Wrong example
Posted: 03/23/2009
The naming of the new high school in Grand Terrace has struck a nerve with many citizens, and rightly so.
The Colton Joint Unified School District board's actions have once again sent the message that those in a position of power can do whatever is on their agenda.
Although this is frustrating, the statement that offended me was from San Bernardino County school board member Gil Navarro. Mr. Navarro stated "we need more role models for Latinos who are a majority of this district."
First of all, Mr. Navarro, all children need strong role models. As the grandparent of four grandchildren, three half-Mexican and one half-Japanese, I am very upset with this clearly biased statement. If you would like children to have good role models, then perhaps the school board members should mirror that in their actions.
The votes were clearly for naming the school Grand Terrace High School. In ignoring this, the school board's example is that those in power can do whatever you want.
PEGGY REAGAN
Grand Terrace
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I agree! Being hispanic, I am also offended. Why must we put a color or race to a role model?? This comment makes me ill, and coming from a "hispanic" himself, Mr. Navarro...comments like that make people like you sound very ignorant. The role model I look up to and would like my children to look up to, is someone who is true to themselves, their families, community, faith, and most of all THEIR WORD!!
"OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE"!!
This poor choice was clearly
"OF THE BOARD BY THE BOARD AND UNDENIABLY FOR THE BOARD".
The Board made a very poor attempt of doing the "PC thing", when they asked for "suggestions" on naming Grand Terrace's long-awaited and very much embraced High School, then insult an entire community by not even listening to the majority, and then to take it even further...shove it in everyone's face by putting the votes in print that GTHS actually won, AND STILL, gave it a name that they had already made up in their minds LONG before this "submit your suggestions" was requested. Oops...no so "PC" afterall! WoW...with no disrespect to Mr. Abril...if people like that make these kind of decisions and disrespect an entire community,I question the character of their models.
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