Government endorsed religious teachings in El Sereno??
Not being one to incite, instigate, or rile up the "powers that be", but are tax dollars being use to endorse a specific form of religious expression in Public Education?One can surmise that by viewing this photograph and reading the caption attached that appeared in the Eastern Group Publications story on the Grand Opening of the new El Sereno Constituent Center.
Much has been written here and elsewhere in the bloggersphere regarding the Academia Semillas del Pueblo Charter School and its Co-Principals Marco Aguilar and Minnie Ferguson.
While many were focus on the KABC Doug Mcintyre/Sandy Well episode and on the thoughts of Marcos Aguilar, under the radar were the religious undertones and ceremonies that dominate the teachings at the Charter School on Huntington Drive.
For those who have encounter students and staff of Academia at community events, blessings, chants and dances are the norm in the interaction with Academia. After all, it was this type of demeanor that cause former Los Angeles Times Education writer Bob Sipchen to opine that the aura of Academia was "Kooky and Cultlike".
If one wants to mix religion and education, then you are likely going to pay tuition in the range of five figures to get the quality of a Loyola, John Bosco, Crespi or Sacred Heart education without the help of your taxes you already payed.
Past efforts to help families with "vouchers" that would offset tuition costs at religious and non-religious private schools in California have met with failure. Teacher unions and their ACLU allies are "Comrades" regarding keeping education "public" and free of religious overtones.
But why the silence in the case of Academia Semillas del Pueblo??
Your thoughts.............
Labels: Academia Semillas del Pueblo, Marcos Aguilar, vouchers
Posted by Red Spot in CD 14 @ 5/18/2008 10:46:00 AM
23 Comments:
They're also the worst-performing school in the district -- they do this tax-payer funded Mayan religious "hocus-pocus" at the expense of what they see as "culturally antagonistic values" like the Three R's, especially anything to do with the English language or culture, or American culture and history in general -- which they twist into the lies of Aztlan.
I've met these kids and heard them parrot what they've learned, the "we were here first and you're occupying our land, you don't know your own history, you racist gringo!" Well, they lost that terrority over 150 years ago, and even then, it was owned by a small group of rich oligarchs of Spanish origin with their priests -- whose missions are a symbol of that power and a deliberate condemntation of this MeCHa culture. Their Catholic missions, religions and Spanish- influenced culture explicitly were intended to overturn THIS sort of "primitive Indian peasant" culture.
The Spanish-Catholic domination and building programs were achieved by enslaving the American Indians, who then caught diseases and died in large numbers, and it was them whose land was taken, and who are the "real" native Americans, if it comes to that. But even they're not suggesting America be ruled by the Indian reservations. Only this handful of wackos, this Aguilar and his white-liberal-guilt wacko Comrade are filling the kids with this garbage at our expense. And setting them up for a lifetime of failure, other than offering bodies for marches like May 1st.
Who's that older guy, second row right, with the two bowls? Looks like a peasant straight out of a Guatemalan village.
If this sort of thing happened once in a while I could see it, but it's the tone of the school. And they never allow other cultures their day, they make them unwelcome in fact, this is clearly a Mexican/ Central American ONLY school.
I'm posting this one here on the Eastside too, at the Autry Center on May 27th, Zocalo public forum at the Autry Center (your fave place) re: are ballot initiatives being used as unfair competition? Trying to get voters to oppose H-D on traffic issues, clever ploy, worked for Do It before in Glendale.
Ties into front-page LAT Opinion story on Home Depot vs. Do It Stores, in Thousand Oaks, see V D's post for full details, since thsi will inerest the S-T folks waging a sim. battle.
Here is the "Zocalo" info.
Zócalo at Autry National Center
Tuesday, May 27, 7:30 pm at Autry National Center
Is Business Abusing the Ballot?
Moderated by Joe Mathews, Irvine Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation
Hotels attempt to use a referendum to block another hotel's plans in Beverly Hills. A mall takes its argument against a competitor's mall to the voters in Glendale. The owner of a local chain of hardware stores uses a ballot initiative to prevent Home Depot from opening a new store on his turf in Thousand Oaks. California businesses are increasingly taking their disputes with cities, labor and especially each other to municipal ballots in the form of initiatives and referenda. As a result, voters, not the market, are forced to pick business winners and losers and decide complex development, planning and zoning questions that are supposed to be handled by city governments. A panel of political and government leaders who have been involved in such ballot fights—including political consultants Rob Stutzman and Harvey Englander, Anaheim city councilwoman Lorri Galloway, and labor strategist and advocate Madeline Janis—discuss the trend and its costs. Why are more of these disputes ending up on the ballot? Do these measures slow growth or add to the cost of doing business in California? Are large businesses able to buy policy with expensive ballot campaigns? What other forces—poor municipal finances, weak financing, the interests of lawyers and political consultants--may be contributing to these fights?
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Tax payers and LEGAL residents need to protest to the electeds about this school. Our kids can't even utter a word of religion their schools so why is this school allowed to do it? many of the students are illegal as their parents. We know Huizar is the council person but who is the Senator, Congress person of the area where the school is. I heard someone was going to start an online petition and send to Washington to stop this type of crap.
online petiition good idea, RS, why not post one with a link and have all this griping be put to good use?
And isn't this the school sending a bunch of kids to CHINA to learn Chinese language and culture, too? The teachers who come here from China think that program's a joke, none of the barrio kids even listen, but the westside and valley kids don't even have basic computers or sports or TA;s unless parents raise the money privately, and that's upto elem., middle and highschools are all bused in from east and s l a, these kids. So the prices RS is saying are necessary and twices that, private schools are a necessity not an option.
Oh yeah, God forbid these kids go to China to learn language and culture. Living in the largest city on the Pacific Rim, why should LA kids study Chinese language and culture? So they can aspire to being a desk jockey in City Hall?
The property where Academias Pueblos is located is OWNED LOCK STOCK AND BARREL BY LA RAZA DEVELOPMENT CORP.! Marcus Aguilar and his wife, Minnie Ferguson, are listed as the owners of this property on the Grand Deed!!!!
WHY IS THIS RAZA SCHOOL EVEN A PART OF LAUSD??? Do the taxpayers know that their money is supporting this Aztec school???
WAKE UP...EVERYONE!
May Sam - "Not being one to incite, instigate, or rile up the "powers that be - this is what makes you beautiful as the morning rain.
Rain would be beautiful right now.
The school is within the 24th Senate District - Gloria Romero and the 45th Assembly District - Kevin de Leon.
Walter Moore...if you're reading this, please do a title search on LaRaza Development Corp. I came up with the property on Huntington Drive owned by LaRaza Development Corp. thru a title search, but I'm sure you can do a more thorough search and trace more subsidiaries of LaRaza! They probably have several shell corporations.
The Federal Government is funding LaRaza with taxpayer money and all the while they are buying up property to build their schools, which are also funded by taxpayers.
What other scams are they involved in? It bears a serious investigation!
Marcus Agular is not only the principal of the school...he is the owner of the property!
We are funding our own demise!
5:21 Mecha Moron:
So your MeCHA school is wasting our money every chance it gets -- first you have to be literate in YOUR OWN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE, MORON, BEFORE YOU CAN LEARN ANOTHER. These pathetic kids and Guatemalan bowl bangers can't speak or write English, or know basic math which isn't even culture-specific, but they're using our tax dollars to get free trips to China on the hope that the stupidest idiots in the entire LAUSD are going to become "Chinese attaches."
Shove it up your ignorant MeCHA butts, you're too stupid to live.
In China and Japan, students all want to learn eNGLEESH, the international common language, but your MeCHA fools full of hate and bile and Reconquista fantasies (these Indian peasants were even more despised by the actual Conquistadors, who didn't see them fit to get a basic education, any more than animals).
So we've got Chinese who know English a lot more than the peasant MeCHAs, they can come here and become their own translators -- as can Chinese kids growing up here.
None of these MeCHA pathetic, brainwashed kids have the capacity to learn Chinese language and culture, which is more difficult than English, and as noted, Chinese teachers who come here wonder why they're wasting their time with them. TO CHINESE: this is called TAXPAYER FRAUD AND UNEDUCATION IN THE NAME OF MECHA stupidity.
Pathetic MeCHas, ignorance upon stupidity upon spite upon failure....
The Voice needs to get to the bottom of this.
Did anyone see Kevin De Leon salivating all over McCourt's wife when they were in City Hall for their Dodgers presentation -- they're putting a ton more money into the place, wise or not.
McCourt had to pry DeLeon off his wife and literally get between them -- she's really hot for her age, but it was so obvious De Leon fantasizing he'll bed this cougar (she's a grandmother) and figure out how to leech her.zxsz
7:34 #1: That's one reason these MeCHAs want to overrun our country illegally but, at the same time, deny Chinese, Indians and others visas to come here legally to work, because they know they can't compete against them in any sort of free marketplace, even when it comes to English which we're teaching them to learn, to no avail. They can't even read and write literate Spanish, just peasant. I've met and interacted via web with so many Chinese youths who put these peasant kids to shame DESPITE the fact that they've had to learn English on their own, it's only available in school to a few.
These people come here illiterate and inable to learn, not having the mental capacity or training from generations of being peasants and manual grunts and bowl-bangers and believing those dumb customs take the place of real education. But demand we train them from the ground up, denying qualified people who already know English and have educations from coming here and contributing right off the bat. This loss to
Can one be Mechista and Catholic at the same time? Given the bloodshed between the natives and European nations/Catholic leaders a few centuries ago?
or is being both a split personality?
Houston Chrinical, 5/18, "Immigrants are fitting in more quickly...Bit Mexicans lag behind others."
www.chron.com
Even Cubans and Filipinos are doing well, but Mexicans, Nicaraguans and Brazilians are among the worst. (Some in Brazil are educated but we get the dregs from there and Nicaragua, Salvador, etc. -- often they're criminals already, too, and are sent here to send money home to their national drug/crime cartels.)
7:51, depends on which culture you ID with most.
I've been to places like Chichi in Guatemala, where the Mayan peasants are heavy into Catholic culture and the church, but a very visual, bloody manifestation that incorporates their traditional bloody Mayan and other native Indian Mexican cultures. The people have their own colorful outfits and traditional Indian festivals and traditions, too.
Like they drag around giant, bloodied images of Christ, some still make animal sacrifices (which are supposed to be symbolic in Christianity), it's a fusion.
go to www.fulldisclosure.net, website of Ch. 36/ City Channel "Full Disclosure" program, hosted by nice little old lady Leslie Dutton, interviewing the 2 main challengers to DA Steve Cooley.
Asst. DA Steve Ipsen is Pres. of the Assos. of Asst. DA's, works for Cooley, sounds very credible. Other guy is Albert Robles, not an attorney but corroborates what Ipsen says.
Including: Cooley won't touch the illegal criminals issue or listen to the Shaws: gives credence to his allegations.
Cooley won't do a thing to ID illegals in the jails, even though he has hundreds of investigators on staff who could do the job, and a thousand lawyers who not only could but many are itching to.
Instead, Cooley uses investigators as goons to investigate, harass and intimidate his own DA's, much like "in a Third World Country." Also uses them as chauffeurs and bodyguards and personal assistants, so he can go to parties and drink.
His main contributors are criminal attorneys who his staff prosecutors have to go against, like those who represent the officials in Bell, Cudahy, etc. who are paid by the Mexican Mafia and Drug Cartels.
Refused to touch Catholic pedophiles and Belmont school toxic waste scandal for same reason, his interview in Today's Times whitewash b.s.
He's a lot worse, more corrupt than anything he accused Gil Garcetti of.
Got himself a huge raise at this time of budget crisis just for ego, to be highest paid public attorney other than Country's ATty. General.
WYY was this approved, no questions? Allegedly, he's had a hands-off policy when it comes to the Supes whom he reports to, in exchange for vice versa.
See RonKayeLA.com for a detailed comment, AND go to www.fulldisclousre.net to give your opinion, demand the Times dig deeper.
You are such a sad-dumb-racist bunch. WE are the majority and WE are going to train the brightest and strongest leaders in the land. This is not your grandfather's world of white-male-dominace. Get over it. Losers.
A Note to Anthony Manzano:
You are a disgrace to your race.
Come out of your anonymous closet and show your face, coward.
Honoring "Thanksgiving" is a religious act.
Celebrating "Christmas" is a religious act.
Raising the American Flag--as the US Empire slaughters innocents for oil overseas--is a religious act ( and let's not even get into the colonizing "Pledge of Allegiance").
Forcing kids to consider George W. Bush their "leader" is a religious act--one of dumb, blind faith.
Blessing a government building on the day of its groundbreaking in the traditional ways of the Native Peoples of Anahuac is an act of forgiveness.
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