Long night for San Francisco school board (BOARD MANDATES TO TEACH PRO-PALI & ANTI WAR!)

San Francisco Examiner ^ | 1/15/03 | Nick Driver

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Publication date: 01/15/2003

Long night for school board

BY NICK DRIVER

Of The Examiner Staff

In a marathon session, the San Francisco Board of Education on Tuesday night debated whether to approve two watered-down versions of controversial anti-war resolutions that angered some parents and led to charges that the sponsoring board members were bringing Middle East politics into the classroom.

Two left-leaning school board members, Democrat Eric Mar and Green Party member Mark Sanchez, authored the resolutions. The first will educate high school students and their parents of their right to privacy from military recruiters.

The more controversial second measure, in its original form, would have mandated the curriculum department to use Web sites with pro-Palestinian views in creating a "Day of Education" about the war against Iraq.

After intense pressure from Jewish groups and many parents over the past month, Mar removed the offending Web sites from the main resolution and stuck them in an attachment.

But that's not enough for many opponents of the resolution, who say any inclusion of the Web sites will sway the information offered to students in a now-required one-day course on the war against Iraq.

"We still oppose this resolution. We feel it's one sided," said Sherrie Rosenberg, president of the San Francisco Parent-Teacher Association.

Robert Kane, a member of the Jewish Community Relations Council, was one of many who spoke against the resolutions.

"A teach-in should not provide a forum for members of the community who oppose a war with Iraq to enlarge the agenda and engage in a highly divisive, highly volatile and highly complex issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."

By press time, the board had not voted on the measure as dozens of speakers weighed in on the issue well into the night.

In other school board action:

Emilio Cruz was elected president of the board on a 4-3 vote, and Mar was elected vice president.

Cruz quickly vowed to mend fences with parents angry that the commissioner with the worst attendance over the past two years had just become the district's top policymaker.

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[goodnesswins]

If I were a parent in California, esp. SF...I would make sure my kid graduated EARLY......really, really, early - this is why kids should not (generally speaking) be in public schools beyond age 16 - they could be taught everything they NEED (readin', 'ritin', and 'rithmetic) easily by age 16.....the rest of the time the ed system seems to be using for propaganda!

[LiteKeeper]

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[Pontiac]

"A teach-in should not provide a forum for members of the community who oppose a war with Iraq to enlarge the agenda and engage in a highly divisive, highly volatile and highly complex issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."

the Web sites will sway the information offered to students in a now-required one-day course on the war against Iraq.

OK everybody on the left seems to want to push this point that the war with Iraq is some how irrevocably linked to the Israeli-Palestinian hostilities.

Someone please explain to me how they are linked. Other than Sadam giving the Pallies money for killing Israelis.

The looming war with Iraq is certainly the preeminent international current event so ignoring it in high school civics class is not possible. However I do not understand why this is something that is necessary for a school board to take up unless some teacher is teaching it in a blatantly improper fashion.

What is odd is that this seems to be exactly what two of the board members want to do, teach the issues of this war in a extremely skewed fashion.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

The school board is facing a HUGE deficit and this is what they're spending our money on?

[Hobsonphile]

More trickle down...
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[ladylib]

"We still oppose this resolution. We feel it's one sided," said Sherrie Rosenberg, president of the San Francisco Parent-Teacher Association."

Well, Ms. Rosenberg, perhaps you should keep your child out of school that day. Perhaps all the parents who disagree with this should just boycott for the day.

I wonder if the district is going to schedule a make-up day at the end of the year?

[Samurai_Jack]

Someone please explain to me how they are linked. Other than Sadam giving the Pallies money for killing Israelis.

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Okay,
Here's the story as brief as I can get it. EVERYTHING in the middle east is centered around the narcissistic Yassir Arafat. Isreal is a splinter in the BUTT of the Arabs and their goal of a pan-arabic islamic sharia law utopia where they can be free to hate jews and women and infidels all they want.

Or... Was that a rhetorical question??

[Humidston]

And O'Reilly just did a piece about how the Oakland School District had a one day teach-in - basically presenting a one-sided anti-war message throughout the entire district.

My head is going to explode.

[Bonaparte]

I grew up in the SF school system and back then anything like this would have been unthinkable. Never would have happened.

[Bonaparte]

Perhaps they should send their kids to the teach-in with gags over their mouths and t-shirts reading, "No Dissent Allowed."

[Uncle George]

Sodom and Gomorrah by the bay, what else could be expected?

[ItsJeff]

.....the rest of the time the ed system seems to be using for propaganda!

Luckily, this collection of half-wits we call "today's generation" is incapable of learning sophisticated concepts like "pro-Palestinian rights." At least, until they make a PlayStation game out of it.

[American Preservative]

FYI San Francisco e-ju-ma-ka-shin ping! : )

[Bonaparte]

I've got news for you. The indoctrination in public schools starts from day one. You don't your child in that hell hole for even a day.

[Dan Day]

OK everybody on the left seems to want to push this point that the war with Iraq is some how irrevocably linked to the Israeli-Palestinian hostilities. Someone please explain to me how they are linked.

Oh, that's easy -- because otherwise it would be *really* hard to blame it all on the Jews.

[Pontiac]

Isreal is a splinter in the BUTT of the Arabs and their goal of a pan-arabic islamic sharia law utopia where they can be free to hate jews and women and infidels all they want.

OK you explained the Arab viewpoint. But what has me baffled is the US Left Liberal Intelligencia viewpoint that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has anything to do with the US conflict with Iraq.

[Samurai_Jack]

the US Left Liberal Intelligencia viewpoint that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has anything to do with the US conflict with
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ANYTHING that the Communist Party USA can use to demoralize US interests, to weaken the fabric of American Society. Ultimately to cause or trigger the demise of the United States of America and with it the great Free Market experiment. Which they LOATH as standing in the way of their Fascist Utopian Totalitarianism.

So we have a faustian strategy here, emeni of my yemeni is my fiend. The leftists only care about the palestinians insofar as their interests run counter to those of US foreign policy.

Sound paranoid? Think about it.

[pbear8]

Keep your kid out of school that day as a protest, tell the school that they will lose the ADA on their 'indoctrination day'. If they see that they will lose enough money, they may back down.