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Jesse Diaz
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07/11/05 If no Spanish, no need
to apply!
Since I have no children or grandchildren in the DISD, you might expect me to
ignore the craziness on Ross Avenue at the district's headquarters where Joe May
spends entirely too much time. As a taxpaying citizen of Dallas who shells
out much more to the DISD than City Hall hits me in taxes, I do have a say.
As a product of a very good education from Stephen F. Austin, Maple Lawn and Mt.
Auburn elementary schools before my parents dragged me kicking and screaming to
Lewisville, I have never been able to completely tune out DISD matters.
One of the most disappointing losses from a political campaign I worked in was
Michael Martinez losing by 25 votes to Joe Thug May. Obviously, most of
Joe Thug's votes came from "harvested" mail-in ballots. The laws were
different then and people could be paid to "harvest" mail-in ballots. That
was Joe Thug's specialty. We had a chance to elect an educator who taught
Spanish as a second language to Brinker International staff and managers.
Instead, we got a slumlord who would climb a tree to tell a lie when he could
stand flat footed and tell the truth.
Well, here's a truth, that Joe May's own comments in the following articles will
affirm:
Joe Thug May is a racist.
He doesn't like Anglos and apparently doesn't
respect Hispanic immigrants. Everything he says proves he thinks
non-English speaking immigrants from Mexico are not as intelligent as
non-English speaking immigrants from Asia.
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Lou:
Excellent piece on Joe May, it all rings true.
The DMN published an editorial on this same
subject, but DallasArena.com
was first!
Some little birds within DISD say
Joe Thug's take on the Wilmer-Hutchins situation will be redistricting.
Joe Thug may be interested in creating a
predominantly Hispanic voting district within DISD.
The trick here may be to remove
Seagoville (a majority White voting area)
from its attachment to Pleasant Grove (predominantly
Hispanic).
The other trick
would include Seagoville along with newly acquired Wilmer-Hutchins
area into Ron Price's district. Price probably won't like an attempt to have
Seagoville in his district since it will add an abundant of White voters.
On the hand, Price may see this as an
opportunity to create another secure Black seat on
the DISD board.
These two dudes may want the same
thing. Watch for them
to either work together or independent of each other to put the screws on the
large block of White voters in Seagoville who are
attached to DISD.
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He is not concerned about Mexican Nationals and their children who are here
legally or school children from "Tejano" families. Parents from either
Hispanic groups would have nothing to fear when talking with a school principal.
DISD parents who are in this country illegally, would have just as much to worry
about talking with a Spanish-speaking principal than a principal who cannot
converse in Spanish. Here's a clue for Joe Thug May, illegal aliens are
not going to be spending a lot of time in the office of their schoolchildren's
principal.
Before we get deeper into how Joe Thug May is using his school board seat to
practice his religion of racism, don't forget what he wrote in an illegal
campaign mailer he sent out AGAINST me in the 2003 council race. It is was
not FOR Steve Salazar. It was AGAINST a White woman who is not fluent in
Spanish daring to run for office in a predominantly Hispanic district. The
following statement appears on the flyer "Our community must be represented by
someone who speaks Spanish and understands our citizens and neighborhoods".
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At least I am fluent in one
language, which is more than you can say for Joe Thug May. Can you imagine
what would happen in this city if a White elected official said that only a
White person who is fluent in English can represent any particular neighborhood
in Dallas? That 2003 incident is covered more in
Righting Wrongs.
Flash forward to 2005, and now the racist Joe Thug May would require all
principals in schools with 50% of students "classified as Limited English
Proficient" to be able to converse in Spanish. How many parents ever meet
with the school principal unless their kid has a discipline problem? Most
parents meet with their children's teacher(s). Even elementaries in the
DISD are too crowded for principals to have much time for meetings with parents.
This is outrageous.
"Anti-immigrant hostility" in elementary school is just bogus. With
Hispanic children making up a larger and larger percentage of the DISD student
population, "anti-immigrant hostility" would have to be coming from Texas-Born
Hispanic (Tejano) school children and African-American school children because
there aren't enough White kids in the district to matter.
Joe Thug's idea of forcing his preferred language on school teachers and
principals is proof positive that he has no business on the School Board.
It was purely a political effort for him. His running for the DISD School
Board was never about educating chilren.
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DISD trustee will seek vote on Spanish rule for principals
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
By VANESA SALINAS / Al Día |
A Dallas schools trustee says he'll
call for a vote next month on his proposal to require
principals of some schools to learn Spanish, even if he receives negative
feedback from parents or principals.
The trustee, Joe May, said the
requirement is needed so principals can communicate with Spanish-speaking
parents and get them involved in their children's education.
"If you have a
parent in a school district who was concerned about anti-immigrant hostility
that their children were being subjected to in the school, and he wanted to
go and discuss the problem with the principal in the privacy of his office,
can he do it if the principal doesn't speak the language?" Mr. May
said ...
Mr. May proposes amending the job
requirements for principals of DISD schools so that if they apply for or are
doing the job in a school where more than 50 percent of the students are
classified as Limited English Proficient, or were formerly considered as
such, to learn the language spoken by the majority of the students.
... Sylvia Fuentes, principal of Obadiah Knight
Elementary and president of the Association of Hispanic School
Administrators, said people she has spoken with would rather see a policy in
place that encourages them to become bilingual, not one that requires them
to do so.
... Mr. May said his plan would require principals
to understand and carry on conversations with parents who don't speak
English. .... |
When the real educators present
data disputing his claims, Joe Thug May says disputes their findings and once
again provides proof positive of what a total racist he is.
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Bilingual principals not vital, study says;
DISD: Survey shows test scores unaffected by
language leaders use
June 17, 2005 By TAWNELL D. HOBBS / The
Dallas Morning News |
At a time when some community leaders
want all principals of mostly Hispanic schools to be bilingual, a DISD
analysis suggests that wouldn't have much effect on student performance.
"There is no statistical significant
difference between the performance of schools with bilingual principals and
the schools without bilingual principals, in either reading or math,"
according to a June 10 Dallas Independent School District memo.
Trustee Joe May
is pushing a proposal that principals at campuses where at least half of the
students have been in limited English proficiency programs must learn the
language spoken by the majority of the students.
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The plan, brought to trustees last month, has been a
contentious issue.
... "The extent to which a principal speaking
Spanish contributes to these factors for improving student achievement in
[predominantly limited-English proficient] schools is unknown," the
assessment states.
Mr. Brashear said he would not
support the plan when it comes to the board in August.
... "This appears on the surface a tactic to get more
Hispanic-speaking people in leadership positions."
But Mr. May disputes the district's
data.
"I have to think that my idea has
never been embraced by the administration to begin with," he said. "I will
be countering that data; I will be presenting my own."
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This slumlord who has survived
on an "make work" job in a federal bureaucracy has no education background to
challenge Hinojosa's administration. He only ran for the school board so
he could play with redistricting again. The guy is an idiot savant who
absolutely cannot tie his shoe laces unassisted, but he can look at population
numbers. He has no respect for Dallas neighborhoods or for the city
itself. He needs to go back to Laredo as soon as possible.
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DISD open to W-H merger;
Dallas: Trustees amenable to
plan – as long as it doesn't cost them
Thursday,
7/07/05 by JOSHUA BENTON / The
Dallas Morning News |
Dallas schools
officials seem ready to take on the students of Wilmer-Hutchins – as long as
it doesn't cost the district any money.
... Wilmer-Hutchins is in financial crisis, and
its state-appointed board of managers has determined that the district
cannot afford to operate its schools this fall. The district has been trying
to hand off its students to someone else. Lancaster schools rejected the
offer last week.
Although no formal decision was made at
Thursday's meeting, Dallas leaders said they were more willing to help.
... Dallas is being asked to accept the transfer
of Wilmer-Hutchins' 2,650 or so students. Wilmer-Hutchins would remain open
as a shell of a district.
... Wilmer-Hutchins High School – whose leaky roof
delayed its opening last fall – would remain open for one more year, serving
only grades 10 through 12. Everyone else would be bused to Dallas.
... A merger would help Dallas financially in a
number of ways. It would boost student enrollment, which has been stagnant
or declining in recent years. It would also help lower Dallas' property
wealth per pupil, which has been creeping higher in the last decade. If it
goes too high, Dallas could be forced to send local property tax revenue to
the state.
... One voice of criticism was Dallas trustee Joe
May, who said he was concerned that adding Wilmer-Hutchins students might
divert Dallas from its primary task, the education of
Spanish-speaking recent immigrants. He said students transferring in
from Wilmer-Hutchins would have access to more resources than
Spanish-speaking children in his neighborhood.
... His concerns were by echoed by trustee Jerome
Garza.
"We talk about bringing in other
children, and while I empathize with that, at the end of the day,
we need to make sure this does not negatively affect
the children we were elected to represent."
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Eight of Dallas' nine board members were present Thursday
night. The only exception was Lew Blackburn, who in addition to being a
Dallas trustee is also a Wilmer-Hutchins employee. Dallas officials said he
will not be allowed to vote on any matters relating to Wilmer-Hutchins.
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Would someone tell me when the
DISD's primary task became "the education of Spanish-speaking recent
immigrants"? Last I heard, recent immigrants can't vote. How
long is going to be before a group of non-Spanish-speaking taxpayers sues the
DISD for Joe Thug May's racist comments?
What if one of the Black Trustees said, the primary task of the DISD is to
educate Black kids and all other ethnicities come second? That very well
may be how Hollis Brashear and Ron Price feel, but at least they have the good
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Betty
Culbreath:
I had no idea Joe May was such a fool.
As a DISD taxpayer,
I do not think DISD's priority should be "recent Spanish speaking
immigrants" as said by Joe May in the last DMN article.
Last time I checked Mexico had a
duty to educate it's own kid's and DISD should collect a fee from the
Mexican Government for all illegal students.
NAFTA should provide the
regulations for such collection of FUNDS.
Maybe JOE MAY will lead the
effort for that tax revenue generation.
It sure will help our district.
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| What about educating children of Spanish-speaking Tejanos who have lived in
barrios for two generations without having to become fluent in English?
What about educating children of Spanish-speaking Tejanos who are fluent in
English and want their children to get the same attention as the children of
recent immigrants? |
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James Northrup:
The Wilmer Hutchins School District was a a nice rural
district until a large chunk of Southern most
Dallas was attached to it. Then,
it went down the toilet.
Bringing it back into the DISD has
some precedent, but no upside for DISD, and precious little for W-H.
W-H really belongs with a rural, suburban district like
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If Joe May only represents recent immigrants, who voted for him? Recent
immigrants (and frequently long-time residents) are not citizens and not
eligible to vote. Joe May is not someone who can see the big picture.
His vision is so narrow that he cannot see beyond his own bigotry.
We know Joe May is an idiot, but he has confirmed what many who have dealt with
him have known for a long time. He is a racist and a bigot.
When did the DISD's primary task stop being "the education of all children"
within its jurisdiction?
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