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Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Mark Sanchez & School Board may send ROTC Packing


Tonight the San Francisco Board of Education will debate whether they should ban Junior ROTC programs from San Francisco schools because of the Pentagon's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. A resolution introduced by Board of Education member Mark Sanchez, (shown in the photo) calls the Department of Defense policy "unjust, indefensible, unintelligent, state-sanctioned act of homophobia."

A ban on Junior ROTC would effect 1,625 students from Balboa, Burton, Galileo, Lincoln, Lowell, Mission and Washington High Schools. In a San Francisco Chronicle report, which can be read here, Sanchez described the resolution in these words: "If the military said, 'You can't be openly Jewish or you can't be openly Catholic,' I don't think we would have stood for it this long," he said. "It's an ethical issue more than anything, and if we stand by our policies of nondiscrimination, we should be able to stand by this policy as well."

Fellow board member Eric Mar said, "A discriminatory institution like the U.S. military really should not be running programs in our school district."

The resolution will go to committee and likely be voted upon in late June. For more information on the San Francisco Board of Education or this resolution, please email Esther Casco, the Board's Executive assistant at:

Board of Education meetings are held every 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month in the Bryer Board Room at the San Francisco Unified School District Office, 555 Franklin Street, San Francisco.
on Tuesday, May 23, 2006

1 comments:

said...

Thanks for the posting Sam Spade.
For the full language of the resolution and some background info go to
http://edjustice.blogspot.com/2006/05/san-francisco-schools-coalition-urges.html
or the main page at
http://edjustice.blogspot.com

Tuesday, May 23, 2006 11:13:00 PM PDT

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