The most recent example of distorted news comes from LA Times reporters Watanabe and Blum's (11/8/15) "Disorder In The Classroom," about an increasingly serious epidemic of willful student increased violence and defiance of school authority, after the LAUSD decision to eliminate student suspensions. The article goes downplays the terrible costs that teachers and administrators must pay to subsidize this ill-conceived program . Never ever addressed is why disruptive students are more active now. Could it be the humiliation and verifiable impossibility of engaging students that are profoundly behind grade-level -- socially promoted years beyond their actual ability -- with no prior grade-level mastery thatallows them to be productively engaged in the classroom in a positive manner?
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