Thread: Mother alleges Capistrano school run like Mexican school

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/s...83-inc-walkway

Friday, August 15, 2008
Is San Juan campus 'a Mexican public school'?
CUSD chief and parent trade statements about multicultural classrooms.
By PETER SCHELDEN
Staff writer
Comments 60| Recommend 42

While the Capistrano Unified School District wades through a passel of public-relations problems from possible high-level snooping to gutting the district bus routes, Superintendent A. Woodrow Carter took some time away from those issues to give one mother's concerns special attention. Is Marco Forster Middle School in San Juan Capistrano operated "like a Mexican public school," as parent Kim McCarthy wrote in a letter to the district? Carter gave out two carefully prepared pages of response to trustees and others at the Aug. 11 school board meeting. The response — written in a detailed point/counterpoint style — argues that white students are in no way suffering from multicultural classrooms.
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Kim McCarthy's Letter

TO: Trustees Ellen Addonizio, Anna Bryson, Larry Christensen, Ken Maddox, Sue Palazzo, Duane Stiff, Mike Darnold



Thank you to the trustees for omitting on the blue request to speak card, the requirement of stating your children's name and school they attended. I can tell you first hand my involvement in the original recall landed me and my family's names on the enemies list. As a result, I was reluctant to speak before the previous Board majority.


My concern tonight is this: For the last 2 years my daughter has attended Marco Forster Middle School, and before her my son attended Marco. Consequently, I have spent a significant amount of time at Marco, yet I have never been comfortable there. Why? Because this school is operated as if it is a Mexican Public School, not an American Public School.


• The Mexican flag is painted on the multi-purpose room wall next to the portrait of a Mexican man with a quote in Spanish.

• Many signs throughout the school at various events are in Spanish.

• Most everyone behind the office counter is often electing to speak Spanish.

• Many a time have I been sitting in the office when the principal walks in, Carrie Bertini, and she is choosing to speak in Spanish instead of English as well.

• The messages on the phones are in Spanish, all of the paperwork is in both Spanish and English.

• On parent teacher night when parents only are requested, many of the Latinos bring their children anyway, as interpretors.

• An awards ceremony at the end of the school year was given in English and then parents had to painstakingly sit through it interpreted by teachers in Spanish to the gasps of the many English-speaking parents.

• Subsequently, due to the way in which this school is run, my daughter and her friends say Spanish is spoken by the majority of Latino's in the hallway who are perfectly capable of speaking English. Why not, when the principle is doing it and no one is telling them any different! Is this promoting assimilation? NO, it promotes divisiveness!


There are 140 languages spoken by California's children, is the CUSD prepared to include them on all paperwork, the phone system, speak their language at awards ceremonies and represent their flags on the wall as well?


What happened to PROP. 227, "REQUIRING ALL PUBLIC SCHOOL INSTRUCTION TO BE CONDUCTED IN ENGLISH?" I consider anything that goes on in the public school system as some form of instruction.


Even more disturbing, why is the Catholic organization CHEC, allowed to promote themselves using our public school system? This is a religious organization targeting one race in our public school. Is this even legal? If so, why don't they make a check out to the CUSD Foundation for ALL of the children of CUSD?


Why is the principle of Marco, Carrie Bertini, getting involved in San Juan Capistrano's local politics and attending the 5/6/2008 City Council meeting to speak on behalf of the Catholic organization CHEC when residents of SJC were opposing the city renewing CHEC's license to operate in one of our residential neighborhoods? And let me make it very clear, because I have it on tape, she introduced herself as the principal of Marc Forster Middle School and identified herself once more during her speech that she was the principal. Miss Bertini gave out her own statistics, crediting her schools relationship with CHEC for a drop in expulsion.


The divisiveness at Marco is disturbingly out of control and it appears, is being perpetuated by the principal.


Bottom line:

• I am asking you, the board of trustees, to enforce the laws of The United States of America and PROP 227 at Marco and throughout the district.

• Please do not allow the Mexican flag to remain on the walls at Marco.

• Do not allow any one religion to single out one race of children and use our public school system to promote it and their organization.

• Please ask Marco Principal Carrie Bertini to stop promoting the use of the Spanish language thus enabling Latinos to create Mexico within our public school system. Maybe then these students will better assimilate, which in turn will foster better relations all around.


What is happening at Marco is unacceptable. I and many other parents and children are tired of it and want it to end but we need your help to do it. I'm asking for your intervention.


Thank you,

Kim McCarthy

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Superintendant's response is available at the following link in .pdf form
http://www.ocregister.com/newsimages...erresponse.PDF

This superintendent, no matter how eloquent his words, in my estimation should be replaced by someone, anyone else, who is ready to stand up for Americans, their children's education as Americans, etc.

The entire town is overrun with illegals. Gang activity occurs almost weekly. Marco Forster is all Mexican as well as the high schools. Unless the money stops flowing in nothing will be done. As a taxpayer I feel like I'm supporting foreigners constantly!

• Please do not allow the Mexican flag to remain on the walls at Marco.

WTF!?!?!?!

ICE BEEN CALLED, YET?

IF THEY WOULD JUST READ OUR HELPFUL POST?