School District Gives Credits to Students Who Rally for Lawbreakers
Jim Kouri, CPP
April 09, 2006
Many parents are outraged over learning that their kids are being used by school administrators and teachers to further their own political agenda.
Officials with Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland say those students who attend the upcoming pro-illegal immigration rally can get credit for their Student Service Learning hours. However, no credit is being offered for attending rallies that are opposed to open borders or illegal immigration.
The immigration rally scheduled to be held in Montgomery County on Monday is expected to attract thousands, including some children from a local school district.
Every high school student in MCPS must have 60 hours of volunteer or activism service to graduate, according to WTOP radio in Washington, DC. The school district equates volunteer work at a nursing home or hospital with a political protest, say many observers.
Many parents are outraged that children can get credit for attending the rally, saying there is a potential for endangering the students if things get out of hand.
"Frankly, if the Klu Klux Klan was having a rally downtown, would the school system allow that? That's a political event. I would hope not," one parent told WTOP radio.
Brian Edwards, a spokesman for the school district, said any organization with which students volunteer must be approved by the school district. So far the school district only recognizes protests and rallies by so-called pro-immigration groups. He says CASA of Maryland, the group sponsoring the students at the rally, is an approved group, and they will be watching the students who plan to march.
Montgomery County School District isn't the only with administrators and teachers using students to further their political agenda. Other districts across the country have encouraged students to attend anti-war protests or, more recently, pro-immigration protests. In Texas, there are reports that school officials are encouraging students of all ages to protest against the legislation that would crackdown on illegal immigration.
CASA de Maryland is a left-wing organization whose stated goal is obtaining special rights for llegal immigrants including access to social and healthcare services and driver licences for illegal aliens.
Chris Core, talk-show host on Washington's WMAL-AM, noted that CASA de Maryland, the pro-illegal immigration group, has now threatened to follow the kids of the Minutemen to their schools. Core says the natural reaction of any parent toward anyone harassing, threatening, or following his kids would be to go after that person "with a baseball bat."
CASA Executive Director Gustavo Torres says photographing the Minutemen is only "the first step."
"Then we are going to picket their houses and the schools of their kids, and their work...to let people know they are extremists, that they are anti-immigrant," Torres said.
While the Maryland's Montgomery County School District attempt to put a happy face on CASA, the group is in collusion with International ANSWER, a known communist front group. And CASA didn't seem to get much in the way of a background check to get school officials to approve having students participate in CASA's activities.
According to columnist Wes Vernon, who lives in the area, the political climate in Montgomery County ranges from liberal to ultra-liberal. Within the county there is what has been informally dubbed (and not without reason) "the People's Republic of Takoma Park," site of one of CASA's day laborer centers.
Takoma Park — otherwise known as "Berkeley-East," is a "Sanctuary City." Takoma Park law prohibits anyone in the local government, including the police, from cooperating or assisting with federal probes or arrests involving federal immigration laws.
The left-wing agenda that was once winked at in our nation's colleges and universities is filtering into government high schools where unsuspecting, trusting children are being indoctrinated by activist teachers, who can't teach their way out of a paperbag, and school school administrators with a political agenda.
Officials with Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland say those students who attend the upcoming pro-illegal immigration rally can get credit for their Student Service Learning hours. However, no credit is being offered for attending rallies that are opposed to open borders or illegal immigration.
The immigration rally scheduled to be held in Montgomery County on Monday is expected to attract thousands, including some children from a local school district.
Every high school student in MCPS must have 60 hours of volunteer or activism service to graduate, according to WTOP radio in Washington, DC. The school district equates volunteer work at a nursing home or hospital with a political protest, say many observers.
Many parents are outraged that children can get credit for attending the rally, saying there is a potential for endangering the students if things get out of hand.
"Frankly, if the Klu Klux Klan was having a rally downtown, would the school system allow that? That's a political event. I would hope not," one parent told WTOP radio.
Brian Edwards, a spokesman for the school district, said any organization with which students volunteer must be approved by the school district. So far the school district only recognizes protests and rallies by so-called pro-immigration groups. He says CASA of Maryland, the group sponsoring the students at the rally, is an approved group, and they will be watching the students who plan to march.
Montgomery County School District isn't the only with administrators and teachers using students to further their political agenda. Other districts across the country have encouraged students to attend anti-war protests or, more recently, pro-immigration protests. In Texas, there are reports that school officials are encouraging students of all ages to protest against the legislation that would crackdown on illegal immigration.
CASA de Maryland is a left-wing organization whose stated goal is obtaining special rights for llegal immigrants including access to social and healthcare services and driver licences for illegal aliens.
Chris Core, talk-show host on Washington's WMAL-AM, noted that CASA de Maryland, the pro-illegal immigration group, has now threatened to follow the kids of the Minutemen to their schools. Core says the natural reaction of any parent toward anyone harassing, threatening, or following his kids would be to go after that person "with a baseball bat."
CASA Executive Director Gustavo Torres says photographing the Minutemen is only "the first step."
"Then we are going to picket their houses and the schools of their kids, and their work...to let people know they are extremists, that they are anti-immigrant," Torres said.
While the Maryland's Montgomery County School District attempt to put a happy face on CASA, the group is in collusion with International ANSWER, a known communist front group. And CASA didn't seem to get much in the way of a background check to get school officials to approve having students participate in CASA's activities.
According to columnist Wes Vernon, who lives in the area, the political climate in Montgomery County ranges from liberal to ultra-liberal. Within the county there is what has been informally dubbed (and not without reason) "the People's Republic of Takoma Park," site of one of CASA's day laborer centers.
Takoma Park — otherwise known as "Berkeley-East," is a "Sanctuary City." Takoma Park law prohibits anyone in the local government, including the police, from cooperating or assisting with federal probes or arrests involving federal immigration laws.
The left-wing agenda that was once winked at in our nation's colleges and universities is filtering into government high schools where unsuspecting, trusting children are being indoctrinated by activist teachers, who can't teach their way out of a paperbag, and school school administrators with a political agenda.
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