This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm an ex-mayor. Los Angeles is a magnet for people from all over the world. Some of them run for public office. Inevitably some of them stray from the golden rule and rule for those that have the gold. That's when I go to work. My name is Yorty. I'm a dead pol.
This blog's regular readers probably already recognize the pro's and con's of Villaraigosa's takeover plan, but in case you care to read more, I've posted a summary of my concerns at Mayor Sam's back yard.
Posted by Walter Moore @ 7/07/2006 10:35:00 AM
Founded 10/21/04
24 Comments:
nobody cares about your opinion walter.
And yet, my dogs find me riveting...
Love your rhetoric Walter!
As a voter in LA i recall Mr Villaraigosa campaigning on inserting himself into our schools. It was made public during the campaign, and since he received a HUGE mandate on election day he knows he was sent into office to help fix our schools. So this whole the Mayor should focus on other things is a load of crap, he should focus on what he promised us as voters and helping fix our schools was his top promise.
Next, i don't recall our mayor having an advance degree in public safety either, yet he has retained Chief Bratton and found a way to hire 1,000 more cops for the City of LA. The Mayor's job is to lead and hire talented people able to do the job for the city and our schools.
Like the LA Times and Daily News just opined about recently, the Mayor's Staff is considered "top notch" and i suspect any CEO the Mayor brings in to run our schools will be very qualified.
Also, you make blanket statements about the population within the LAUSD not being a culture that values education, that is a racist statement sur, but why should anyone be surprised by that from you.
Lastly, why do you blog, get a life, get a case and stop annoying all of us.
I disagree with you everyday Walter. And knowing this lets me know i don't need any medication.
Thanks for the validation!
Mayor gets an "A" for hookers and booze
Should we transfer control of the LAUSD's $7.5 billion annual budget, and the future of its 727,000 students, to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa?
This debate is over, Walter -- and Antonio lost.
All he gets is the 36 lousiest schools and wacky shared-responsibility plan.
It's not worth carrying this forward as a straw man for debate: Antonio lost.
Please don't muddy the water by suggesting that there's any possibility that Antonio will have control of LAUSD. Nothing could be further from the truth.
I love to disagree with Walter, but I'm going to have to give him an A for this story.
It's the money. The mayor wants the money. He doesn't give a rats ass about controlling the school. He just wants to control the budget.
He can siphon a million here a million there and soon Mr. Broad won't have to ask for taxpayers to give him breaks on his downtown "developments". The mayor will have it stashed away for him.
Is it true he was inspired by community activist for LAUSD takeover? Rumor spread about activist pitched agenda to then CM Villaraigosa and used in campaign run.
Money
I smell
Much Money
I wanted to be the Mayor. I ran and lost. Now my only goal in life is to attack the Mayor who beat me. Sad.
Hey Walter
Why doesn't Marcos have an American Flag at Academia?
CINDY MONTANEZ AND MARCOS AGUILAR GOOD BUDDIES??? HOW FAR BACK IS THE ALLIANCE?
According to the Great Schools website, 96 percent of the students at Academia are Hispanic, 2 percent are Native American or Alaskan Native, and 2 percent are African American. The enrollment is 253 students. Regarding teachers, 8 percent are fully credentialed, 42 percent are pre-intern or intern, and 42 percent are emergency credentialed or waivered (an emergency credentialed teacher is usually a substitute teacher who is hired full-time due to a lack of fully credentialed teachers). Twenty-five percent of the teachers are in their first year of teaching. The average is 4 years of teaching experience with 2 years in LAUSD.
Academia was founded in 2002 by Marcos Aguilar. Academia is funded by the Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, the National Council of La Raza, the Raza Development Fund, and the California Department of Education. According to World Net Daily, Academia is also backed by the Pasadena City College chapter of MEChA, or Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan. It seems that MEChA is in favor of non-violently reconquering the southwestern United States in order to restore Atzlan, an area which they consider the birthplace of the Aztecs and which others consider fictitious.
My concern is with Aguilar's philosophy and focus, rather than with his teaching methods. I would like to address Aguilar from a common concern for the children and the people. My preference is that these children learn to live productively and happily in the mosaic of American society, and I fear that Academia promotes a counterproductive separatism . Specifically, I will question the teaching of Nahuatl, the objection to "outsider" teachers, and the disagreement with Brown vs. Board of Education.
What does "the house of higher learning for the seeds of our people" mean? Who are our people? The American people? The Hispanic peoples? The Mexican American people? The Mexican people? Perhaps it is only a coincidence, or perhaps the answers can really be found in a MEChA document known as "El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan." Regarding the word academia: "Education must be relative to our people, i.e., history, culture, bilingual education, contributions, etc. Community control of our schools, our teachers, our administrators, our counselors, and our programs." Another document, known as "Philosophy of MEChA," states, "M.E.Ch.A. is committed to ending the cultural tyranny suffered at the hands of institutional and systematic discrimination that holds our Gente captive." Also from the same document: "We recognize that without a strategic use of education, an education that places value on what we value, we will not realize our destiny."
Regarding the word semillas: "We are free and sovereign to determine those tasks which are justly called for by our house, our land, the sweat of our brows, and by our hearts. Aztlan belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops and not to the foreign Europeans. We do not recognize capricious frontiers on the bronze continent." Regarding the word pueblo: "Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlan." Both the above quotations were taken from "El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan."
Aguilar was an Education Committee Coordinator for MEChA from 1989 to 1991. He participated in and was arrested during a 50-day student takeover of the Faculty Lounge at UCLA in 1993. The protesting students caused $50,000 worth of damage which UCLA absorbed. The students were demanding that UCLA offer a Chicano studies major. Aguilar graduated from UCLA in 1994. Again, maybe it is just a coincidence, but Aguilar's philosophy of education seems to reflect MEChA's principles, goals and objectives. The people could be the indigenous peoples of Mexico, parts of America, and other followers who adopt the principles of the Chicano movement; they consider themselves sovereign; they are against assimilation into American society; and they claim the southwestern United States as their territory.
A little more detective work might help to further understand the educational program at Academia Semillas del Pueblo. There is a focus on foreign language learning. Obviously, students must learn English to function in America. If Spanish is their native language, then retention of Spanish will enrich their cultural and academic experiences. If they are also studying Chinese, then this will give them a global advantage in today's troubled economy. But why learn Natuatl? Aguilar states, "They will be able to understand our own ancestral culture and our customs and traditions that are so imbued in the language." Is this not an assumption that all children attending Academia are descendants of the Aztecs? What about the non-Hispanic children?
The Natuatl dialect complex is spoken by approximately 1.5 million people in Mexico. These modern dialects have been influenced by Spanish, and none of them is exactly the same as Classical Natuatl. Most Natuatl speakers in Mexico also speak Spanish or another indigenous language. Natuatl has contributed some words to English: tomato, chocolate, avocado, coyote, chili, tamale, and chiclets. Beyond this interesting fact, what usefulness does Natuatl have for American children? In Mexico, some speakers of the varieties of Natuatl cannot understand each other. Classical Natuatl was used only for administrative issues in the Aztec empire. So, which dialect is being taught at Academia and why?
Villaraigosa wants Academia Semillas to succeed. He then has Marcos aguilar and peoples of El Sereno claim to sovereignty. Guess what happens next? City of Los Angeles can pimp off tourism and Casinos in El Sereno. What better way to replicate other leading gambling $$$$ states. And we can say it all started with one WACKO called Marcos Aguilar. Breed hatred of others and nationalism=claim to sovereignty.
Are you ready LA32 NC?
Ready to be called Reservation El Sereno Council?
At the risk of stating the obvious, the 12:10 post "by Walter Moore" is a sham posting. Attacking the mayor is NOT my only goal. I would also like to lose 10 pounds.
Also, I agree with 11:30 a.m. as to the real goal being control over the multi-billion dollar budget. The bigger the budget, the easier it is to divert funds from public purposes to private cronies.
Another goal of the plan, of course, is to show, in the gubernatorial campaign, that Villaraigosa took action "for the children."
1 p.m. You are a fraud! I am the real Walter Moore. I support animal nuts, dislike Mexicans and would like to lose 20 lbs, not 10 lbs. I've been pigging out lately as I'm still upset over my loss to the beaner.
Both LA Times, Daily News were against Antonio's bill. Yesterday Antonio's bill had a major blow when a number of mayors from other cities and 60,000 students spoke out against it. In today's Daily News they're blasting the UTLA for GIVING MONEY to the parent and other groups supporting Antonio's takeover. Hell, give me $40,000 and I'll say what you want. And we're not dumb enough to think Antonio didn't know about this. Bottom line is there are a lot of people who are against Antonio's takeover. ALL newspapers said the same thing, that Antonio is at every photo op and has spent too much time on the LAUSD issue. They couldn't name but two things he's done in 1 yr.
Senor Villar is nothing more than a pimp for Mexico. We are letting 1M of these illegal, itinerate, illiterate turn CA into third world. The Mexicans are the core, root problem of the failure of the LAUSD and the bankrupting of CA.
We all know this!!!!!!!!!
Get off your asses in NOV and vote them out! Don't ever let it happen again. Get rid of the mexican mafia and CA will be fine
Don't hire the illegals... stop shopping where they work...use some common sense. Stop the benefits. Stop the anchor babies.
You know the drill!!! Do something about it! They have no rights whatsoever!!!!!!!! They are criminals!!!!!!!
We are Americans....they are not!
English only!!! What the fuck is all the bilingual shit?
Don't let them scream "Civil Rights"!!!! They have no rights!!!
Blacks are Americans. Mexicans are not Americans. Don't let them " shit!!!!!!!!!!!
We didn't cross the border the border crossed us...
But now seriously...
Get a GRIP. In one generation Mexicans like Europeans before them fully assimilate. They are very much American and by the way asshole, pay a lot in taxes.
Mayor's staff is "top notch"? Who are you kidding??? Have any of you ever tried to get someone to return a call?
But, yes, when it comes to assisting with publicity for their boss, yes, they do this rather well....
Antonio is using his "top notch" staff to do work on the LAUSD issue. Is that not against ethic violations? When is this bill going to be voted on up on the hill?
I would like to hear from one person who had a good relationship with Villaraigosa when he was a councilmember. Name the people on the staff you considered "top notch". Then ask where those top notch people are today. I can't find them. They've all been replaced by Riordan robots. I had a good relationship with him when he was councilmember. I don't know what happened.
Good term, "Riordan robots." Pretty much on target. Amongst the worst, virtually incompetent, is Jaime de la Vega...
Boycott every where Mexicans work? You better pack up and head for North Dakota you stupid, racist asshole!
Mayor Villar can't keep LA Animal Services BowWow Boks in line.
How in the hell can he revitalize LAUSD? Boks is still VERY MUCH INVOLVED WITH "HOOTERS FOR NEUTERS" campaign! What's the mayor going to call his LAUSD takeover -- "Hooters For Tutors"????????
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