Stacy Brandt has produced another slanted article to favor Jim Gibson's next election run.
Stacy falsely attributes the divide in our district to a political divide between conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats. Brandy uses the false narratives of our local angry detractors of public education. This false narrative is meant to confuse the uniformed and provide political cover for our opponents.
Our angry ANTI public education friends who run for school board refuse to fully answer questions about their views of science, sex education, public education in general etc. They do not like to come to public forums at all and when they do they used canned answers to carefully hide their views and true agenda.
We know from bitter experience that they want to end all public education in the United States.
Dr. Stephen Guffanti one of their heroes who was voted off our VUSD school board in 2008 actually belonged to an organization that had that goal. Here is a quote from an article in the North County Times, Guffanti "said he has signed a proclamation put forth by The Alliance for Separation of School and State that calls for the dismantling of government-funded school system."
The writer, title and first sentence of the article:
School board candidate backs end to public education
Thursday, October 19, 2000 10:00 PM PDT ∞
MELANIE MARSHALL
Staff writer
VISTA ---- A local doctor running for one of three open seats on the local school board is supporting a national movement to end public education in America.
Read it here: http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2000/10/20/export19941.txt
Another of their elected school board members,John Tyndall, worked for a "little god" creationist cult offshoot of mainstream Christianity called the Institute for Creation Research. To gain employment there, Tyndall had to take an oath that he believed the universe to be less than ten thousand years old.
There are sedimentary records in Utah that have six million yearly layers one on top of the other with no breaks, yet Tyndall had to deny this and all other physical evidence on earth and from the starlight above which proves the great age of both the universe and the earth. He had to affirm in an oath that he believed that the universe was really just made to look old by a "god" that was just fooling with us. See below for a John Tyndall quote.(1)
Another of their supported candidates, Mary something,( darn her last name slips my mind. will check my files later) who claimed to work as a nurse said in a public forum (in 1994) at the former Vista community center near Wildwood Park that she wanted to restrict information to VUSD students in sex ed classes because "anal sex leads to unwanted pregnancies." We have video showing her saying this. It was distributed to school sites and the public before the election. She lost narrowly. She has now moved out of our school district. (Later note: During the campaign her mother suddenly died which interrupted her campaign efforts. She had a booth at the Octoberfest her in Vista as did the VTA. Why can't I think of her last name? She had big blondish, dried out, straw looking hair. She was about forty or so at the time. Just cannot get her last name at the moment.)
Yet still these angry ones are trying to hide their real views. They pretend the controversy in the district is other than it is. Jim Gibson their only school board member still on the VUSD board seems to have great power to influence the when and what in articles in the North County Times. He is rightly concerned that he might lose this November. So we have the article by Stacy today. Read the article here:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_3c0dc7fe-3b28-5c6c-9d0d-b95189d8d262.html
Below are my comments after the Stacy Brandt's latest article. While I sympathize with his need to write what he is told to write to keep his job, I cannot agree with the ethics that allow such manipulation of him and the real facts about VUSD.
Poor Stacy had been forced to write another slanted article to favor the angry folks who attack our fine school district for no good reason.
The problems in Vista Unified have nothing to do with Republican versus Democrat or conservative versus liberal. That is a phony story line that our angry friends use to try to gain sympathy for their attacks on good teachers and a fine education system. The truth is that I and many, many other Republicans in the district including many business owners oppose the destructive agenda of these angry few. We were here the last time they were in charge. We remember what they do with power.
The fight in VUSD is actually between the vast majority of voters who support the existence of public education and its FACT based curriculum and a few angry folks who detest FACT based public education.
The small extremist minority of angry ones have been responsible for a great deal of evil and harm to VUSD, our community at large and especially to our children in our excellent schools.
The angry ones fought against all four desperately needed school bonds. All four of those bonds 'won' the vast majority of VUSD voter support. Results that would have been a landslide victory in a presidential election were a loss in the school bond election requiring two thirds vote. These "losses" resulted in costing the taxpayers of VUSD millions of dollars and the students years and years more of terrible overcrowding in our schools.
I started working to pass a school bond in VUSD when my oldest child was in first grade. We did not get a bond (Prop O) passed until my youngest child was in this second year of college--a decade and a half delay.
My children and tens of thousands of other VUSD children of that era never had a chance to attend schools without having to use dozens of temporary trailers located in school parking lots rather than school classrooms.
When finally after years of horribly overcrowded schools a fourth bond received over two thirds and passed, the two board members supported by the angry ones denied the voters the high school land that would have allowed construction on our third high school to be started in 2002 for an estimated cost of about 50 million dollars. Today that long delayed high school on an inferior and more expensive piece of land is not yet finished and is projected to cost almost 100 million dollars. Their obstructionism cost at least five extra years of overcrowded high schools classrooms in our district.
VUSD had and still continues to have two of the top three largest student populations sizes in our two existing high schools out of ALL the high schools in San Diego County according to the San Diego CIF.
When our angry friends conducted a stealth campaign bymis-using our local churches to get a three member board majority elected in 1992, our district became a national laughing stock due to their actions. They had a three person VUSD school board majority from 1992-94 board. That board made headlines across the nation for denying life saving information to VUSD students in sex ed classes and pushing an anti-science agenda. Read more here:
http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/vista-ca-schools
A couple of headlines from that archive:
"Vista Schools OK Sex Education Program With Religious Theme" and "Vista Board OKs Teaching of Creationism"
or the New York Times archives here:
http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?frow=0&n=10&srcht=s&query=creationism+Vista&srchst=nyt&submit.x=13&submit.y=7&submit=sub&hdlquery=&bylquery=&daterange=full&mon1=01&day1=01&year1=1981&mon2=
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John Tyndall ANTI science VUSD school board member from 1992-1994, below is one of his own quotes about his beliefs. He made this comment in an Princeton interview found here:
http://www.princeton.edu/~artspol/conferences/Binder.pdf
(1)John Tyndall said: "Ultimately, I think there is a philosophy…of socialism that is coming through our educational system. That, I think, we are successfully educating a generation that will vote in socialism…I think we are creating kids to become dependent on the system. The lip service is out there that we want them to be “independent” but, in actual fact, I think we are putting them back in a dependency situation. A dependency on the government, the state, for direction in their lives. And taking away from the family unit, which is where the direction should come from"
The interviewer than summarizes Tyndall's views on science when the Princeton interview wrote:
"Helping to advance this general political agenda for socialism, according to Tyndall, is the teaching of evolution. In the absence of any instruction challenging the idea of natural selection, or suggesting that the universe may have been divinely created, children are losing their faith in authority—all authority: religious leaders’, elders’, and, especially, parents’. When children lose their respect for their parents’ and other elders’ guidance, children and young adults are at the mercy of secular institutions, and irreparable damage is done—all at the hands of a “theory” that has never been proven."
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