Changing Subjects at the L.A. Public Schools

Joanne Jacobs reports:

Good students at a very bad Los Angeles high school are complaining that dozens of classes were changed to entirely different subjects four weeks into the eight-week term. Santee’s Computer Science class became Cooking. Twelve Advanced Placement classes were turned into non-AP electives: AP History was switched to Cinema, AP English to Writing Seminar.

The new classes didn’t fit college-prep requirements. Some students were left short of credits for graduation.

Teachers believe Principal Vince Carbino hadn’t ordered the necessary textbooks for the original classes, so he switched subjects to match the books the school already had.

More happy public education customers! It really is time to separate school from state.Thanks to Darren Miller for the heads up on this outrage.