Posted on 06/26/2008 8:25:06 PM PDT by buwaya
(06-26) 19:20 PDT San Francisco -- San Francisco public high schools will no longer award physical education credit to students enrolled in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps, the Board of Education voted today in a hastily scheduled meeting.
The 4-to-1 vote will likely cripple the 90-year-old military education program that serves 1,200 students because most use it to satisfy their p.e. requirement.
"If students really love the program, they'll take it anyway," said board president Mark Sanchez, who has led opposition to JROTC because of its ties to the military.
Gregory Wing, who will be a sophomore at Lowell next semester, said he loves JROTC, but the board's vote "messes everything up for incoming freshmen and sophomores" who have no room in their schedules for the required p.e. and for JROTC.
"It's completely unfair," he said. "What am I going to do for credit?"
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JROTC has been on death row in San Francisco since 2006, when the board voted to eliminate the military program. But the board had since agreed to let it continue through spring 2009.
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Meanwhile, JROTC supporters say they haven't given up trying to save their program. Johnny Wang, spokesman for Choice for Students, said that by Sunday the group of parents and others who want to keep JROTC will have collected the 7,200 signatures they need to place a nonbinding measure on the November ballot intended to show support for the program.
"Eliminating p.e. credit is their way of neutralizing JROTC," Wang said of the board. "But we're in this for a bigger fight."
But board President Sanchez said the district will eventually offer an alternative to JROTC within the ethnic studies program.
"There will be opportunities for leadership," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
"Ethnic studies program" my a**.
Whats needed is a powerful national reaction. This needs to be an election issue. The narrative is ideal - patriotic immigrant kids (JROTC is very popular with Asian kids) oppressed by an out-of-control Obama-loving liberal establishment.
As long as my son has enough advance warning, if the terrorists are going to hit us again, let it be San Francisco.
I keep trying to remind myself...the reason why we haven’t surrounded San Francisco and Berkeley with 20 FT tall razor wire fencing and re-designated it as ‘hostile enemy territory’ is what, exactly?
I feel sorry for the great kids who won’t be exposed to this tremendous opportunity as a result of all this.
That's an interesting choice of words for a headline...
Almost all of SF’s high school students are illegal aliens who can't qualify as officers anyway.
Damn the lib a**es in SF! My brother-in-law was a leader in JROTC at Lowell High in SF, graduated with honors. JROTC is extremely popular with kids in San Francisco, and they work very hard in their activities. All physically fit, and they score high academically. Isn’t that supposed to be the objective? The libs want fat stupid sheep!
That is not true, you halfwit.
SF’s best students are LEGAL Asian immigrants, and they are just plain brilliant and patriotic citizens. Much smarter than you are, and of much finer character, for certain.
what saddens me is that these policies are doomed to failure, as liberal policies always are, but the time frame to set things straight is on the order of generations. We can only sit numbly by and watch, like a slow motion train wreck. After it’s over, we’ll have to go in and pick up the pieces. So sad...
...the precedent(s) of Sodom and Gomorrah??? And besides, electric fences like you'd keep in your yard to train your dog are more entertaining anyway.
Well, thank you very much for your helpful attitude, but I happen to live here, along with many hundreds of thousands who don’t deserve your contempt.
Why razor wire? Surround it with an army and take it back! Give the wackos and seditionists five days to to leave the country and then sterilize the streets with Clorox.
“the reason why we haven’t surrounded San Francisco and Berkeley with 20 FT tall razor wire fencing and re-designated it as ‘hostile enemy territory’ is what, exactly?”
Because there are many hundreds of thousands here who don’t deserve such treatment ? What I’m asking you for is something other than snarky comments. HELP US !
USA military officers MUST be USA citizens.
IQ has zero to do with that.
SF advertises itself globally as a “Sanctuary City,” so you have NO idea how many students are legal and how many are not legal.
Worse than that, its just oppression for its own sake, because they can and it makes them feel good. They steamrollered this through over the objections of the kids and their parents, just to make a political point. Thats lower than, well, what ? Its just plain slimy.
Er, no.
You can HELP US. Make noise - post this everywhere, make it an issue.
You ARE a half-wit. You shoot off without knowing anything.
I know these kids. They are BORN here for the most part.
You have to help yourselves first. Start the ball rolling and conservatives will be right there with you. Protest...Boycott...start an ROTC program after school or on weekends. Whatever you can do.
Well, you have a congressman, don’t you ?
Call him. HELP US !
Er, we are. We will try to keep JROTC alive, with private means if necessary, if permitted by the DOD.
BUT !
WE NEED YOUR HELP !
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