San Francisco educators put JROTC reprieve on ice
A year ago, the San Francisco Board of (mis)Education–ignoring pleas from hundreds of students–took steps to kill the JROTC program in its public schools. Yesterday, a resolution to give the JROTC cadets a reprieve was tabled:
A controversial resolution that would have granted a one-year reprieve to the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in San Francisco schools was pulled off the school board’s agenda Tuesday night minutes after the meeting started.
Board President Mark Sanchez, a co-author of the measure, said he believed there wasn’t enough support for the measure as it was written.
“We need more discussion about it,” he said.
That means that unless the board takes further action in the future, the 90-year-old JROTC program will be eliminated at the end of this school year - fulfilling a decision the board made last November. The resolution before the board Tuesday would have extended the program for a year at five high schools, although it would have prevented ninth-graders from enrolling in those JROTC programs.
The JROTC programs at the other two high schools would have been eliminated and replaced with a still-undeveloped alternative program. Board member Kim-Shree Maufas, listed as the measure’s co-author, said she disagreed with the conditions in the resolution, specifically the prohibition against ninth-grade enrollment next year. She and Sanchez will “work on (the measure) some more,” she said.
More than 100 students and community members attended the meeting, the vast majority supporting the JROTC programs.
The program had been in place for 90 years, giving thousands of students over the years valuable leadership, physical ed, and self-discipline skills. But sending an anti-war, anti-military message in the name of “tolerance” takes precedence over student enrichment.
Caution: San Francisco values at work.
I’ll give one of the JROTC cadets the last word:
Lowell High School senior Connie Chen had hoped to address the board, but didn’t make it to the front of a very long line. Later, she said the board has left the students in limbo - with no extension and no replacement program - with about seven months until the end of the school year.
“They were elected to do what’s best for the students,” said Chen, who is the senior JROTC officer at her school. “They’re the ones who should take JROTC leadership courses.”
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“Support” the troops. Stall. Protest. Repeat.
Bay Area values strike again…which leads me to say:
Palomino!
what loons, and what pray tell type of ‘program’ would they replace the JROTC with? same failed liberal agenda, make peace not war? and they can’t even manage to have that together for the kids in a timely manner?
Leadership, there isn’t much of that around in SF..
Pull all federal funds from the school system. Why should a penny of anyone’s taxes support these deluded fools? Besides, I must question the quality of the product these schools produce.
However, I must admit that senior Connie Chen has her head on straight. Must be the JROTC influence.
I can’t understand why they would do this to these kids. To deprive them of the skills they will need to be successful in life beyond high school is appalling. After all isn’t the liberal’s number one battle cry “it is for the children.”
Smart girl that Connie Chen. The morons on the board should take the ROTC program for 1 quarter. Bet they would all fail….typical of liberals. Quit before the program has ended. Sound familiar to any other venue happening today?
Liberalism is a mental disorder pretty much sums up San Fransicko’s problems.
To wrcnossen: The quality of product that these schools produce is shown across the bay at Berkeley. They live in trees.:)
Spree over at WakeupAmerica has a petition going to suggest that San Francisco go back to Mexico. Their elected officials are anti-Military and anti-American. She would like to get 1000 signatures. She knows it is more or less a vent but what the heck, go ahead and sign it.
http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/2007/11/san-francisco-should-not-be-part-of.html
I wish President Bush would make the dreams of these board members come true. With an executive order, the President could give them the oppotunity to be “martyrs for peace”. Declare the actions of this board to be seditious in a time of war, round them up and fly them off to Club Gitmo to pay their debt to society.
Just for fun, include black Blackhawk helicopters in the arrest operation. That ought to unite the libs, the Truthers, and the Paulbots in a cacophony of paranoid oubursts about the “Fourth Reich” and Der Fuehrer Bush.
What great blog fodder for Michelle and Allahpundit.
This is one 199,876 reasons I moved OUT of the Bay Area and into a RED COUNTY in this pathetic state of Kalifornia.
Yes, let’s ignore what the people want as they can’t possibly know what is good for them.
“For the people, by the people” Does that even mean anything anymore?
Simple solution as I see it.
The JROTC uniforms need to be leather S&M outfits with impeach Bush socks and sex paraphernalia dangling everywhere. Then, pass out condoms and birth control “medicine”. Next, protest anything having to do with nothing whilst holding a sign that says:
“Kill babies not soldiers”
Reinstated JROTC program with some Pillosi GaWhore pork to support it.
NEXT!
All,
I posted this under the olympia protester subject…this is how the rest of the country feels NOT SF and Oylmpia Values.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nZfRE2GqQPk
God Bless our Troops
SF board of education or quite rightly put by MM (mis) education, board of supervisors, city council are all very much communists.
I am not just throughing that around. I really do mean, they are communists.
I feel really bad for the kids. On some of the local news channels when this story first broke a year ago there were kids crying about it. All the supporters were just so high and mighty about the whole thing….”we know whats best” blah blah blah blah.
I can’t even bring myself to get excited about this anymore!?!? It is just an evil the normal folk out here just have to live with.
Didn’t Newsom come out against the cancellation of the program?
Well, socialist is as solialist does
Okay, it is corny, but you get the point. I agree, pull all the funding, pull all the military aid, let the council justify to the voters why they ‘voluntarily’ gave up federal monies.
SF is a total embarassment to free thinking patriots. I would opt for putting a fence around it and designating it a zoo, if it wasn’t for the fact I know there are good people there like this cadet.
Isn’t it obvious what has happened here? The self-loathing, anti-heterosexual, America-hating, “it’s payback time” cretins who have suffered morally from decades of ridicule and shame, have, in the last 20 years, become elected into public office where they will now wreak vengeance on America’s protectors; their antagonists.
Their self-aggrandized enlightened status elevates them above the “lesser” of the species…those who would actually try to insure our freedoms by self-sacrifice. It’s sickening!
The solution? Cut off all federal aid to the city, and cancel all federal military contracts with businesses located within the city. Limit all federal law enforcement assistance to San Francisco. Basically, isolate them. Once the people have had enough, they will change their city’s own diapers!
#17 - not that i am aware of. If he did, it was a big HUSSSHHH. He didn’t come out against Fulsome street fair either.
He is a pawn. All of the SF “groups” have him by the stones politically. He does whatever the city wants. talk about bad parenting…jeesh!
All,
The Marine Tribute “I Still Believe”
I am really not interested in what a bunch SF liberals, who have never had to take up arms, to protect their country are doing..they really bore me.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SvXJuGQhrEg
Perhaps this was made in jest, but the reason why this would not be a good idea (otherwise I would be right there with you) is that MANY of the financial district 9-5ers that work here are not liberal AT ALL. If a disaster were to happen, it most likely would be in the financial district (e.g. another terrorist attack). Thereby, really impacting the people that already “get it”.
Just sayin’.
What do you expect from San Franciskistan?
feebiebabe #22,
These SF folks, take their comfort and freedom for granted (They Have Every Reason to) but not through any actions of their own….don’t worry the people who are serving and protecting us and them, will still protect them..The American Military Service People, uphold their oaths to our country.
#24 - which is exactly why you are respected and they are not. they are a really troubled bunch.
feebiebabe
It was made in jest, however, what would happen if you forced them to contend with the prospect of having to fend for themselves? Wouldn’t their argument for NOT having federal aid and contracts withdrawn make a startling point? “But you can’t do THAT…after all, WE’RE American citizens!” Exactimundo!
#26 - I would have to agree with feebie…while forcing them to rethink their stance on why they want/need/deserve federal funding and protection for whatever they get it for may be a very practical idea, the fact remains that they will probably still refuse to think about it until after they and all the others who don’t share their leftist tendencies or beliefs have been hurt/endangered/threatened by the lack of federal funding or protection.
MissMarciLyn
Our administration would never allow any part of this country to go unprotected, and they wouldn’t in this case, either! We protect our own, but that doesn’t mean we HAVE to let a corrupt city government continue to benefit financially from federal generosity, in spite of misguided recalcitrance!
oops. I didn’t close the above quote correctly. Sorry.
We should take their federal funding away immediately. This is really uncalled for. It is probably the ‘militant gay’ community more than the anti-war community. Whatever it is, they should be ashamed of themselves. The problem is that they are likely proud.
#30 - or providing themselves with a stalling tactic…then the JORTC is no more.
They are a bunch of grinchy-bah-hum-bug-enviro-nazi-wasteoid-smelly-hippie-losers. Did I mention they are pains in the but complainers too…
You really can’t expect any type of rational thought process from this bunch. They probably spend an hour ordering their lunches:
“Ahhh, let’s see here, I’ll take the Tuna Nicoise Salad -oh um is the Tuna dolphin safe? and is the lettuce organic? And the Feta, do you happen to know the conditions of the dairy farm the cow was kept in - were they inhumane? Oh, the eggs, are they from free range chickens? oh, no…well, just the potatoes, green beans, onions and olives. OK, thanks…Oh wait…you have tofu burgers?”.
Meanwhile the guy behind the counter has a look on his face like he’s just seen a ghost…
I kid you not…if you’ve ever stood behind one of these peeps, its unreal, you are pretty much ready to off yourself by the time you actually get up to the counter.
The solution is simple. Start a group (it only takes two people to be a group) get a good lawyer,sue the SF schools and lobby to take away Fed $$. While we’re at it,lobby to defund Evergreen State College in Olympia,WA, (where our military is being terrorized by 18 year olds and nothing is being done about it) sue the city council, and the state of Washington. Money talks-we’ve have not been using our leverage. We have something to learn from the ACLU,CAIR,NAACP et.al.Let’s learn it!
San Franjustgo
Too late to write or think much. It is 1153 PM where I am. JROTC is an awesome program. It did great things for me in high school (I even met my wife there!). As such, it MUST be done away with in SF. I don’t even want to imagine what program they plan to replace it with; maybe the Junior Egalitarian Rantist Corps (JERC).
Connie Chen, 18 and making sense. I think she has a bright future.
Majority rule, and the majority in SF are a bunch of Godless commies. Cut off all Fed. aide. The decent people will move away, and anyone who stays deservers the government he gets.
feebiebabe said:
Quite right. We may like to toss around the word “commie”, and the Kossacks like to toss around the word “fascist”, but with Bay Area politiks, it is no hyperbole.
But what I think is most surprising is: San Fran has schools? What? I thought their kind didn’t engage in acts that lead to reproduction. And those few that do tend to abort their post-coital fertilized menstrual tissue. Where did they find enough legal minors to fill a classroom, let alone a whole school?
San Francisco values are for losers.
GaijinBob #37 - it’s called immigration. Those with children that can move have, many long-term residents don’t have them in the first place, ageing and retired resident’s children are grown and moved on, some newer residents have no intention of having children either. I’m shocked they have the number attending schools they do.
The most visually beautiful city outside of Europe is limited for growth by it’s dimensions. It has no place to build - but straight up, and sitting on earthquake faults that’s risky if not over the top expensive.
I spent three years in JROTC and learned more about patriotism and self discipline than I did anything else. Maybe it was the elective War Mongering in the 21st Century that made me join the military, or maybe just my love for this great country.