Thread: Montebello High in Calif

Montebello High in California

I guess they already finished their English homework!!!
Montebello High School in California

You will not see this heart-stopping photo on the front page of the NY Times, nor on the lead story of the major news networks. The protestors at Montebello High School took the American flag off the school's flag pole and hung it upside down while putting up the Mexican flag over it. (*See pictures below*)

http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/mexicoflag.asp

I predict this stunt will be the nail in the coffin of any guest-worker/amnesty plan on the table in Washington .. The image of the American flag subsumed to another and turned upside down on American soil is already spreading on Internet forums and via e-mail.

Pass this along to every American citizen in your address books and to every representative in the state and federal government.. If you choose to remain uninvolved, do not be amazed when you no longer have a nation to call your own nor anything you have worked for left since it will be 'redistributed' to the activists while you are so peacefully staying out of the 'fray'.. Check history, it is full of nations/empires that disappeared when its citizens no longer held their core beliefs and values. One person CAN make a difference.

One plus one plus one plus one plus one plus one........ ..

The battle for our secure borders and immigration laws that actually mean something, however, hasn't even begun.

If this ticks YOU off...PASS IT ON!
IF IT DOESN'T IT SHOULD!

Montebello High School is where I was supposed to go. There was just no way my parents would even consider me going there. It had for the early 70's a typical suburban mix of races 70% white, 20% Latino 10% Asian no black.

The reason why my parents were not going to send me there was the low bar set academically by that school district, absence of discipline and the pitiful college acceptance rates - and I'm talking 1970's. I had friends that went to Montebello High - (it was the inland surf rat crowd). Group of 20 guys from there I knew personally - of the 3 out of 20 that did go to college 2 of them finished, albiet on the 6 year plan from a Cal State. That was totally representative of the overall statistic back then, which was 15% college acceptance.

Having set a low bar back then - what common element does that attract? Under achievers - parents that use the school system as public daycare.

Conversely, private high school I did go to had a similar racial mix 70% white, 10% black, 10% Latino, 10% Asian - but my particular graduating class was ranked #1 in the US for getting accepted to college of 1st choice (Ivy's, service academies, the UCs) and 99% went to college. 1% chose not to. Given the stiff tuition - you damn right, the parents footing the bill had an expectation of achievement out of their kids. I got 1 C+ in the 3 years I attended (our curriculum was setup so we could chose to get out in 3 or earn college credits our senior year) and I never got such an ass kicking from my dad. A's were expected, B's you got dirty look. Get a C, get the belt.

If there's something to distill out of that diatribe: if coming to this country is no big deal, education is not important - that perpetuates the underclass for that group. And schools like Montebello that set a low bar, attract underachievers.