San Diego School District

[Non-Typical Solutions]

This is a good read, if you are looking to throw up!!!!

 

 

 

San Diego School Board Fans Flames of Immigration Debate, Some Residents Say

By Joshua Rhett Miller

- FOXNews.com

 

San Diego's school board is fanning the flames of the national immigration debate, some residents of the California border city complained Wednesday after the Unified School District passed a resolution the night before condemning Arizona's controversial new immigration law.

 

 

The resolution, which passed unanimously, restricts school employees from traveling to Arizona on official business.

 

The school board eliminated a travel warning proposed by President Richard Berrera that would have cautioned parents and students about traveling to Arizona due to fears they might be targeted by racial profiling or harassment. Instead, the board voted 5-0 to develop a policy "restricting travel and participation in conferences" in Arizona.

 

Sheila Boling, a senior clerk who has worked in the district's facilities, planning and construction department since 2001, said she attended the hearing to voice her disapproval of the resolution, which condemns the Arizona law as unconstitutional and urges state lawmakers to repeal it.

 

"I attended because I felt the school board needs to be focused on what they're paid and hired to do -- which is to focus on education," Boling told FoxNews.com. "They have no authority or jurisdiction on matters in another state and they certainly have no authority to give directions to parents....

 

"This simply was not the time and place to do this," said Boling, whose three adult children graduated from the district. "People have enough concerns on their plate, like whether they're going to have a job or if there will be enough teachers in the classroom.

 

"They do not need to be further divided by focusing on something that is neither here nor there at this time in San Diego."

 

No formal complaints by parents of current students had been received in connection to the resolution as of early Wednesday, district spokesman Jack Brandais told FoxNews.com. Approximately 20 people attended the hourlong evening hearing.

 

Roughly 75 percent of the San Diego Unified School District's 130,000 students are "people of color," and 44 percent are Hispanic, according to the resolution, which reads:

 

"The law undermines fundamental civil rights and civil liberties, and poses a special threat to people of color who live in and travel through Arizona. Public officials in Arizona are asserting that undocumented immigrants can be identified by the clothes they wear and the way they speak, and are using stereotypes as proxies for race which will inevitably lead to racial profiling."...

 

"We need humane and workable solutions, not an irrational and irresponsible response to our broken immigration system, and we need solutions that help our state and our country move forward together rather than divide us apart."

 

"We elected the school board of this city to educate our kids," Rev. David Brown told San Diego's kusi.com. He could not be reached for further comment.

 

Another opponent of the resolution described it as "divisive," the website reported.

 

Meanwhile, Kathi Pastor, a teacher who attended the hearing, applauded the resolution.

 

"Many say we should not get involved in Arizona's law," said Pastor, as reported in the San Diego Union-Tribune. "The Civil War was fought about other states' laws."

 

Arizona's new immigration law, signed by Gov. Jan Brewer last month, will allow law enforcement to question anyone on their immigration status if stopped for reasonable cause when it goes into effect in July. Several officials in the Obama administration, including Attorney General Eric Holder, have criticized the law.

 

 

[wackycouesaddict]

trust me its not just there it here in mesa as well

[Red Rabbit]

SD also, to illustrate their mindset.

http://www.citizenlink.org/videofeatures/A000012237.cfm

[Snapshot]

Considering it is California.......... A state that has Arnold as a govenor

 

The whole boycotting of Arizona is nothing but a childish initiative, motivated by the ignorant and narrow minded people of the U.S.

 

If you look at the last names of the majority of people who are crying the loudest ........................?

 

They can all stay the h#ll out of Arizona for all I care.

 

[Broken Wheels]

Pretty hilarious coming from a frickin state that is so far worse off then Arizona BECAUSE of their lack of focus on illegal immigration! I have relatives in San Diego that are appalled by their states pathetic government and actually pleased that Arizona took matters into their own hands! I heard on KFYI this morning that when the idiot Eric Holder was asked if he had even read the Arizona law he said "no" which in itself isn't surprising but the fact that he was honest about it was! Too bad we can't boycott California from coming into our state as they are probably the second worst drivers (NYC still #1) ever, plus they are "just like totally" different people! (oops, is that considered profiling, or judging?)

[cactusjack]

For the last 10 years my family has vacationed at least once a year in California, sometimes 3 times. Every time we have been there we have been amazed at the number of Arizona plates we have seen at the beaches and parks (ie Disneyland, Lego Land, Sea World,.....) I would make an uneducated guess that Arizonans visit California probably 20 times more than Cali-idiots come here. That being said, why would you start a boycott fight with one of your customers. I kinda see it like starting a rock fight with your neighbor when you have a house full of picture windows and he lives in a mud adobe. Just sayin

[ghost hunter]

Boycotting each other is not the best way to do things, especially when it is obvious you either didn't read the law (as US Attorney General Eric Holder just admitted) or you didn't understand what you just read.

 

It is sad that the very first person to ask for and did in fact beat the boycott drum was our own US Rep. Raul Grajalva from Tucson. Asking to boycott your own state? What a representative.

[Snapshot]

Raul Grijalva has always had just one agenda, and it has nothing to do with representing Arizona as a whole.

 

I will let you figure out what it is!

 

Hopefully the door will hit him hard in the backside on his way out!

[wackycouesaddict]

hes not going any where any time soon he has more then plenty support