Yes our founding fathers may have spoke several languages, But in our country, around our people they spoke ENGLISH. Its wonderful to know other languages, but when you are in An English speaking country, and speak your language as A protest/way to impose your culture on our country, thats The problem. Assimilation , cohesive , one people now that Something you know about. Rather try remain special interest and cry civil rights. Something you will never understand or you wouldnt Equate your petty criminal crap with the suffering of the civil rights era. We The People Rising wethepeoplerising EMAIL robinhvidston@wethepeoplerising or rhvidston1@yahoo Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Principal FIRED For Telling Students To Speak English A local Texas group is organizing to support the principal Listen to the Ruthie Report, today, 6pm CST: Pro-Engish guest mnsirproject/ HEMPSTEAD, TX As detailed in the article below, Principal Amy Lacey was initially placed on administrative leave in December when she announced over the Hempstead Middle School schools.hempsteadisd.org/ intercom that students were not to speak Spanish on campus. On 3/17/14, the Hempstead School Board did not renew her contract. Principal Amy Lacey is the victim of the tactics employed by the WELL FUNDED, LEFTIST ORGANIZATIONS LULAC https://lulac.org/ AND MALDEF maldef.org/ groups instrumental in the push to not renew her contract. In a press release from last evening, ProEnglish Executive Director Robert Vandervoort called it “an outrage” that the school board “caved in to vocal multilingual pressure groups and fired a well-meaning principal. CALL/EMAIL the Hempstead Independent School District. hempsteadisd.org/ As always, be courteous and professional. Let them know that you support Hempstead Middle School Principal Amy Lacey. English is the INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE. Promoting the speaking of English at a middle school will improve the future for the middle school students. Employing the English language on campus is a unifying force for students. The organization Pro English states: In a pluralistic nation such as ours, the function of government should be to foster and support the similarities that unite us, rather than institutionalize the differences that divide us.Our nations public schools have the clear responsibility to help students who dont know English to learn that language as quickly as possible. To do otherwise is to sentence the child to a lifetime of political and economic isolation. Quality teaching of English and Americas civic culture should be a part of every students curriculum. https://proenglish.org/about-us/mission.html CALL the Hempstead Independent School District. Phone calls are to be directed to the Public Affairs/Public Information District Spokesperson Laurie Bettis: 979.826.3304 dial extension 231 or 224. EMAIL: [email protected] EMAIL the Hempstead Independent School District Superintendent Delma Flores Smith [email protected] Superintendent Delma Flores Smith ARTICLE Principal who told kids not to speak Spanish will lose job Hempstead issue sharpens focus on rising state Latino enrollment By Lisa Gray | March 18, 2014 | Updated: March 19, 2014 1:51pm HEMPSTEAD - The Hempstead school board wont renew the contract of a principal who instructed her students not to speak Spanish, in a rapidly-evolving district where more than half of the students, like many Texas schools, are now Hispanic. Hempstead Middle School Principal Amy Lacey was placed on paid administrative leave in December after reportedly announcing, via intercom, that students were not to speak Spanish on the schools campus. The Hispanic population of the rural area, roughly 50 miles northwest of Houston, is growing quickly, and Latino advocates say that its important to allow Spanish in public schools. When you start banning aspects of ethnicity or cultural identity, says Augustin Pinedo, director of the League of United Latin American Citizens Region 18, it sends the message that the child is not wanted: We dont want your color. We dont want your kind. They then tend to drop out early. Such fast growth is pervasive in Texas, says Steve Murdock, a professor at Rice University and director of the Hobby Center for the Study of Texas. Half of all Texas public-school students are now Hispanic, he notes. When you look at issues related to education in Texas, to a great extent, youre looking at the education of Hispanic children. Similar growth patterns, he says, hold true for the rest of the United States: Its not just Texas. Civil rights advocates say Laceys suspension may have set off a campaign to intimidate Hispanics, including the districts superintendent, Delma Flores-Smith. They are calling for the Department of Justice and the FBI to investigate possible civil rights violations. An FBI spokesman would not confirm an investigation. Flores-Smith reports that shes seen strangers watching her house and taking photos. She says vandals have trashed her yard, and someone has rifled through her garbage. She is worried about her safety. Last month, school employees found that vandals had damaged the brakes of three Hempstead Independent School District buses and had left behind the bedraggled remains of a dead cat. Hate crimes? A bus with visibly severed brake lines didnt leave the bus barn that morning. But two other buses, whose air-brake lines had been subtly nicked, carried children to school before the damage was discovered. Police investigated but didnt identify any suspects. A lot of this sounds like Mississippi in the 1950s and 60s, Pinedo said during Monday nights school board meeting, where the decision was made not to renew Laceys contract. Pinedo acknowledged that theres no hard evidence that the incidents are related or that theyre hate crimes. But when the lives of children are put in danger, thats the bottom line, he said. We dont know what the reasons are. Rather than guess, were asking the FBI to step in. He said LULAC and the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund have asked the Department of Justice to investigate possible civil rights violations. The whole world is watching, said Tony Diaz, head of the Houston-based radio show Nuestra Palabra and founder of the advocacy group Librotraficantes. Banning Spanish is a national issue. We got a lot of calls about activity in Hempstead, said Cynthia Coles, who represented the Greater Houston Coalition for Justice. We came to support this board, this superintendent. They also note that theres no evidence that speaking Spanish hampers learning English, and note that in most of the rest of the world, its common to speak two or more languages. At the school districts board meeting in January, Pinedo read a list of American Founding Fathers who spoke multiple languages. They included Benjamin Franklin (French) and Thomas Jefferson (French, Italian, Spanish and Latin). Business chief ousted In other action at the meeting Monday, the board voted not to renew the contract of longtime business managerSharon Loukanis. In October the board had placed her on leave while investigating financial irregularities including work allegedly steered to the plumbing company owned by Loukanis husband. Both Laceys and Loukanis contracts will expire at the end of the school year. Before the boards vote, former school board member Kay Kloecker argued that Lacey and Loukanis should be reinstated. Lacey and Loukanis, she said, continue to get paychecks, but were paying consultants to do their jobs. The public deserves an explanation for why we havent had them come back to work when its been shown that none of the allegations is true. Lacey said the terms of her leave dont allow her to comment. Outside the board meeting, Kloecker said that the problem was Flores-Smith, not issues of culture or race. Weve been a predominantly Hispanic district for several years now, she said. But we never had a problem until she came. Flores-Smith started the job in August. After the vote, Flores-Smith expressed satisfaction. Im hoping everything will die down now, she said. We need to get back to peaceful living. And education. https://numbersusa/content/ fairus.org/
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