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.
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You've got to expect such mild, poignant commentary at a Conservative news discussion forum. Please don't become upset when people respond to truly awful, anti-American news with less than the utter contempt and revulsion it deserves. I would think that most healthy people would be delighted to see that there are still people who are willing to stand up for what's right and register their profound displeasure at such terrible occurrences.
HELP US !
What sort of help would you like? Advice on how to repopulate the voting demographics of the City of San Francisco with a sane majority, so that you won't have elected officials who pull crap like this?
Break that into hard numbers, for me.
How many HS students in SF?
How many do you know?
Are home school credits accepted?
Yes, He is a very Pro Military Conservative...
Okay.
JROTC is still one of the most popular programs in our school, but then again, we aren't in San Francisco.
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Actually, the probably killed it for after school sports being given PE credit also.
There’s a new state regulation that kids have to actually take PE and other activities will not count.
Here’s the website that San Jose Unified has about the new restrictions:
http://www.sjusd.org/school/district/more_info/5694/
The government of the City of San Francisco is about the most disgusting public institution in this country next to the Congress.
Er, dozens ?
Out of @1200 JROTC kids, mostly Asian.
Jeez Louise, do you think little Chinese kids swim by the thousands across the Rio Grande ?
“You’ve got to expect such mild, poignant commentary at a Conservative news discussion forum.”
I would like to think we conservatives actually possess brains and a sense of reality. Or we should.
“What sort of help would you like? “
Help make a mighty noise !
His plan is probably to open a school campus chapter of the New Black Panther Party as soon as possible.
You aren’t wrong, but ...
Weirdly, the government of SF is pro-JROTC, or the mayor (Gay-marriage Newsom) is anyway.
The School Board is MUCH further left than the mayor.
That may be an odd concept to get around, but its so.
It will be some lame thing along those lines, yes.
I can just see them trying to sell that to Asians.
Fund the enemy ?
I mainly fund you ! I pay my Federal taxes, thank you.
We are in this together.
I don't know what California school requirements are. Here, P.E. is required, and JROTC is an elective, but the kids have at least one elective each year, so there's no problem if they really want to take JROTC. My niece, who will be in 9th grade next year, is taking JROTC and band as electives.
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