Get Your Head Out of the Baklava

Are You Kidding Me?

This website has been receiving some feedback about its contents, and we just want to clear up a few items of "concern."

Let's be clear about one thing -- this website was not published by a "hate group, a fired Utah Board Member (who by the way had the guts to come forward), or people that just plain hate Turks and/or Islam" -- as was alleged by some of the respondents.

The website's purpose from its inception, and as it continues, is to expose corruption in 120 plus charter schools in the United States that are being run by Turkish nationals -- plain and simple.

It's about money-laundering, violating United States EEOC laws and immigration laws, all the while using federal and state funding to do so. You remember, that is the money that is supposed to be going to the kid's education and is instead being used to pay visa fees and Tuzuk monies.

And you can whine all day long about us not having evidence and that the information provided on this website is "manufactured or fictional," but the fact remains, it is true and it can be documented.

Yes, we will agree with you on one count -- that is is simply incredulous that they have been able to pull this ruse for over 10 years, and that our government has not stopped them -- yet.

So take a break from all that free baklava they are feeding you and ask yourself a few pertinent questions --

1)Why are there only Turkish men running the schools (Directors, Assistant Directors, Deans of Academics, and Business Office Managers)?

2) Why are the majority (90%) of the school board members in all of the 120 plus schools Turkish and/or men.

3) How is it that with the unemployment rate as high as it is, that these charter schools cannot find "qualified" American teachers and administrators and instead have to sponsor so many foreign visa holders to teach in the United States?

4) Gee, how do you suppose all of the different stories and reports on this website keep cropping up from different parts of the country? Do you really believe that one "disgruntled" employee is that omniscient and powerful?

5) Do you think that maybe -- just maybe -- this all might be true and that the reason they do bring in so many foreign (the majority Turkish) teachers in is because they are in fact getting up to 40% of their salaries, all of their tax returns, and teacher's retirement funds; and that is a pretty solid investment on their part?

So here's our advice, get a grip, step away from the baklava, and take a reality check. Because, guess what -- it is happening and yes, we have allowed it to happen in our own backyard, and shame on us. But shame on you for being so naive that you cannot believe it is possible and instead, want to chalk it all up to a "hate propaganda."

Isn't that the same mentality the world had when the Nazi's exterminated millions of Jews --- thinking that, "It cannot be happening - - people don't do those things to other people?"

So continue to do nothing -- that's always easier than acknowledging the truth and actually having some integrity and courage to do something about it.

“Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.”

Robert F. Kennedy