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Fired Texas Principal Speaks Out: ‘It Would Be Best to Speak English in Classrooms’
Townhall.com ^ | August 10, 2014 | Leah Barkoukis

Posted on 08/10/2014 2:34:17 PM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 08/10/2014 2:34:17 PM PDT by Kaslin
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**Fired Texas Principal Speaks Out: ‘It Would Be Best to Speak English in Classrooms’**

Amen!


2 posted on 08/10/2014 2:38:51 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Kaslin
Another simple case of anti-whitey

Remember the cr** they pulled on Perry about some dumb rock near the old homestead....

3 posted on 08/10/2014 2:38:56 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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That’s terrible...just terrible, I tell ya!

How dare she speak the truth. She should lose her job.

Silly me...she did.


4 posted on 08/10/2014 2:40:54 PM PDT by berdie
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The principal is and was 100% correct


5 posted on 08/10/2014 2:41:29 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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“even when true facts were never given to the media” because she and others were not allowed to publicly defend her position.

By design, of course. Only lies and/or Spanish will be tolerated.

6 posted on 08/10/2014 2:44:27 PM PDT by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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“I think the public needs to know that in public education there are only one or two district personnel designated to talk to media,” she wrote in closing, “so any teachers that would have liked to speak on my behalf were not allowed without risking their job status.”

I understand not being able to make official comments but what happened to free speech?


7 posted on 08/10/2014 2:46:17 PM PDT by TexasGator
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She is 100% correct and our country would be better off for everyone.


8 posted on 08/10/2014 2:47:20 PM PDT by mulligan (I)
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So is she now unemployed? I hope not. If that blond lady in the photo is her, she’s far too young to even say the word ‘retirement’ unless she has a well to do husband.


9 posted on 08/10/2014 2:48:38 PM PDT by lee martell
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We’ve already give away our nation. It’s already too late.

She’s right. So what. Later this month Obama is going to grant broad amnesty, and John Boehner will cry.

And so goes the Republic.


10 posted on 08/10/2014 2:50:39 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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She needs to be given Award not fired for speaking the Truth. Everything is backwards Everywhere.


11 posted on 08/10/2014 2:52:45 PM PDT by easternsky
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One of the main things that should be addressed, and won't, is the gang mentality of speaking spanish to make fun of others or show disrespect to teachers who don't understand the language.

I've told this before but many many years ago when my husband and I had first married, we were at a laundromat and two hispanic women were speaking spanish and kept looking over at us and laughing. I quietly joked to my husband that they thought he was a weenie for doing "women's work"..... he looked right at them and broke out some long sentence in German (which of course I did not understand!) and you should have seen the look on the faces of those women! You would have thought he had slapped them both. They don't like it when they geet the tables turned on them.

12 posted on 08/10/2014 3:10:46 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Turmoil in the Middle East? Quick Obama, show them your Peace Prize!)
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This is a months old event resulting in principle Lacey’s contract not being renewed after being placed on leave.

Lacey comported herself well in her letter to the Houston Chronicle and the associated chron.com gives a short list, in March, of superintendent Flores-Smith’s case against Lacey, who was placed on leave in December and who has engaged a lawyer to appeal the nonrenewal of her contract.

I found no news on this since then and would love to know the outcome.


13 posted on 08/10/2014 3:11:56 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team fmore Marxists coming.)
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Language is now race??? What the hell goes on in a liberal mind??? They are so blinded by race that EVERYTHING is race. Now the language we speak is racial? Is an African from Sierra Leone now French race because he speaks French? I speak limited Spanish. Does that make me a Mexican (which is not a race?).

What a bunch of idiots.


14 posted on 08/10/2014 3:14:43 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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My son came from China 5 years ago. He spoke almost no English. Today he is fluent. There is no reason others can’t do the same thing.

Of course unless the goal of these educators is to create permanent under class that is dependent on the government. Which also just happens to also be a majority of Democrat voter.


15 posted on 08/10/2014 3:18:16 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: Kaslin
What's this with these ‘gag orders’? This same crap happened in Newtown (Sandy Hook) and to the NYS teachers regarding the deficiencies of Common Core. These unconstitutional orders only happen to protect the politically correct/Agenda 21/anti-American agenda.

Is not a gag order a violation of the 1A? From now on they should respond by saying ‘gag this’.

16 posted on 08/10/2014 3:18:18 PM PDT by Paulie
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

Good for your hubby! I hope you pretended to understand his every syllable This response of his probably made them consider that if he could speak German, he might very well know Spanish too, and could possibly understand every word they had said! Bet they were embarrassed to get exposed and nailed in the same manner. Great anecdote you have shared. Thanks.


17 posted on 08/10/2014 3:19:32 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team fmore Marxists coming.)
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To: GeronL
The principal is and was 100% correct

It's obvious that liberals had to be behind this.

18 posted on 08/10/2014 3:20:29 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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‘It Would Be Best should be required to Speak English in Classrooms’
19 posted on 08/10/2014 3:21:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

I’m doing that the next time that happens to me which is often here in the Hispanic region of the us


20 posted on 08/10/2014 3:24:55 PM PDT by stanne
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