Posted on 06/05/2006 8:28:08 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Responding to allegations of discrimination, the school district has concluded that an elementary school catering to students of Mexican descent is following its charter, officials said Monday.
The district sent observers after Sandy Wells, a reporter working for KABC-AM, was allegedly assaulted outside the school Thursday by a man who demanded his audio tape. Station officials said Wells was also followed as he drove away. Police are investigating the incident.
"They have followed the charter that they wrote originally," said Kevin Reed, chief legal counsel for the district. "What we care about is that the curriculum is inclusive and not exclusive."
The school in east Los Angeles is one of about 100 charters in the district, Reed said. The school has until January to apply for renewal, and the district anticipates it will, Reed said.
The alleged assault has brought attention to the small school as immigration tensions rise across the country.
KABC-AM radio host Doug McIntyre has been one particularly vociferous critic. McIntyre has accused Academia Semillas del Pueblo school and its principal, Marcos Aguilar, of having a separatist philosophy that excludes students of non-Mexican origin from applying.
Repeated calls to Aguilar Monday seeking comment were not returned.
A school statement last week said it did not "discriminate against any student on the basis of ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity or disability."
Meanwhile Monday, a handful of parents protested at McIntyre's studio, saying the school had received bomb threats because of the show. McIntyre said he had also received death threats due to his criticisms.
The school aimed to provide children of immigrant and native families an education "founded upon their own language, cultural values and global realities," according to the charter application.
"The indigenous heart of our vision is a repossession of an identity denied from our children in standard schools," the application reads.
Students are taught in English, Spanish, Mandarin and Nahuatl, an Aztec language. The school teaches both traditional math curriculum and a separate Aztec math system.
this is good/s
We must stop the reconquista
Great. Now they can be illiterate in four languages instead of two.
Does it require them to join the REST of the GLOBE, after their studies....like move away from the TEAT of the USA and learn what REAL CULTURAL VALUES, LANGUAGE and GLOBAL REALITIES are in their countries of ORIGIN?
That almost has a poetic candence.
Or, it could be that school officials were not involved with the assault on Mr. Wells.
They were. Just wait after the completion of the police investigation.
They were. Just wait after the completion of the police investigation.
Major Ping
'the district sent observers'
unreal
That almost has a poetic candence.
It's a grito, a declaration of separation and war. Whoever wrote it is now a self-declared enemy of the American people.
The business wing of the GOP can't have it both ways. They will choke on these words, which contradict and conclusively refute every thing they have said about "assimilation".
Of course the "poetry" was bullshit. Most Hispanics would also recognize it as such. But it was still an nicely turned phrase, in its way.
O.K.
O.K.
A school statement last week said it did not "discriminate against any student on the basis of ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity or disability, as long as you are a communist."
The links on the site you linked to are also dead.
Someone doesn't want to talk to us and doesn't want us talking to them.
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