Thread: Does La Raza Have It's Own LAUSD Charter School?

This doesn't sound good like a good idea.

Exclusively non-English education is a recipe for dead-end jobs and ethnic division.

CA surely must have graduation standards. Does anyone know if CA standards include English?

What a farce Spanish-only education is!

McIntyre in the Morning has begun an investigation into Academia Semillas del Pueblo, an LAUSD charter school. The website for the K-8 school says it is, "dedicated to providing urban children of immigrant native families an excellent education founded upon their own language, cultural values and global realities." The school's student body is 91.3% hispanic and 8.7% native / alaskan native. There is not a single white, black, or asian student.

The school receives support not only from the tax payer but also the National Council of La Raza and the Pasadena City College chapter of MeCHA (Movimemeniento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan). In various interviews and actions the school's founder, principal and council trustee secretary, Marcos Aguilar, has shown contempt for racial integration.

http://www.kabc.com/listingsEntry.asp?ID=437469&PT=

The second most troubling aspect of this possibility is that we taxpayers will have to fund it.

The most troubling aspect is the harm to students.

There is a school like this in New Mexico also. It is my understanding that the idea is to teach the children in Spanish at first to keep them on track and at grade level, and then to introduce English more and more, until when they are in High School their classes will fully be in English.

It sounds like a good idea to me.

I thought your type was a fan of charter schools.

But maybe only the ones that you like?

Here are a couple of links: The children will learn English, Spanish, and Nahautl, an ancient indigenous language. It is just as important that ethnic children learn about their culture/background as much as Christian children need to learn about theirs, or Jewish children need to learn about theirs. I thought you professed free speech, t714zu. They cant have 'free speech' if they can't speak their own language, or is your idea of 'freedom of speech' exclusive to English-only speech.

Source:
http://www.tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/equal...2/aguilar.html

Marcos Aguilar is the founder and principal of La Academia Semillas del Pueblo, a charter school in El Sereno. Maribel Santiago, a UCLA undergraduate, interviewed him for TCLA.

NPR Audio Interview (part of the written transcript here
Source:
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi...at-l&D=1&P=276

SANCHEZ: Students learn English, Spanish and Nahuatl, an ancient language indigenous to Mexico and Central America. Math and science instruction revolves around the Aztec calendar.

How would you all feel about an exclusively all-white charter school, teaching white european history, speaking English only, etc., and funded by tax dollars of course?

Kinda figured that question would be met with silence...

Look at some of the donors:

National Council of La Raza Charter School Development Initiative
Raza Development Fund, Inc.
Glendale Nissan/Infinity, Inc.
California State University, Los Angeles
Pasadena City College – MeCHA
The Latino Museum of History, Art and Culture


From Wikipedia:

MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán), is an organization that seeks to promote an awareness of Chicano history by education and political action. In Spanish, the word mecha means fuse. The motto of MEChA is La Unión Hace La Fuerza, or "Unity Creates Strength".

MEChA has attracted substantial criticism, with critics claiming that it is an irredentist movement aimed at uniting the Southwestern portion of the United States (including Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California) with Mexico, preferably through political means, but through force if necessary.

Sounds like some radical donors there ....

Originally Posted by EricOKC

How would you all feel about an exclusively all-white charter school, teaching white european history, speaking English only, etc., and funded by tax dollars of course?

Or perhaps the KKK or Black Panthers?

Originally Posted by jotathought

Or perhaps the KKK or Black Panthers?

An all-black school funded by the Black Panthers would be perfectly acceptable.

As would an all white one funded by the KKK.

The problem comes in when we have one of those funded by tax dollars, as we have here.

Why is it so horrible to teach Spanish speaking kids in Spanish while they learn English?

What is so terrible about logical education?