I like the Green Dot program a lot. Most minority students I’ve met over on the East Coast who are from South Central or Inglewood went to one of the Animo groups (In September, two weeks into the new school year, I was walking across Harvard Yard and saw a group of minority students near the John Harvard statue. I was wearing my Dodgers cap, they saw it, and called me out on it. I came over and asked them where they were from, and they were from an Animo high school). Back to the points. If it is proving to work at certain schools, why not apply it to similar schools?

Sometimes I feel that the LAUSD should be broken, but when I think of the differences in funding, I don’t see it as a viable option.

UTLA gets on my nerves. It’s one of the unions that has deviated too much from what it was intended to do and has now become the very thing it opposes. It’s too bureaucratic, silly. In high school, I was pretty close to a few teachers, and some let me know what they thought of the union. Not very favorable, per se.