Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy
Who was Tarek ibn Ziyad?
http://islamonline.com/news/newsfull.php?newid=621
Brothers in Islam! We now have the enemy in front of us and the deep sea behind us. We cannot return to our homes, because we have burnt our boats. We shall now either defeat the enemy and win or die a coward's death by drowning in the sea. Who will follow me?"
The soldiers gave a mighty cry of "Allahu Akbar" and rushed towards the enemy like a whirlwind driving everything with them.
Since the ACLU claims they are for individual rights I looked into what they are doing. So far this is all I can find, if it were Christians doing this (went back to schools held in churches) they would have sued someone by now.
ACLU-MN
http://www.aclu-mn.org/home/news/aclumnopensinvestigationof/
http://www.aclu-mn.org/downloads/LettertoTarekAcademy.pdf
So I did somemore checking into other links linking to and from well, you know how the internet is!
Muslim American Society
http://www.masnet.org/aboutmas.asp
And someplace I found the whole mess associated with this person, who HAD to swear in on a Koran but is a liberal who is fighting for gay rights! Simple amazing!
Congressman Kieth Ellison
Vidio at C-Span at U.S. House
Asad Zaman
http://www.masnet.org/discussion_profile.asp?id=43
Asad Zaman has been a Active Muslim American Society Member for a long time. He serves on the MAS Minnesota Chapter Council. He also serves on the board of Masjid Al Rahman. He is one of the Imams at the MAS Center, and is the principal of Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy.
Asad was elected as a national delegate to the Democratic Party from the
state of Minnesota. He serves on the Minnesota State Democratic Platform Commission.
Metro charter school accused of teaching Islam
Hmmmm.... Do you realize that pretty soon little Islam believing boys and girls will be taking out mats at 1:30 going to the back of the classroom in our Public Schools, and praying towards Mecca. And guess what the ACLU and other organizations will make sure that they maintain every right to do so. Why? Because it is protected in our constitution.
Twisted truth. Can a pre-scholar or any scholar pray over cookies and milk? YES! As long as they don't demand, other children join in, or totally disrupt the classroom. I have been PREACHING this for years. Has anyone listened, obviously only the WRONG people! Anyway, as Christians you have RIGHTS.
Below are the questions parents are to check into when looking for a Charter School. Therefore, I went along those guidelines to see where I would want my Grandchildren to attend. Below the government site and recommendations, is the beginning of my homework (self assigned) and what I discovered.
When and why was this school created?
Does the school have a specific focus?
Who is the charter holder, or the group that created the school?
How does the school select teachers? Are the teachers certificated?
Is this the permanent location or facility for the charterschool? If not, will the school be moving to another location in the near future?
http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/index.asp
http://www.ed.gov/programs/charter/index.html
http://www.mncharterschools.org/
Academia Cesar Chavez
http://www.cesarchavezschool.com/board/index.php
Cesar Chavez
Born: March 31, 1927
Died: April 23, 1993
Cesar Chavez was a Mexican American labor activist and leader of the United Farm Workers. During the 20th century he was a leading voice for migrant farm workers (people who move from place to place in order to find work). His tireless leadership focused national attention on these laborers' terrible working conditions, which eventually led to improvements.
http://www.nclr.org/
Academia del Pueblo (ADP) is an after school program designed by the National Council of La Raza.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=13863
National Council of La Raza lies the real agenda of the La Raza movement, the agenda that led to those thousands of illegal immigrants in the streets of American cities, waving Mexican flags, brazenly defying our laws, and demanding concessions.
http://www.cesarchavezschool.com/board/ACC%20Annual%20Report%2005-06.pdf
The desired outcome is a bilingual student population that is aware and knowledgeable of the Latino culture and its contributions and influence in American society.
Lessons from the National Council of La Raza Math and Science curriculum were also integrated into the Science Museum of Minnesota’s curriculum.
Academy of BioScience
http://www.academyofbioscience.com/
All students at Academy of BioScience receive Spanish instruction.
Achieve Language Academy
http://www.achievemn.org/
Achieve has a racially and ethnically diverse population, with the majority speaking English as a second language. All students have an individualized learning plan that is developed cooperatively between parents, student, and Achieve teachers.
Adam Abdulle Academy
http://www.aaa.k12.mn.us/
The mission of the AAA is to maximize opportunities for children through educational innovation that will ensure their full development as healthy and positive contributors to the greater community.
Links: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
To graphic for young readers that can imagine what they read-The neck was swinging around wildly in the air, spraying streams of blood, looking like an out-of-control fire hose. The crocodile was gone, but so was the Brachiosaurus' head - the crocodile had won the tug-of-war. It was now raining blood.
Charlie had tripped on a worm-infested, decaying corpse. He couldn't take his eyes off the grisly remains. Leather-like skin studded with vermin hugged the arm and leg bones that were sticking out of the ragged clothes.
Gang promotion-"You're scared," taunted Claude. "You're too chicken to even try to climb on it. It's just like a giant cow - I bet you're scared of cows, too. I bet you can't climb up to its head. If you do, you can be in our group." There was a round of snickering when he said that last part. Charlie was humiliated,
Whole sections on Astronomy, Dinosaurs, Mammals, but not reptiles ect.
Some modern-day mammals include people, apes, cats, bats, dogs, tigers, mice, moose, aardvarks,
ADAM ABDULLE ACADEMY (4135-07) FARHAN HUSSEIN. 415 16TH AVENUE SW , ROCHESTER , MN 55902-0000 ... MOHAMED OSMAN. 1821 UNIVERSITY AVENUE W , SUITE N360. ST. ...
Ascension Academy Charter School
Total per pupil expenditures This District: $20,828 State Average: $8,718
Academy for Sciences & Agriculture
Halo Night is group of students (and sometimes even teachers) playing Halo 3 over a LAN connection with multiple X-box 360s.
Halo is a Mature (17+) rated shooter that involves a hero, Master Chief, defending the human race from, a group of alien races, the Covenant.
We engage each other in multiple game settings such as Slayer (Free for All), Team Slayer, Capture the Flag, and other game varients.
http://www.agacademy.com/se3bin/clientgenie.cgi?schoolname=school393&statusFlag=goGenie&geniesite=170&myButton=g5plugin&db=g170_b759
President: Stationed by the rising sun
"The rising sun is the token of a new era in agriculture. If we will follow the leadership of our president, we shall be led out of the darkness of selfishness and into the glorious sunlight of brotherhood and cooperation."
Reporter: Stationed by the flag.
"As the flag covers the United States of America, so I strive to inform the people in order that every man, woman and child may know that the FFA is a national organization that reaches from the state of Alaska to Puerto Rico and from the state of Maine to Hawaii."
Advisor: Ms Worm, Ms. Pint, Mr. Kromann Stationed by the owl
"The owl is a time-honored emblem of knowledge and wisdom. Being older than the rest of you, I am asked to advise you from time to time, as the need arises. I hope that my advice will always be based on true knowledge and ripened with wisdom.
Augsburg Academy of Health Careers
http://www.afa.tc/
Prepare future health care providers for our pluralistic society
The Academy offers a special welcome to students who are first generation immigrants, who are the first in their families to go on to college, or who are members of communities that are significantly under-represented in the health professions. It also welcomes students who may be behind in their academic career but who are ready to make a serious effort to excel from now on.
Aurora Charter School
http://www.auroracharterschool.com/
Mission: celebrates the gift of Latino culture, representing Latino Immigrant children and the children of immigrant parents.
Avalon School
http://www.avalonschool.org/blog/
AVALON combines (1) a college-prep focus, (2) interdisciplinary seminars, (3) project–based learning, and (4) a technology component. This will be complemented by extensive training in ethics, conflict resolution, interpersonal/life skills, and active citizenship and community service.
At AVALON, middle school and high school are viewed not just as a time for preparing for college or a vocation, but as a vital and important component in each student’s life. Students must be meaningfully engaged in every class, project and endeavor in a quality way.
AVALON will:
• Create a content–rich curriculum with a global emphasis, stressing depth over breadth and drawing upon the passions and interests of its students.
http://www.avalonschool.org/blog/?page_id=79
A Day in the Life of an Avalon Student - Student 3
Journal
March 2nd, 2006
To Do List:
Wakeup
Lay in bed and wonder about the fate of the world…particularly as it obtains to me and finding the energy to get out of bed.
http://www.avalonschool.org/blog/?page_id=77
A Day in the Life of an Avalon Student - Student 1
A Day in the Shoes of an Avalon Middle School Student
I am an eighth grade student this year in Avalon’s middle school program.
In advisory, about 18 or so students sit in a circle with either Anna or Monessa, who each have their own advisories. It is important for anyone considering or just looking at Avalon to know that in our circles, there is no beginning and no end. They are meant to make each student feel equal and comfortable.
Beacon Academy
http://www.beaconacademy.com/
Our Mission: To provide Twin Cities families with a proven, rigorous and content-rich curriculum integrated with sequential Spanish language instruction.
http://www.birchgroveschool.org/
Sponsor: Volunteers of America
http://www.voa.org/
Volunteers of America was founded in 1896 by social reformers Ballington and Maud Booth.
the Core Knowledge Sequence
http://www.coreknowledge.org/CK/about/index.htm#4s
What is Core Knowledge?
An Idea
First Grade: World History
Early Civilizations: Ancient Egypt
Geography: Africa, Sahara Desert
Importance of the Nile River, floods and farming
Pharaohs: Tutankhamen, Hatshepsut
Pyramids, and mummies, animal gods, Sphinx
Writing: hieroglyphics
Second Grade: American History
Civil Rights
Susan B. Anthony and the right to vote
Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights and human rights
Mary McLeod Bethune and educational opportunity
Jackie Robinson and the integration of major league baseball
Rosa Parks and the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the dream of equal rights for all
Cesar Chavez and the rights of migrant workers
http://www.blueskyschool.org/
BlueSky Online Charter School was the first 100% online charter school in Minnesota serving students in grades 7-12.
Bluffview Montessori School
http://www.bluffviewmontessori.org/
Mission Statement:
The mission of Bluffview Montessori Charter School is to create a Montessori learning culture throughout the school and in all of its activities; live the Montessori philosophy of education and apply its learning methods and materials in every classroom and with each student; and form strong learning bonds between students, teachers, parents, the school and community.
Programmatic Focus:
Montessori
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/montessori/method/method.html#I
The situation would be very much the same if we should place a teacher who, according to our conception of the term, is scientifically prepared, in one of the public schools where the children are repressed in the spontaneous expression of their personality till they are almost like dead beings. In such a school the children, like butterflies mounted on pins, are fastened each to his place, the desk, spreading the useless wings of barren and meaningless knowledge which they have acquired. [Page 15]
It is not enough, then, to prepare in our Masters the scientific spirit. We must also make ready the school for their observation. The school must permit the free, natural manifestations of the child if in the school scientific pedagogy is to be born. This is the essential reform.
No one may affirm that such a principle already exists in pedagogy and in the school. It is true that some pedagogues, led by Rousseau, have given voice to impracticable principles and vague aspirations for the liberty of the child, but the true concept of liberty is practically unknown to educators. They often have the same concept of liberty which animates a people in the hour of rebellion from slavery, or perhaps, the conception of social liberty, which although it is a more elevated idea is still invariably restricted. "Social liberty" signifies always one more round of Jacob's ladder. In other words it signifies a partial liberation, the liberation of a country, of a class, or of thought.
Cedar-Riverside Community School
http://www.crcs-school.org/
the school serves a population overwhelmingly from immigrant families, with a current enrollment of 108 students who come from homes where English is not the first language.
City Academy High School
sponsorship of the College of St. Catherine, in St. Paul, Minnesota
Clarkfield Area Charter School
http://www.clarkfieldareacharter.com/
Core Knowledge
Multiple Intelligence” theory
Community School of Excellence
http://www.communityschoolofexcellence.org/
Mission Statement
Community School of Excellence provides a community-based approach to education that emphasizes high academic standards, integrates Hmong language and culture into its curriculum, and promotes parent and community ownership of the school.
Vision
Community School of Excellence (CSE) parents, staff, students, and community will be committed as a team to provide a quality education for all students to achieve high academic expectations, and connect globally to Hmong around the world.
Community of Peace Academy
CPA Parent Talk Principl's corner January 2008:
graduating class of 2001 painted mural "depicting the values that we teach here." Hands coming together in peace encircled by doves. surrounded by the tiger and dragon (powerful symbols of courage).
Pillager Area Charter School
Expeditionary Learning
http://www.outwardbound.net/about/philosophy.html
In an anything goes society, soon the society will go. As we see above just about anyway to teach our children in the way they should not be going is being done, just as has been done in our public schools. What can we do as Christians?
We could begin schools in our churches.
We could home school from our computers, and teach our children the wrongs of society, as we go over the lessons with them, (Example: http://www.blueskyschool.org/)
We could combine efforts of churches in our areas to begin charter schools with our values.
We could use abandoned Public School buildings to start up Charter Schools with good ethics, based on the commandments of God.
We could begin to band together to bring our children back to the basics of reading and math, to ensure that our children are no longer dumbed down but as wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Today and as always this is what the enemies of God are doing they are passively saying peace, peace, when there is and will be no peace. Only the death and destruction of our nation, and the final blow to what our founding fathers set up for US.
---"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --"
