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LAUSD: Grading the Parents.

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Grading the Parents

Test Results from Johnson Middle School

5th Grade/ Mr. Robert Wallace, teacher

Los Angeles, CA

STUDENT PARENT PARENT GRADE PARENT PERFORMANCE COMMENTS/ SUGGESTIONS
Hector Alvarez Marsha Alvarez C No home cooked meals. Eat home more.
Kim Sing Kee Sing A Very clean bathroom in home. Keep on cleaning.
Ava Yaros Penny Yaros B- Mother commutes but encourages homework. Call daughter from freeway to keep tabs.
Gina Cohen Larry Cohen C+ Father hardly reads books. Buy Kindle.
Manuel Elindor Yuri Elindor B+ Father yells, but is strict. Lower your voice.
Samoo Genjai Vijay Genjai A Homework hour lasts from 6pm-midnight. Consider 1am end for homework hour.
Ina Balgagian Mina Bagagian F Ugly curtains near desk may discourage studying. Mini-blinds or bamboo shades.
Tomar Interissian Crobar Interissian D Mom’s Fast food addiction may interfere with child’s education. Protein powder and exercise to combat McDonalds.
Chris Zankou Poulet Zankou C Mother was mediocre student. Could affect son. Don’t discuss past.
Janelle Ross Marshall Ross B Parents in therapy trying to improve marriage. Bring child to marriage therapy.
Harold Oldman Rose Oldman A Child rewarded with fresh fruits after completing homework. Shop Whole Foods to insure organic quality.
Timothy O’Shea Carmel O’Shea B Father shows affection even when son cannot add numbers. Make sure Mom is also affectionate.
Lance Brocklove Paul Brocklove D Mother cannot cook spaghetti, showing possible neglect of child. Watch Food Network.

LA’s Rape Cases.

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The NY Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof writes disturbingly about how rape and prosecuting rapists is still constrained by the slowness of evidence gathering and testing:

“A 43-year-old legal secretary was raped repeatedly in her home in Los Angeles as her son slept in another room. The attacker forced the woman to clean herself in an attempt to destroy the evidence.

Tim Marcia, the detective on the case, thought this meant that the perpetrator was a habitual offender who would strike again. Mr. Marcia rushed the rape kit to the crime lab but was told to expect a delay of more than one year.

So Mr. Marcia personally drove the kit 350 miles to deliver it to the state lab in Sacramento. Even there, the backlog resulted in a four-month delay — but then it produced a “cold hit,” a match in a database of the DNA of previous offenders.

Yet in the months while the rape kit sat on a shelf, the suspect had allegedly struck twice more. Police said he broke into the homes of a pregnant woman and a 17-year-old girl, sexually assaulting each of them.

“The criminal justice system is still ill equipped to deal with rape and not that good at moving rape cases forward,” notes Sarah Tofte, who just wrote a devastating report for Human Rights Watch about the rape-kit backlog. The report found that in Los Angeles County, there were at last count 12,669 rape kits sitting in police storage facilities. More than 450 of these kits had sat around for more than 10 years, and in many cases, the statute of limitations had expired. ”