Getting Around Academia's Censorship
Following the attack on newsman Sandy Wells at the Academia Semillas del Pueblo, and the resultant scrunity from the news media on the controversial charter school, the school pulled down its website which had detailed information on the school's curriculum, philosophy, etc.Thanks to the Internet Wayback Machine, past versions of the site have been preserved, going back to 2001. Here is a way to see what the school was saying, before they tried to cover it up.
If you're curious, click here for a list and then click on the dated link for any page you wish to read. Its not all there, but you will see information that the school has since deleted.
Regardless of what one thinks of the school, that data is public record. Their website was paid for by taxpayers, and you have a right to see what the school has been publishing. Thanks to the Internet, you have the opportunity to read what they have been posting, and then draw your own conclusions.
Government - and La Academia is part of the government, it is not a private institution - has an obligation to be transparent. And a free press has the responsibility to bring you that information. No matter what the government officials at La Academia want you to know, you have a right to know what has been going on.
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 6/09/2006 12:30:00 AM
21 Comments:
Long live la escuelita at Farmdale Elementary.
Great staff starting with its visionary leader, Teresita Saracho de Palma.
The parents are empowered to the degree that no strange reporter would be allowed to film children without proper authorization.
Pls don't play politics with the kids.
Thanks for the ethics lesson, you Hertzberg groupie.
We would never let an unidentified reporter in our recreational facility for safety of our children. KABC FM ought to be ashamed of themselves...although most of the time its not about the kids that makes news.
11:22
"The parents are empowered to the degree that no strange reporter would be allowed to film children without proper authorization."
"Strange reporter"? As opposed to a "familiar reporter"?
Are parents "empowered" to cause bodily harm to reporters?
"proper authorization"?
TV crews are routinely sent into schools in LA. They meet with an Administration and get a verbal ok. If they come into a classroom, the Administrator will, out of courtesy, run it by the teacher.
The sidewalk is public property and reporters (or others) are free to speak with whom they choose.
See the Academia website to see an example of playing politics with kids. Using tax dollars no less.
AT MY SCHOOL WE WOULD NEVER BEAT AN INNOCENT PERSON. IF WE WERE CONCERNED ABOUT CHILDREN AND THEIR PSYCHE, WHY BEAT UP A GUY IN FRONT OF CHILDREN. DUH!!!!!
This school is doing more damage to the minds of these kids. The reporter is credible unlike the principal Aguilar. The school has nothing but a bunch of illegals getting a free racist education on our tax dollar. I'm glad the state is investigating. Speak English, apply for citizenship and stop taking free services. Why do they always have to use RACE? As long as they brainwash these kids they might as well stay in their own community cause that crap doesn't fly in the real world or the rest of LA.
The Cesspool del Pueblo people haven't said much against people driving on the sidewalk in front of the school while it's in session, have they? I wonder why.
I've been listening to KABC for about a year now and Sandy Wells is easily the mellowest and most polite person on their entire on-air staff. He's the perfect target for some retard skinhead Mexican gang member.
Doug McIntyre said he's expecting some "news" next week on the story. Let's hope the brown 'n' proud skinhead is given some time to learn Nahuatl in prison. At least let us see his mug pasted all over the internet.
"The Cesspool del Pueblo people haven't said much against people driving on the sidewalk in front of the school while it's in session, have they? I wonder why."
ASK JENNIFER SOLIS. HER NEW FRIENDS AND NEW INFLUENCES SHOULD KNOW WHY.
MAKING FRIENDS AT WHAT COST JENNIFER? ETHICS?
You teach kids the facts about racist America, and you call it brainwashing. It's amazing what all these white folk fear. Unless you've ever experienced racism, you don't know what you are talking about. I grew up in an inner city neighborhood where I was taught to hold my hands out whenever I got pulled over by the police. This was at five years old, even before I was taught how to put my hands out to catch a baseball. Since then, I've been pulled over by the cops 18 times in my life - and I've never been to jail. Is this brainwashing? No, it is life skills for Mexicans in this country. And I am fourth generation American, my dad received the purple heart in Korea.
McIntyre and you white poster's hate mongering is disgusting. Where's your purple heart McIntyre or Mayor Sam? Mexicans are the most decorated ethnic group in the military. Just look at the casualty lists from Iraq. And you dare question our loyalty because we want to teach our kids a little about their unique and glorious heritage. Shame on you.
Partyanimal, you're a moron. Skinheads are a term for white racists. Don't apply that term to us. If you knew anyhting, you would know that indigenous people value their long hair.
Facts are facts and history backs up what Aguilar has been saying all along. The fact that you can't change history must be eating you up alive. Racism is part of this country's history. And you know the saying, if we don't teach history, we are destined to repeat it. But since we Mexicans are quickly becoming the majority, it would behoove you white folk to let us teach our kids about racism - who will be the minority in the future? I'm sure you would want your offspring to be protected. Your offspring of wiggers that is - oops, it's already starting.
Mayor Sam, you conveniently failed to mention why the school took down the site, which they explain on their NEW site:
"Due to the unsanctioned use of the images of our students; our previous web site has been temporarily taken down in order to ensure the students’ safety and to prevent further misuse. We hope you enjoy our new web site."
They "censored" (your inflammatory word) the site the very same day they had a bomb threat called in.
Makes perfect sense to me! Should make sense to anyone who's first concern is for the safety of children. And, unless they have a full-time Webmaster just sitting around, taking the whole thing down was probably the only safe, quick solution.
Why not present both sides? (Sometimes it IS just a cigar!)
Face it folks, the school IS winning the PR war now, since most of KABC's claims are easily refuted with public records.
Send the Minutemen back to the border, East L.A. is going to be JUST fine.
"For the safety of the children" has become the justification for violence against those that would dare to question what the curriculum is at that school and for the ensuing cover-up.
Anyone who had seen the website could figure out why it was taken down.The website gave a glimpse of the philosophy that guides that school. Did you read the story on the website about how the eagle learned to fly? The moral was: ASSOCIATE WITH YOUR OWN KIND!
Can't have that at an "inclusive" public charter school. No, no, no.
It's not a "beating" if the person receiving the blows is white.
That's called re-education.
Look it up in your Maoist/Leninist-English Dictionary.
802 - You are absolutely right.
I have seen this before. Someone caught doing something wrong finds some highly charged, emotional reason to turn the focus away from the main issue.
Its called a red herring.
IF the intent was to remove just the pictures, that could have been done very easily - and the text could have stayed.
Just an excuse. The same as why they tackled Sandy Wells because they thought he was a pedophile. Please.
We see through the lies.
SURE -- big cover-up... they had every major media on campus last week, the old Website can easily be reviewed by anyone that knows how to click "cached" on a Yahoo search engine, and all of the school's charter materials (which LAUSD says they're abiding by) are public record.
The school's founders have visited nearly every neighborhood council in the Northeast and East L.A. explaining their mission and seeking and gaining support and endorsements. They've been more visible and open about their mission than just about any institution in the area. What's ironic, if that now the rabid conservatives on the attack are being "played" by liberal tree-hugging nut jobs who are pissed at the concept of this school using a few acres of bare parkland to build a school. (How's it feel to be led around by the nose, by the far left??) McIntyre and KABC doing the bidding of the radical left who'd rather see kids rot in overcrowded classrooms that clear a few weeds from some empty lots next to a parkland... worshipping at the altar of open space.
Someone posted the other day a dozen different distortions and rapid-fire story changes from KABC trying to cover for their reporter (after police didn't press charges on the parent who came after him) ... but it's the charter school that's telling the "BIG LIE.'
But despite all that, it's good to see that Mayor Sam has already pronouced judgement... "caught doing something wrong" he says (which would be what? -- abiding by their charter?)
If that's the case, put LAUSD on trial. They approved the charter now being followed.
Yeah, good thing they "censored" that racist, separatist Web Site. My God, can you imagine what would happen to America (let ALONE talk radio) if this key element of their philosophy got around -- why it sounds goddamn "christian":
"...live in peace among the people; respect and honor everyone, do not offend them, always be calm, let others say of you what they may, end up however you may – do not claim vengeance."
(Good thing for KABC's ratings this past week that the parent who jumped their reporter was raised in REGULAR American schools, like the rest of us, or their petty story would have died on day 2).
Other red herrings - generated by the El Sereno Charter School crowd- taken from the standard "I am the victim not the perpetrator playbook used regularly in Mexico"
- Most if not all the bomb threats were probably called in by his associates of Marcos Aguilar to garner sympathy from the public and Mayor Villarbabosa to portray Marcos as a victim.
- Jennifer Solis is spinning big time over Zarqawi's death to distract the ire of the public over the controversy of the attempted rub out of Sandy Wells
P.S.
- How does a principal and schrool teacher afford homes in Alhambra and Ft. Washington on "modest salaries" at special interest charter school they founded?
3:56 AM
congratulations on knowing the background of individuals. You failed to mention conveniently to us another key Marcos Aguilar Philosophy:
"We don't necessarily want to go to White schools. What we want to do is teach ourselves, teach our children the way we have of teaching. We don't want to drink from a White water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don't need a White water fountain. So the whole issue of segregation and the whole issue of the Civil Rights Movement is all within the box of White culture and White supremacy. We should not still be fighting for what they have. We are not interested in what they have because we have so much more and because the world is so much larger. And ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction. And so it isn't about an argument of joining neo liberalism, it's about us being able, as human beings, to surpass the barrier."
12:42 PM
Marcos Aguilar is the Jimmie Swaggart of Chicano politics in Northeast Los Angeles. He is more of threat than the Villaragosa to the long term stability of LA.
It is rotten shame how many young minds he is ruining permanently with a thinly disguised gospel of hate. What is with Chicanos who like lemmings follow false prophets like Marcos Agulilar whose is just a slicker and more slimey reincarnation of Louis Farrakhan.
So many Chicanos fall to the victim mentality "white is not right prejudice " over the issue of skin color. Why do legal immigrants with the same or darker skin color like East Indians, Persians, Arabs, and Central Americans succeed while these Chicanos don't?
These other immigrants don't demand charter schools that teach glories of past empires of ancient Pharoes, Moguls, Hammurabi, Xerxes, Chaldeans, Cuscatlan (Salvadoran) and rarely fly the flag in demonstrations over immigrant rights. Instead these other immigrants want to be American and readily intermarry with gringos.
Learning English is not a difficult as Chicanos claim. A friend of mine from India came to America after high school and watched Sesame Street and Mr. Rodgers and acquired enough English fluency in six months, and graduated with honors in chemical engineering 3 years later, as the second woman to graduate from a very prestigious engineering school in 60 years. She had no English education prior to immigrating to United States and is a very successful stock broker in NYC after 10 years in the chemical industry.
Another friend, an engineer from Iraq, was drafted into the US Army within weeks of receiving his green card, after fleeing new Saddam Regime and upon finishing his military obligation went to college in New England.
He served in the 82nd Airborne and today makes more than 200 thousand dollars a year as an engineering professional. He learned his English an the military and if he you spoke to him on the phone, you swear he was a native from Queens.
The key to success in Ameria is not worrying about what skin color your parents gave you, but succeeding regardless of the circumstances. These other cultures retain ethinic identidy but are proud Americans.
Why are Chicanos and Mexicans in general so bigotted against non Mexicans especially blacks? This racial hatred that some Mexicans have for those who don't speak their corrupt Spanish or look and act like them handicaps them in the United States?
Why do Central Americans don't have the psychological hang up on skin color and ethinicity like most other Americans. Compare the Mexican and Costa Rican World Cup eams. There is not a single black on starters of the Mexican squad - but look at the Costa Ricans - at least 9 blackcs and many immigrants from Nicaragua.
This inbred racial bigotry of some Chicanos and Mexicans towards non Mexicans only handicaps there ability to succeed in a multi-cultural society like the United States.
Its time for a wake-up call in the Mexican immigrant commuity and examine why some fail and other succeed in the American culture. Disciples of Marcus Aguilar and Minnie Fergusson are destined to failure.
How do you say in Spanish "Fellow Traveler" ?
Imodium amigo?
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