DR. ROCHA NEEDS TO RESIGN
The meeting last night between Bob Sprague and Dr Mateo ( Dr Rocha refuses to meet with the students) shows the mistakes made by the administration at WLAC. They showed fully their lack of knowledge of the Aviation maintenance program at the school that they administer . Bob Sprague denies the truth that the demand for aviation mechanics with a license will continue for 10 years. If he would have only done a little research on labor statistics he would not have sounded so incredibly naive. Dr Mateo does not even know the title of program that she is the Dean of!! At this point there is only one option ; Dr Rocha , Dr Mateo , Bob Sprague and Scott Feinerman should resign. These individuals have shown that they do not have the ability to manage WLAC aviation.
The demands are the same - reinstate summer classes and make a full commitment to the morning and evening program.
Sony pictures and Hollywood CPR supporters will be informed of their involvement in the devastation of a much need educational resource and its negative impact on the students. All local politicians will also be informed of the actions by DR. ROCHA ,LACCD and WLAC administration in the previous year to misinform the students and seriously undermine a very powerful educational resource.
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I was at that meeting between Sprague, Mateo and the Aviation dept. faculty and students. The sad thing is that the supposed chair and supporter of our program, Sott Feinerman is a yes man who has gone out of his way to find and give Mateo and Sprague information that will assist them in dismantling the Aviation program. Sprague accidentially let the cat out of the bag (oops, he wasn't suppposed to) that Feinerman along with Mateo together visited a similar program in San Diego. There they found facts that supported their self-serving opinions that demand for aviation technicians is dying. Why didn't they go to the several aviation programs that are within a twenty mile radius of West LA? Why did they drive over 100 miles to a different city when they could have gone nearby? I'll tell you why ...they went to San Diego because that aviation program is not in a convenient location and it also is in a completely different and less vigorous aviation area. They went to San Diego to find facts that support their concocted and misleading figures indicating a lack of interest in aviation and aerospace education that would back their decision to remove support for the West LA program. This was pointed out to them by our avionics instructor. He indicated this was a completely different scenario, market and demographic area. ...They had no reply to his comment. In fact, they had no answers to anyone's questions as to why they are dismantling classes when we have proven that there is a HUGE demand for these classes by students and the industry in general.
So it's apparent that what Feinerman is doing is waiting out his career until he can retire soon and being a brown nosing yes man for Mateo and Sprague is what'll assure him a rosy future in easy employment at West. He's telling the students that he's on our side and doing all he can to pacify us while he's fucking us by aiding and abetting those who will dismantle this program.
It became apparent at the meeting that Sprague and Mateo came to investigate what they are up against and see if their guns are bigger than ours. They won. When we accuse them of secret agendas and argue with them as to how much we want the day programs and accuse them outright of lying it becomes easy for them to dismiss us because they can simply deny accusations and we are left with no recourse.
There is no "public awareness" outside of our small group that actually knows how this is playing out and they know that. Our next move is to shine a light that will make them shrink back in fear of exposure. We need to contact the LA WEEKLY, Los Angeles Times, an investigative news reporter for the local television station as well as media that has in interest in aviation such as GA News, Aviation and Space Weekly etc, etc. Instead of giving the media a sad story, we need to make it and interesting inspiring sad story. Also, instead of dropping a situation on the doorstep of some investigative reporter or media reporter what WILL work is doing our homework and detailing and building a story that is ready to go and has a human element (single mothers, biking to school students, etc). If we develop our story as a package with a punch, the media will love it as they don't have to do much more than refine it and deliver it. Just think what it would do if we are on the 6 o'clock news and Sprague, Mateo, Feinerman and Rocha are named as dismantlers of a successful program helping regular folks in difficult economic times.
SO GET TO WORK!! WRITE, CONTACT AND COLLABORATE AND WE CAN MAKE THEM RUN FROM THE LIGHT!
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