May 29, 2012

Defend Santee High School Teacher Ron Gochez!

Dear Friends of Justice,

Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party strongly urges you to participate in an important rally on Wednesday, May 30, at 7:00 am in front of the Santee Education Complex located at 1921 South Maple Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011 to defend longtime community organizer and union teacher, Ron Gochez, from being removed from the school.

We have worked with Ron for several years to defend immigrant workers and their families from racist vigilantes and police checkpoints. He has worked at Santee for the past 7 years where he is the MEChA advisor on campus and is the only one who teaches Ethnic Studies classes. Ron has never received a negative teacher evaluation and his students scored higher on the California Standardized Tests than most of the students at Santee.

Santee is run by Mayor Villaraigosa's "Partnership for L.A. Schools”. The Partnership is trying to displace him with the excuse that it’s due to the budget cuts. The real reason is for his political activism inside and outside the school. The Partnership has already made special arrangements to keep other teachers who were being displaced and who have less seniority than he does. Ron knows for a fact that they CAN keep him at Santee - they simply do not want to. Ron is running for L.A. City Council in the same district that Santee is in and where Democratic Party candidates who are running against him are part of the Mayor’s machine.

The good news is Ron isn’t going without a fight! So bring your picket signs, noise makers and friends and raise your voices to defend this radical teacher.

Other ways you can support Ron are:

1) Email the Partnership and let them know Ron should remain at Santee.

Dr. Sergio Flores

sergio.flores@partnershipl?a.org



Ryan Smith

Ryan.Smith@partnershipla.o?rg

Patrick Sinclair

Patrick.Sinclair@partnersh?ipla.org

2) Send a message to the Partnership on Facebook!

http://www.facebook.com/?PartnershipLA

3) Call the Partnership for L.A. Schools and leave them messages as well.

(213) 201-2000

In Solidarity,

Yuisa Gimeno, Los Angeles Radical Women

Muffy Sunde, Freedom Socialist Party, Los Angeles Branch

He should be fired. Teach the children and keep your fucking stupid political shit to yourself. He is a great poster boy for why unions have no place in public schools.

Link to a youtube copy of a clip about the situation. In Spanish.

Y U NO>?

Show some stats on the so called high scores. There is no evidence that his students scored "higher" anywhere except in articles where he said they were higher. So once again, keep your stupid lefty politics to yourself and teach the children like you were hired to do.

Isn't this, after all an attack against the teacher's union by trivializing and degrading the work of [ I became familiar with certain buzz words like 'lefty' as a sign of scripted dialogue from our spook 'friends' who try to use this wire for their own purposes, long ago ] our public employes even under the constriction of federal mandates, who try to do their job?
Sorry, but the Bull Shit meter pegged and broke off when I saw the script being played.
Education has become indoctrination not learning.
Don't blame the teachers. They actually try to do their jobs