This school year’s opening has been one of the worst in history for school staffs. Not since the 1994 Northridge earthquake has the normal, day-to-day, operation of the school been so challenged. That natural disaster brought school closures, damaged buildings, power outages, loss of water, broken equipment, high student and staff absences and general turmoil throughout most of the LAUSD. But the MiSiS crisis has been far worse, in that it was not caused by forces beyond our control, like Mother Nature, but by our own District.