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California School Districts lay off teachers in order to pressure the state to restore funds cut from school budgets, but then they always hire the teachers back, right? Yes, in most districts. But not in San Diego Unified School District.
Budget games have harmed several teachers at SDUSD's Lincoln High School, but Guillermo Gomez is one teacher whose students are not suffering along with him.
He is working as a long-term substitute at 9th-Grade Center for Social Justice, at a big cut in pay. What's up with that, Superintendent Terry Grier? Pay the man, for heaven's sake.
In April 2008, Voice of San Diego wrote about Mr. Gomez, asking, "How do you lay off a teacher of the year?"
Social activist is big on possibilities
By Chris Moran
San Diego Union Tribune STAFF WRITER
October 12, 2005
...His parents fled El Salvador 22 years ago, fearful their son would be conscripted to fight in the country's civil war.
They brought him to Los Angeles without knowing English, but they had emphasized reading at home, so Gómez arrived with a solid grasp of his first language, Spanish.
Bilingual education helped him master his subjects while he was learning English, Gómez said.
The teachers who helped him most, he said, weren't those who stressed subject matter, he said. He doesn't play piano or speak French, yet his piano and French teachers were the most influential ones he had in high school because they talked with him, encouraging him to attend college...
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