How America Is Failing Native American Students in Los Angeles too...
The idiot rightwing bloggers in LA are at it again. Since 2006, these idiots have slandered, defamed and mocked our work, our leadership and our vision of Indigenous education in the barrio. Never mind these rightwing creeps aren’t even qualified to teach a Trump University online course, but these libertarian/republican stalkers think they can determine what is best for our children. Their critiques are veiled in feigned calls for educational quality. The LAUSD too has made it easy to justify rightwing calls for assimilation and deculturalization as “high quality education”, as board members wring their hands onesizefitsall policies. Just like the anti-Mexican, English-only movement in California claimed to want nothing but equality for the little brown ones, the District and the rightwing nuts both claim to know what a quality education is for Indigenous students - even as they have no example to point to. By now, the failures of NCLB are obvious. Many of us knew, NCLB was always bound to fail, but for over a decade, sincere educators, education beat reporters and idiot rightwingnitwit bloggers alike pummeled Semillas because we refused to be driven by API scores and AYP reports. Then, NCLB disappeared and all of the sudden multiple measures matter. Multiple measures? State priorities? Educational success?
We will define these for ourselves.
The #rightwingnuts in Los Angeles are not only out of touch, they are dangerous. Don’t know what I mean? Trump politics, dog whistle racism and white power demands for equality are often led by the couch potato internet weirdos who get other wackos to weaponize their hate. Don’t become an unwitting accomplice.
@TheNation recently contextualized what so many of us know based upon our practice and our experience.
How America Is Failing Native American Students in Los Angeles too...
“I hate teachers who are more like, ‘I’m only here to teach—I’m not here to know your family,’” David said. “Being aware of what the students go through—not just Native students, but Hispanics too—will help the teachers manage their classrooms.”
Dear LAUSD, you should read this article... https://www.thenation.com/article/left-behind/
Your failures are all your own.
Reported results of American Indian student performance in 2018 are dismal. According to the State’s reports on graduation rates for American Indians, LAUSD has a 67.7% Graduation Rate (Classified as RED or LOWEST performance) which is identified as SIGNIFICANTLY DECLINED BY 5.6% but on par with the failure of public education across the country.
In California, American Indian Socio-Economically Disadvantaged students faired worse than their peers in the Smarter Balanced 2018 exams. 70% Did not meet English standards, 81.28% did not
meet Math standards.
In LAUSD, American Indian Socio-Economically Disadvantaged students were similarly challenged and 61.07% Did not meet English standards, while 79.04% did not meet Math standards.
We are concerned that these results do not indicate our students’ true potential, but more accurately reflect the District’s utter failure to provide access to a free and appropriate public education attentive to the particular needs of this student population.
Noting that programs and funding for American Indian students in the District have been declining due to the lack of an effective effort to seek and identify American Indian students on the part of the LAUSD in accordance with the law,
Concerned that the District’s official student information system methodically erases the true demographic presence of American Indian students in Los Angeles by pigeonholing students into one ethnicity or racial identity over another.
We call upon the Board of Education review and adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the specific measures which address the needs of Indigenous children and families so as to advance towards a more meaningful solution to both the immediate negative impact of existing policies and the historic damages of boarding and other compulsory educational governmental models of schooling.
We also urge the District to partner with other organizations, like Anahuacalmecac, and nations and elders in recognizing 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages as declared by the United Nations General Assembly following a recommendation made by the Expert Group Meeting on Indigenous Languages in which we submitted supporting interventions in 2016.
One important way LAUSD can demonstrate support for and work to amplify the voices of Indigenous language speakers and communities in Los Angeles is to renew the charter of Anahuacalmecac fully respecting our community’s rights to autonomy, language and self-determination.
Nick Melvoin Kelly Gonez CCSA Families Austin Beutner Richelle Rae Huizar Jose Huizar Raul Claros California Rising Semillas Community Schools c/s
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