-carrying wardens and bullhorns. And I have "confined" at many different schools within central Los Angeles in the last six months. Many students scream "suuuuuuuub" when they see someone like me – a "guest teacher" – in their classroom and trample anyone and/or anything as they push and shove their way inside.
And it only gets worse from there ...
Check out reaction to the piece here.