Like people @ LAUSD & UTLA on the government tab, pretending to be elite, private, successful people. UTLA employees get paid by mandatory contributions from teachers, etc. Teachers are paid by the county. But the ones who like to play elite, successful & "private" but are nonetheless simply "playing" that game are not the modestly paid teachers but the ones in the corporate headquarters (if you can call it that). Roy Romer, former LAUSD superintendent, made a huge mistake in moving the LAUSD staff from the humble setting on Grand to the skyrise on Beaudry because it had the effect of going quickly to the heads of the workers that they were "elite' & "successful" simply by virtue of being in a skyrise, like dressing people up in fancy suits with no place to go or without knowing what to do or how things work. A lot of the employees may not even have an undergraduate degree, but Romer thought it was important for the morale of the workers at the "headquarters" to feel important & successful. Oh boy, do they ever feel successful, so much so that they definitely think they are special. Yes, they are special. Special ed. Even the people in suits at the headquarters. A lot of them have never been in the classroom (as teachers), or if they have, they did the bare minimum of required years in the classroom before bailing out to an "administrative" job, yearning to be in the skyrise on Beaudry and feel successful & important. Even Diane & Irma at the sub unit, mere phone answerers with associate degrees (?) Think they are special...so special they're more important than the people in the classroom, for whom education was supposed to be ALL ABOUT, right ? In fact, the LAUSD is just a huge government tab with a lot of waste and excess, all at the expense of taxpayers, so that people NOT even in the classroom can feel special, and play important, more important than the teachers. Romer made some tragic mistakes in thinking you can simply dress people up in a nice big building and this will make them successful. If they didn't stick with the program in the first place...I.e. didn't stay in school for the long run & truly learn the way things are based on all the different pieces of academia input (history, English, science, religion, math, etc) they are like retarded (I.e. special) persons all dressed up with nowhere to go. Its the fatal flaw of social promotion. We end up with retarded leaders in fancy suits playing successful & important, yet they still don't truly "get it" and are leading us to destruction. My only hope at this point is Jesus Christ. I have NO HOPE in our public sector, especially LAUSD & UTLA, and probably not PERB (nor DFEH or EEOC) nor the courts either. All the public sector workers eventually become part of the same corrupt "group think" & are ALL on the same road to destruction, being told by the blind leaders that they are special & important & even givng them a skyrise to play in to prove it. And if you believe it, I have some swampland to sell you as well.