The O.C. Weekly has publishes a series of posts at their Navelgazing blog illustrating the depths of the problems at the Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD).
Here are the ten worst elementary schools in Orange County:
9.) Wallace R. Davis, Santa Ana (706)
8.) Pomona, Costa Mesa (701)
7.) Lampson, Garden Grove (694)
5.) (tie) Everett R. Rea, Costa Mesa (691)
Jose Sepulveda, Santa Ana (691)
Click here to read the rest of this post.
None. Don’t participate on Reddit or elsewhere for that matter.
"Karma karma karma karma Kuo minion -- she comes and goes, she comes and go-o-o-oes"!
Which nom-de-net are you?
Hey! Number two sounds good. This must be Wykoff.
Irvine Reddit feed re same story. https://www.reddit.com/r/irvine/comments/1k1i1vu/irvine_rejects_dirty_politics/
Currently, there is a 574 vote difference between the "selected" and Kuo. This is not a landslide, more of an…
Well it's only a year-and-a-half until voting starts in the full-term election for District 5, so it's nice to see…
Agran is the same putz that endorsed khan for supervisor after she threatened revenge on the county for withdrawing from…
This Kuo creep is just another Bilodeau. Why did Agran get into bed with this zit? Other than fellow zitness.
[REDACTED] Tammy has other more pressing things to worry about like her own liberty which may be in jeopardy due…
No I am shocked!
michell amen not shocking at all . when you have tons of illegals tha dont speak english , drop out of school ,and their leaders too busy planning boycots of other states .
Santa Ana has the lowest performing schools?!?! Shocking, absolutely shocking……The thought of Santa Ana and failing schools never once crossed my mind. Santa Ana is known as such an intellectual hot bed of radical new ideas, innovation and cutting-edge technology. It’s children, the most advanced in the world………oh, crap. I was thinking about Irvine….No, I always knew Santa Ana was a cesspool of grinding poverty and hopelessness. It now resembles every other major metropolitan urban disaster, i.e. ghetto. You can only hope and pray that the sewage doesn’t seep out beyond Santa Ana’s borders and infect the rest of the County…..or has that already begun?
Fonzi,
“No, I always knew Santa Ana was a cesspool of grinding poverty and hopelessness.”
Great assessment. You are right on. So, the Santa Ana educational system can be your example of Irvine by correcting poverty and hopelessness in Santa Ana.
The Hispanic leadership sees the problem as you do and is organizing to lead the change.
Art,
You forgot to mention the OC ARTS ACADEMY.
This is the same debacle embraced by the UNusual Suspects”. In 199X Pulido, Laguna, Gee, Coreea and other Floral Park mafia types pushed hard to recruit “multi-lingual” families into what was then El Sol.
We opted out prefering Santiago and St. Joseph’s. They pushed hard and had Cynthia Crioolis sit with President Bush.
Within six months. Pulido, (withheld) and Correa had their kids back in public schools. It took the BIG proponents Laguna a year longer.
Unfortunately, the Spanish speaking kids (the other half of the emersion program) were left for dead. Correa, Pulido, Laguna either ARE BAD parents for betting on thier kids future or were simply out for themselves.
The big loser in this game was again, the local real estate mafia,who pretended that this was a viable educational opportunity allthewhile sending thier kids to Tustin and Orange for school.
John.
Thanks. I was wondering how that school ended up on the list. No bueno!
#3: it has seeped into Costa Mesa by looking at the list. Maybe the kids are getting promoted to the next level too soon. Hold them back, “flunk” is the word I think, and not promotion until they speak the language and score well enough to go forward. This will help the kids, they are not stupid, just in over their heads at whatever level they are at.
What do the numbers mean?
Is it a “grade” on how well the State run school systems works?
Maybe it is time to start up the busses again.
I can’t for the life of me understand what is going on at OCEAA. They scored a 1 out of 10 for their scores AND a 1 out of 10 for similar schools. No school in Santa Ana scored that low. I know they were started after a group was unhappy with El Sol, but what the hell is going on over there? Last year they only let in 7 kids from the lottery for their kindergarten classes. It seems that the school is made up of family and friends of the staff. The demographics of that school are much more diverse than Santa Ana in general or particularly El Sol. They have a large portion of English speaking kids who are scoring lower than low income Hispanic kids. If anyone understands this, please let me in on the secret. I don’t even know how you could try to score that low. In the meantime, I hope everyone is paying attention to the fact that El Sol’s scores are as good as the fundamental schools, much better than Santiago’s scores and they ranked an 8 out of 10 and a 10 out of 10 for similar schools. They had 98 and 99% proficient or advanced in mathematics for 2nd and 3rd grade students.
State run school system works. The teachers are much more qualified than at the private level. The problem is about 10 years ago they were hiring people if they were breathing! That allowed a lot of bad teachers into the system that are comfortable and safe. New teachers have to go through a huge process to “prove” that they are dedicated teachers. The good ones are waiting…