Posted on 07/04/2006 6:20:40 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
LULAC chapter criticizes Austin school district for going against community's wishes.
A Hispanic community group is criticizing the district's choice to lead Travis High School, saying he is inexperienced and unfamiliar with issues facing the campus. Austin school board members last week approved the hiring of Rene Garganta, former principal of University Middle School in Waco. Garganta has also worked as an administrator in the Victoria district and as an administrator, teacher and coach in the Seguin district. The local League of United Latin American Citizens is circulating an e-mail saying the district went against the wishes of the organization and other members of the Travis High community in hiring Garganta.
Olga Cuellar, the group's education committee chairwoman, said it did not want a principal whose experience was solely at the middle school level in a much smaller district, calling it a "setup for failure" based on the experience of past Austin high school administrators. "You take them from a smaller pond and throw them into the ocean where it's sink or swim," she said, "and most of them have sunk." Cuellar said that the district led members of the Travis High community to think they would have some "ownership" of the principal selection process and that Superintendent Pat Forgione did not follow the expected procedures.
"Does he follow what the community of a school asks or does he say, 'Thank you very much,' and then set up his own criteria?" she asked. However, Ramon DeJesus, a Travis High parent who helped develop the school's principal profile, said the criterion that a candidate have experience beyond the middle school level was preferred, not required. "We wanted to match as many of the community concerns as possible," said DeJesus, a member of the district's advisory council. That the criterion wasn't met means "there were probably a lot more that were beyond that concern." He said Garganta's background in science was a benefit to the school and expressed concern that LULAC's e-mail campaign might send the wrong message.
The new principal is familiar with local issues because he worked in nearby districts and attended colleges in the Austin area, DeJesus said. "To say that he's an outsider could be misconstrued. This really saddens me. . . . People (claim) to represent parents when they only met with certain groups. That is not a fair balance." Although the district solicits input from teachers, parents and campus staff members when a vacancy arises, the final decision rests with the superintendent, district spokesman Andy Welch said. "We do a much more extensive job than any school district I know in allowing the campus community to provide input," Welch said, "but everybody needs to realize that it is the superintendent's decision."
More than likely, they don't want him there because he doesn't agree with their political agenda. We're boiling slowly like the frog in the pot as we watch all of this happen. Olga and her buddies need to be removed from the country before they turn it into the cesspool of Latin America.
Olga, I would step back and leave this alone. Just a little friendly advice.
Let's see Olga's citizenship document.
Good point. These people are treasonous.
Any group claiming a racial or ethnic identity in their group's name is simply trying to hijack that racial or ethnic identity and enslave it to their own political agenda.
They use their group's name to intimidate member's of their own racial or ethnic group who disagree with them, and to falsely present a monolithic political viewpoint as the only viewpoint allowed in their racial or ethnic group.
LULUAC!
League of United Latin Un-American Citizens
Let's see her steenkin papers!
Scream at LULAC all you want. If you want to really get your britches in a knot, look at its corporate sponsors.
http://www.lulac.org/programs/corpall.html
Now it is progressive and tolerant to protest that someone is of the "wrong" race. Funny how it is "multicultural" to insist that everyone working at a school or whatever be of the same culture.
The problem is, it's a lead pipe cinch that the city of Austin will give in to them.
OK. I give up. What's the difference in managing a Middle school verses a High School? The difference in running a medium sized school verses a large school? What are the differences in the actual managerial skills and experiences that are necessary.
Answer: There are no differences. The High School is simply larger. Management ability and skill is the key, and it has nothing to do with the size of the entity managed.
No doubt that LULAC had picked someone else that they wanted to get the job.
It probably really burns them that the superintendent picked another Hispanic since it prevents them from being able to play the race card.
I wonder if you and/or some of the others whom I saw last time in Austin remember my statement as to what was THE problem facing the United States? I've tried to tell some around here, but they don't seem to want to listen, for the most part. And, those who are making money off of them get real angry if you bring the subject up.
Hey, LULAC: STFU, go away, get rid of all the wetbacks in your constituency, and then the three of you who remain come back and we will discuss your views.
Does the NAACP and the KKK get any input into the selection or just the preferred specified racial identity group demagogues?
All this reaction seems overdone. All I see here is that the superintendent made a personnel decision with profound implications for hundreds or thousands of high-school students. Some people support that decision; others think that the superintendent erred. Disagreement with the decisions of an elected body (the school board) or a high-ranking bureaucrat (the superintendent) is very common in American society, as evidenced by myriad posts on this forum.
I don't know enough about the Austin public school system to know whether LULAC concerns are founded or unfounded or whether this newly hired principal will execute his job duties well or poorly, but I see no evidence to support the contention that LULAC might propose "rioting in the streets." Most street riots in America, insofar as I know, quite frankly have involved African-Americans, not Hispanics. (Remember, we're not talking about protest demonstrations but riots complete with violence and plundering.)
Not all Hispanics want to turn America into an oligarchic Latin American country; many fled from such countries because of the problems associated with such political and economic structures. Hispanic organizations pose little more danger to our national sovereignty and culture than The Reverend Jesse Jackson or (at worst) the German-American bunds.
I disagree. I am married to the culture and I see how they operate every day I live. Apparently we'll have to agree to disagree. Time will tell -- I believe they have an agenda for totalitarian control and you perhaps don't see things that way. I would love to be able to meet up with the people who have refused to see what is happening after the end comes. However, they'll be dead, moved far away or too cowardly to face me. I'll keep the rest of my views to myself and you keep yours to yourself. Fair enough?
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