Posted on 04/06/2006 12:02:04 AM PDT by SUSSA
INVASION USA High-school coach fired for aiding illegals' cause English prof: 'We gots 2 show the U.S. that they aint (expletive) with out us'
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A junior-varsity baseball coach at Cesar Chavez High School in Houston has been ejected from his sports duties after using his position to advocate the cause of illegal aliens.
Rudy Rios admits he used a district copier to make fliers encouraging Hispanic students to attend a rally protesting restrictions on illegal immigration.
According to the Houston Chronicle, the fliers read: "We gots 2 stay together and protest against the new law that wants 2 be passed against all immigrants. We gots 2 show the U.S. that they aint (four-letter expletive) with out us (sic)."
Rios is an English-as-a-second-language teacher, and is keeping that position despite his ouster from the baseball program.
"I don't believe that was the right choice and I let them know right there and then," Rios told KHOU-TV. "I mean it wasn't anything bad against the school."
The Houston Independent School District has a different opinion.
"Mr. Rios used taxpayer-funded school equipment to copy and distribute to children an offensive statement," spokesman Terry Abbott told the Chronicle. "The principal exercised his authority to remove Mr. Rios as junior-varsity baseball coach, and it certainly was an appropriate decision."
Just last week, Principal Robert Pambello at newsman Dan Rather's alma mater in Houston, John Reagan High School, was disciplined for flying a Mexican flag below the U.S. and Texas banners on campus.
The Houston Federation of Teachers says many educators are having a tough time keeping their opinions on immigration out of the classroom.
"A teacher's role is to be informative, but not persuasive. They need to talk to students. They need to make sure they know the issues, but like any other political issue, their role is not to express a specific opinion," president Gayle Fallon told the paper. "A teacher is a citizen. A teacher has every right to – on their own time – be as public as they want, no matter how popular or unpopular their views."
As for Rios, he claims to have the support of many students and fellow teachers who want him back on the playing field.
"They're like, 'When are you coming back? We need you, we want you,'" he told KHOU. "To me that's why I can't let this die and let it go. Because they're asking me, and I teach them and tell them, 'Well, you need to stand up for what you believe, stand up for your rights,' and then the teacher doesn't. Well that sounds to me like double talk."
For once, in this bizzarely p.c. world, the rights of main stream americans were stood up for. Hopefully the lesson learned here is the Americans have rights in America, not criminals, and if your a illegal immigrant..thats you.
As I feared, this is an example of the sort of person who will be teaching English and American history.
Traitors to America are coming out of the woodwork (and the southern border).
I heard Rudy Rios interviewed on a local talk show Wednesday.
He is an idiot.
His teaching philosophy seems to be that even if the kids are wrong, let them them do it because it is what they think is right.
I noticed the same thing, especially in light of this: "Rios is an English-as-a-second-language teacher, and is keeping that position despite his ouster from the baseball program."
You have to wonder who is making some of the hiring decisions these days. They're actually keeping the guy on for this function. Holy cow Batman...
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When I was in college, we were having a discussion about student drug addicts, the potheads and LSD zombies. My professor said, "Think about this: thirty years from now these people will be running the country."
I try not to think about it. LOL
..just one of many
It sounds like he's teaching Ebonics as a second language.
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