The "authorities" in Berkeley and Oakland are frighteningly stupid.
/like I need it
This is amazing. The traitors among us are destroying the country. Can you just see and ICE agent getting shot by a local cop?
That could be interesting.
I remember being forced to get under a desk, practicing for a nuclear attack (in the 50’s), I got over it.. Of course, we didn’t have black clad commandos rushing about with rifles in hand. The times, they are a changing. ;-)
Boo-Hoo!
“Si se puede!” Eh?
It’s ridiculous how easy it would be to make being an illegal in this country untenable. With a little ruthlessness and imagination they could easily be kept in a 24/7 state of panic until they packed up and left.
Doesn’t look like that’s in the cards for the next four years, at any rate.
Good I live in this area and frankly it is about time.
Nothing like a little disinfo campaign to purposely stir up the sheep.
Sometimes its hard to figure who to despise the most. The mouth breeders who start this sort of thing or the snot gobblers who constantly suck it up.
Do they also sell Puffs at the popcorn stands? I may cry, but I’d like to eat some popcorn while I watch.
These illegal alien parents should be charged with child endangerment for putting their children in such a dangerous situation.
No way children should ever be treated to that kind of harassment and fear.” <<<<<<<
But it’s OK for other kids to fear getting hunted down and shot by illegal gang members or run down by illegal drivers. And then they can’t go to their local emergency room which was shut down due to illegal patients using it as a free clinic. We are expected to keep quiet and put up with all of the above.
Gang banging mexican drug runners though are just part of the neighborhood flavor...
“Initially, Oakland district officials said federal agents were at Stonehurst and denied entry by school staff. By late afternoon, they rescinded that, saying that an ICE vehicle was seen nearby.”
Unreal.
No it didn't.
Not all of them. Just the illegal ones; and yes, that includes minors whose parents are using them to get away with their crimes.
That is great! How do we get more of that?
Could we get a few of these ICE officials to sign a 1 year deal with the Raiders, we haven't frightened anybody in 6 years.
Don’t those awful police have anything better to do than going around arresting criminals? It frightens children, for Pete’s sake!
And Dellums wants to whine about ICE?
You bet he does...
Dellums endorses Hillary, BTW.
Michael Savage should see this article.
No Lenten table causes rift at Prairie View
(http://www.southtownstar.com/news/935499,050708foodfight.article)
May 7, 2008
ILLINOIS
BY ANGELA CAPUTO Staff writer
When some parents at Prairie View Middle School asked for a separate lunch table for their children during the Ramadan fast, Principal Joel Martin thought the request seemed reasonable.
As long as the gathering of fasting students didn’t disrupt and didn’t cost the district anything, Martin had no qualm with offering the religious accommodation.
But his decision rubbed parent Jennifer Cimaglia the wrong way. And when the school shot down a similar, mid-Lenten request by seventh-grader Ryan Vandewiel and 60 or so of his classmates who signed a petition seeking separate seating for observant Catholics, the Tinley Park mother of three decided “enough is enough.”
“It’s not just about the table,” Cimaglia said. “It appears that there is preferential treatment for the Muslim students.”
The potential for ethnic tension prompted the Kirby School District 140 board to put “cultural diversity” on the agenda for its Thursday night committee meeting.
Board member John Martelli said people are welcome to attend to discuss concerns “in an open forum.” It’s unclear if the board plans to take any action on the topic, Martelli said.
Martin said Tuesday he never intended to set a double standard for students — particularly along religious lines. He only rejected the proposal for Catholic students to have a meat-free lunch table on Fridays because they hadn’t thought out the proposal enough to ask before the Lenten season began.
“Do I want to accommodate those students? Yes,” Martin said. “We’re going to look at accommodations for kids at Lent next year.”
Vandewiel — the 13-year-old who circulated the petition on behalf of Catholic students — said he’s satisfied by the principal’s commitment.
“I’d prefer that instead of having things for one religion or another there shouldn’t be anything for religion in school,” the Tinley Park teen said. “I think it’s wrong.”
The fasting-friendly Ramadan table may have been new at Prairie View, but it’s nothing new in the district, according to Supt. Michael Byrne, who is surprised by the fresh controversy. Parents at several of the schools have requested similar accommodations in years past.
What’s new is that the number of Arabic-speaking students in the Tinley Park district has continued to grow. And this year, the number of English as a Second Language students, mostly native-Arabic speakers, topped 20 at Christa McAuliffe School, which, under state law, required administrators to hire a full-time teacher to lead the students.
The addition of the ESL class bumped the art teacher from a classroom and forced the teacher to conduct class from a portable cart.
“It’s how education goes,” Byrne said. “We have special- education students ... I hope (people aren’t) pointing the finger at those students for using classrooms, too.”
But Cimaglia, who has a fifth-grader enrolled at McAuliffe and a seventh-grader at Prairie View, sees the changes made for Muslim students as a matter of preferential treatment - particularly when it comes to the religious accommodation.
“These are all little things adding up,” she said. “What I’d like to see is the same set of rules for all students. This is a public school.”
Angela Caputo can be reached at acaputo@southtownstar.com or (708) 633-5993.