And hold the money
It looks like the boys are having a tough time in Loudon County Virginia. It seems that the locals are not so keen on Gulen’s boys opening up their latest proposed charter school in Loudon County. Can’t say that we blame them, but it seems like they might be shifting the focus a little too much to the right on religion and not enough to the left – which is the American piggybank via taxpayer funding.
Okay, we get it that there might be some underlying concerns about the alleged Islamic agenda, but from our point of view – it has always been – and will always be – about the money, and more specifically, the allocated education tax funds that the boys manage to so masterfully manipulate and launder into Gulen’s pockets.
Interestingly, the boys have somewhat strayed from their typical modus operandi, which is to infiltrate lower socioeconomic inner city areas where their activities go pretty much unchecked and unnoticed. In fact, it’s in those areas that they’ve gained their strongest foothold and been able to spread their tentacles to other parts of the country.
So what are they up to now? They had to know that in a more affluent area, like Loudon County that the citizens were going to raise a few eyebrows at the prospect of the Gulenite’s credo: “We’re smarter than you and your teachers and can do a better job, so give us your unfettered tax money.”
Hopefully the hysteria over the possibility of Islamic influence will not overshadow the more substantive issues surrounding this band of merry thieves; like immigration fraud, extortion, money-laundering, retaliation, and discrimination – all of which present the makings of Rico Act violations – a complex recipe of organized crime disguised as a tasty pie of benevolence and dusted with religious influence, and one that leaves a very bitter aftertaste in the mouths of American taxpayers.
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School Board Listens To Sharp Opposition To Charter School
Wed Nov 21, 2012.
School Board Listens To Sharp Opposition To Charter School 2 comments
Posted on November 20, 2012 by Danielle Nadler
The contentious buzzwords spoken in a board room at the Loudoun County Public Schools administration building Monday evening made it sound like a discussion on national defense. Jihad, Sharia law and counter terrorism were terms repeated by several speakers during the first public hearing on the Loudoun Math and IT Academy, a proposed charter school under consideration by the School Board.
Of the 22 people who came to the microphone to address the charter school committee, 14 opposed the school and most used strong language to warn the School Board of an alleged connection between the Loudoun County parents who are behind the charter application and a modern Islamist movement.
One speaker, clergyman William Cook, threatened School Board members would suffer eternal consequences if they approved the charter school. He read an excerpt from Matthew 18 that states it would be better for a person to drown with a millstone around his neck than to cause a child to sin.
“If for any reason you expose [students] to content that might cause them to stumble, all mighty God will hold you accountable to it, regardless of your religious affiliation—even if you are an Atheist,” Cook said. “If you determine it is in your best interest professionally to put your children at risk in this matter, rest assured it will be your neck around which the heavy millstone of retribution will be hung.”
His comments prompted a couple in the audience to gasp. By a show of hands, three-fourths of the roughly 50 people in the room indicated they were opposed to the school. Several speakers and others in the audience have become familiar faces to the School Board members, making appearances at almost every public LCPS meeting in recent months.
The proposed Loudoun Math and IT Academy is designed to house 575 sixth- through 12th-grade students, and focus on an individualized approach to education that includes after-school programs, frequent field trips and free tutoring. The application made it through the first round of approvals in June when the Virginia State Board of Education OK’d it. The Loudoun Math and IT Charter School Committee, made up of School Board members Jeff Morse (Dulles), Jill Turgeon (Blue Ridge) and Brenda Sheridan (Sterling), is charged with reviewing the application and presenting a recommendation to the full School Board next month.
The charter school is modeled after Chesapeake Science Point charter school in Anne Arundel County, MD, which is where those against the application say the connection begins between the applicants and a Turkish cleric named Fethullah Gulen, who preaches modern Islam and is believed to be behind a large movement of charter schools across worldwide.
A pastor who taught at a charter school in Uzbekistan told the committee members, that he witnessed results of what’s called the Gulen movement first hand.
“There was no religious teaching in the classrooms but there was recruitment for religious teaching outside of the classroom. Those [students] who really showed potential were taken to Turkey and trained in their religion and came back as jihadists,” he said. “I am very concerned that the same foundation is trying to establish a school here.”
The few who came to speak in support of more rigorous science, math and technology education in Loudoun’s public schools were taken aback by the outpouring of opposition to the Loudoun Math and IT Academy. Rachel Sergeant, also a vocal opponent of the school, handed out pamphlets to each member of the audience with a list of bullet-pointed reasons to deny the charter application.
“I’ve changed my views a little bit since sitting here,” Tamiko Burnell of Ashburn told the committee. She said she drives her son Joshua, a student at Belmont Ridge Middle School, to Maryland so he can take part in clubs that delve deeper into math and science. “Loudoun does not have enough STEM… I urge you to check into the program to see if this is for us. It may not be, but we need something that will make Loudoun students more competitive.”
One of the last speakers, Mary Porter Green told the committee she was disappointed the evening’s conversation focused little on education.
“I thought the debate was going to be about the importance of science education,” said Porter Green, founder of Curiosity Zone in Broadlands. She added that the charter school would provide students who are not able to get into Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology or the Academy of Science an opportunity to delve deeper into more science, math and technology courses. “The debate here tonight is great; it’s the American way for everyone to have their say. I would just hope that the community doesn’t get caught up in one part of the debate because the information I have seen to date does not persuade me to pull my support for this school.”
Throughout the charter school’s review process, those who oppose it have been more visible, by far, compared to those in favor of the school. Morse, chairman of the Loudoun Math and IT Charter School Committee, said last week that he wants to ensure both sides of the debate—those for and those against—are heard.
“I’m making sure all parties are equally involved and equally updated as information becomes available,” he said.
All of the questions the committee receives on the application, as well as the answers to the questions, will be posted at www.lcps.org/Page/100311.
The committee’s next public hearings are set for 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, and Thursday, Dec. 6, at the LCPS Administration Building, 21000 Education Ct., in Broadlands. It is scheduled to make a final recommendation to the full School Board Dec. 13.
Okay, we get it that there might be some underlying concerns about the alleged Islamic agenda, but from our point of view – it has always been – and will always be – about the money, and more specifically, the allocated education tax funds that the boys manage to so masterfully manipulate and launder into Gulen’s pockets.
Interestingly, the boys have somewhat strayed from their typical modus operandi, which is to infiltrate lower socioeconomic inner city areas where their activities go pretty much unchecked and unnoticed. In fact, it’s in those areas that they’ve gained their strongest foothold and been able to spread their tentacles to other parts of the country.
So what are they up to now? They had to know that in a more affluent area, like Loudon County that the citizens were going to raise a few eyebrows at the prospect of the Gulenite’s credo: “We’re smarter than you and your teachers and can do a better job, so give us your unfettered tax money.”
Hopefully the hysteria over the possibility of Islamic influence will not overshadow the more substantive issues surrounding this band of merry thieves; like immigration fraud, extortion, money-laundering, retaliation, and discrimination – all of which present the makings of Rico Act violations – a complex recipe of organized crime disguised as a tasty pie of benevolence and dusted with religious influence, and one that leaves a very bitter aftertaste in the mouths of American taxpayers.
http://www.leesburgtoday.com/news/school-board-listens-to-sharp-opposition-to-charter-school/article_ad791ff2-3350-11e2-b530-0019bb2963f4.html
School Board Listens To Sharp Opposition To Charter School
Wed Nov 21, 2012.
School Board Listens To Sharp Opposition To Charter School 2 comments
Posted on November 20, 2012 by Danielle Nadler
The contentious buzzwords spoken in a board room at the Loudoun County Public Schools administration building Monday evening made it sound like a discussion on national defense. Jihad, Sharia law and counter terrorism were terms repeated by several speakers during the first public hearing on the Loudoun Math and IT Academy, a proposed charter school under consideration by the School Board.
Of the 22 people who came to the microphone to address the charter school committee, 14 opposed the school and most used strong language to warn the School Board of an alleged connection between the Loudoun County parents who are behind the charter application and a modern Islamist movement.
One speaker, clergyman William Cook, threatened School Board members would suffer eternal consequences if they approved the charter school. He read an excerpt from Matthew 18 that states it would be better for a person to drown with a millstone around his neck than to cause a child to sin.
“If for any reason you expose [students] to content that might cause them to stumble, all mighty God will hold you accountable to it, regardless of your religious affiliation—even if you are an Atheist,” Cook said. “If you determine it is in your best interest professionally to put your children at risk in this matter, rest assured it will be your neck around which the heavy millstone of retribution will be hung.”
His comments prompted a couple in the audience to gasp. By a show of hands, three-fourths of the roughly 50 people in the room indicated they were opposed to the school. Several speakers and others in the audience have become familiar faces to the School Board members, making appearances at almost every public LCPS meeting in recent months.
The proposed Loudoun Math and IT Academy is designed to house 575 sixth- through 12th-grade students, and focus on an individualized approach to education that includes after-school programs, frequent field trips and free tutoring. The application made it through the first round of approvals in June when the Virginia State Board of Education OK’d it. The Loudoun Math and IT Charter School Committee, made up of School Board members Jeff Morse (Dulles), Jill Turgeon (Blue Ridge) and Brenda Sheridan (Sterling), is charged with reviewing the application and presenting a recommendation to the full School Board next month.
The charter school is modeled after Chesapeake Science Point charter school in Anne Arundel County, MD, which is where those against the application say the connection begins between the applicants and a Turkish cleric named Fethullah Gulen, who preaches modern Islam and is believed to be behind a large movement of charter schools across worldwide.
A pastor who taught at a charter school in Uzbekistan told the committee members, that he witnessed results of what’s called the Gulen movement first hand.
“There was no religious teaching in the classrooms but there was recruitment for religious teaching outside of the classroom. Those [students] who really showed potential were taken to Turkey and trained in their religion and came back as jihadists,” he said. “I am very concerned that the same foundation is trying to establish a school here.”
The few who came to speak in support of more rigorous science, math and technology education in Loudoun’s public schools were taken aback by the outpouring of opposition to the Loudoun Math and IT Academy. Rachel Sergeant, also a vocal opponent of the school, handed out pamphlets to each member of the audience with a list of bullet-pointed reasons to deny the charter application.
“I’ve changed my views a little bit since sitting here,” Tamiko Burnell of Ashburn told the committee. She said she drives her son Joshua, a student at Belmont Ridge Middle School, to Maryland so he can take part in clubs that delve deeper into math and science. “Loudoun does not have enough STEM… I urge you to check into the program to see if this is for us. It may not be, but we need something that will make Loudoun students more competitive.”
One of the last speakers, Mary Porter Green told the committee she was disappointed the evening’s conversation focused little on education.
“I thought the debate was going to be about the importance of science education,” said Porter Green, founder of Curiosity Zone in Broadlands. She added that the charter school would provide students who are not able to get into Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology or the Academy of Science an opportunity to delve deeper into more science, math and technology courses. “The debate here tonight is great; it’s the American way for everyone to have their say. I would just hope that the community doesn’t get caught up in one part of the debate because the information I have seen to date does not persuade me to pull my support for this school.”
Throughout the charter school’s review process, those who oppose it have been more visible, by far, compared to those in favor of the school. Morse, chairman of the Loudoun Math and IT Charter School Committee, said last week that he wants to ensure both sides of the debate—those for and those against—are heard.
“I’m making sure all parties are equally involved and equally updated as information becomes available,” he said.
All of the questions the committee receives on the application, as well as the answers to the questions, will be posted at www.lcps.org/Page/100311.
The committee’s next public hearings are set for 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, and Thursday, Dec. 6, at the LCPS Administration Building, 21000 Education Ct., in Broadlands. It is scheduled to make a final recommendation to the full School Board Dec. 13.
