Posted on 05/08/2009 4:24:18 PM PDT by counterpunch
César Chávez Elementary School 825 Shotwell Street San Francisco, CA. 94110 Voice/TTY (415) 695-5765 Fax (415) 695-5843 Email: sch603@muse.sfusd.edu
Silent Language of the Soul (©1990), mural by Juana Alicia & Susan Cervantes, welcomes diversity in our school. Full image (500 K)
Si Se Puede (©1996) mural by Susan Cervantes, keeps César Chávez' s struggle for justice and dignity alive. Full image (340K)
Our Mission Statement César Chávez School is a community of life-long learners, achievers and activists who support self determination. We incorporate and integrate academic skills, leadership development, and cultural awareness that is relative to the reality of our community. We are committed to the spirit, philosophy and actions of César Chávez. We learn about and participate in political action and personal growth that will empower our community to reach our full potential of higher consciousness in order to be globally responsible, respectable and loving human beings that will transform our community.
Mega ‘Kum-bye-yah” award winner.
And Mayor Bloomberg, Newt Gingrich, and Rev. Al Sharpton think public education is worth saving.
I pity these kids that will never grow up knowing what America is all about. It is an absolute disgrace.
I’m sure a student there who wished to challenge the conventional view of Chavez as a saintly hero would find his or her challenge welcomed in the spirit of academic freedom.
Also: My goodness, what a load of PC gobbledygook. “Relative to our reality”— whaaa?
So I guess the school wouldn’t object if someone gave the kids an informational session on how Cesar Chavez felt about illegal immigrants?
Child abuse.
The Public Schools have been Left Wing hell holes for decades and decades be it Calif., Ohio, or name a state.
Only some are just finding out years to late.
Yet, Conservatives put their kids in public schools
and keep the process going.
Cesar Chavez School? Reminds me of the “Ayn Rand School for Tots” daycare facility on “The Simpsons.” Classic episode.
My husband and I chose to home school for these very reasons, although my family (full of public college educated teachers) think we are right wing nut-jobs. Yeah, we are such right wing nut jobs we are not going to let our girls go to public university either. I am thinking Hillsdale College...
LOL! Ya gotta love the Simpsons. I always liked the “Blood Bath and Beyond” store.
My head hurts...
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Most of my K-7 years were spent in the Chino Unified School District in Chino, California (San Bernardino County) and it was NOTHING like this at all! Of course, that was 1965-72. We still had corporal punishment!
The far left press on Public Schools started especially in the later 60s but from 70s on and more heavy duty and the past 20 years.
Kids don’t have a clue about common facts of American history or who Washington or Lincoln are and what time in history they live.
Actually large number of Univ. grads don’t have a clue.
Asked a master degree guy who bombed Pearl Harbor, he didn’t know. I could go on for pages with more examples.
Just take a look at the History and Gov. text books for public schools.
Good for you, a person with a clue.
Memom, here’s another one, you know what to do...
; )
Pagan academies aka socialist government schools are not worth saving.
How bad does it need to get before Christians, conservatives and constitutionalists wake up and smell the coffee and abandon these cesspools? Home schooling or private schooling is the only way to go.
:’(
I think they meant “relevant”, but when you’re trying to generate academic mumbo-jumbo and call it a mission statement, it doesn’t need to make sense.
Caption:...I got this shot of Ceasar Chavez Elementary taken from Folsom Street. I love the green canopy on Folsom, and the way the mural of Ceasar Chavez radiates over the yard and into the neighborhood.
Here’s the good news. Teaching based on ideology is almost always seen as a scam and a waste of time by the students themselves. I’m thinking about the mindless Marxist drivel students produced during the Soviet era merely to pass through the system, get the grade, and get out.
The more the system forces the leftist viewpoint down the throats of the student, the more the student responds with the reflexive ironic boredom found in any group of oppressed serfs. The student learns to regurgitate the party line, which also teaches the student that the party line is without content or meaning. It’s not a surprise that 40 years of leftist indoctrination have produced students who are apathetic, disinterested, and cynical.
I see it in my classroom every day. The bright kids know they’re seen as props for leftist utopianism, and the rest know that they have to keep their mouths shut and heads down to avoid saying or doing anything that would get them noticed for offenses against diversity or prevailing opinion. It takes me at least a year to promote what used to called “discussion.” The students feel that they shouldn’t say anything lest someone else is “offended.”
A fair amount of this stems from the self-esteem movement of 20 years ago, too, which has its basis in the leftist belief that everyone should be equal. No one wants to stand out. In fact, every year I get a certain number of kids who carefully study the class and work diligently to turn in work that meets the effort of the average student.
The end result is that the left is seen as the doddering idiots in charge, or, to paraphrase an old Soviet joke, we pretend to go along with your beliefs, and they pretend it’s education.
I really believe that one day it will collapse like dust, just as the old Soviet Union did. Until then, though, I’m reminded of one bright student who looked at this colorful laminated poster from some educational supply house with the words, “Everyone can succeed if they try!” The student gave me a wry smile and said, “It’s fascism lite.” Out of the mouths of babes.
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