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School officials in Southern California said they will not take action against a history teacher who called for a Mexican Revolution in the United States.
Ron Gochez, history teacher at Santee High School, made the inflammatory comments at a La Raza rally at UCLA approximately three years ago. Video of the speech recently surfaced on YouTube and has created a firestorm of controversy. The video has since been removed.
“Where we now stand is stolen, occupied Mexico,” the history teacher told the crowd.
“We are revolutionary Mexican organization here,” he said in the video. “We understand that this is not just about Mexico. Its about a global struggle against imperialism and capitalism At the forefront of this revolutionary movement is La Raza. We will no longer fall for these lies called borders. We see America as a northern front of a revolutionary movement Our enemy is capitalism and imperialism.”
Robert Alainz, director of communications for the Los Angeles Unified School District confirmed to FOX News Radio that the teacher in the video is an employee of their district.
”It was given at a rally at UCLA and the teacher in question was apparently providing comments or a speech during the rally as an individual and not as a representative of the school sytem,” Alainz said.
Gochez railed against what he called, “Frail, racist, white people” and “our enemy is capitalism and imperialism.” However, Alainz said the school teacher will not be disciplined for what he said.
“We looked at the speech over and over again,” he said. “We found no violation in district policy.”
Alainz said the school district’s legal department reviewed the video and they took into account the teacher was giving the speech on his own time and “not as a representative of the school system.”
The principal of Santee High School said they’ve received calls from around the world inquiring about the speech. However, he declined to officially comment on the matter.
As far as the school system is concerned, the teacher’s comments, no matter how inflammatory, are considered free speech.
I'll ask the obvious one: If the employee involved was white, calling for war on Mexicans, would the school district be equally comfortable with his remarks?
At no time did he call for a war against whites. You are clearly taking the speech out of context.
I don't like that statement but the fact remains that teachers are human and are allowed to have views away from the school setting- I'd just like to have seen him say the opposite as a Mexican citizen- I think it would have gone over as well with his government.
This sounds like treason! Where is Homeland Security? Why isn't he being questioned regarding his desire to see the over throw of our government.
It is extremely clear why the unions demand tenure, so incompetent, controversial or malfeasant teachers cannot be fired easily.
Well, it's kind of ironic that in the country that he hates so much that he's free to say these things, but if he were to say the same kinds of things about Mexico IN Mexico he'd be in a horrible dirty cell being violated by other prisoners on a regular basis. I wonder, if Mexico is so great in this guy's eyes, why isn't he there? He can cross over illegally and see how THEY treat illegals there.
I thought Educators (along with other groups of people who work for state and federal govs) have to sign a "Loyalty Oath" in which requiring a public employee to promise to uphold and defend the Constitution and oppose the illegal overthrow of the government. What about that California your state is not exempt from this Loyalty Oath!!!!!!!!!!!!
Once again, completely irresponsible reporting. Way to go, Fox. This is a "La Raza" rally because the person stated "viva la raza" at the end of the clip?
Yes if it was a "white" person saying we need to stand up and start a revolution against Mexicans we would not only have been terminated but civil charges would have been brought up on them. This person may have whatever beliefs he has but he is not to persuade young, vulnerable minds with his beliefs. It was not on campus, but it was still a school event when the teacher was there with his students. Children get suspended for fighting OFF campus all the time, so why are the teachers actions(which are much more severe than kids fighting) deemed as acceptable? We have school Vice Principals sending our AMERICAN students home for wearing the colors and the flag of the country we are living in and this teacher abusing his influence to "start a revolution" against "WHITE" people! This is becoming so ridiculous that the only way to make things happen are to do them yourself and to make sure you uphold what is right and just because our systems set to "protect" us are failing at doing so!
Dr. Chavez and the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools have known about Mr. Gochez's violations of ethical school practices for over two years and have done nothing about it. There is record of these abuses and plenty of emails to prove it. He uses his classroom as a podium for hate and his racist agenda, the school as a recruiting ground and has had noncalendared ( a violation) meetings and public events on campus, and he has harrassed Jewish teachers on campus and Dr. Chavez and PLAS have taken no action against Mr. Gochez. Don't listen to the lies, MR. Gochez should not be allowed to teach in any public school and should have his credential cancelled by the CTCC.
It sounds like Mexicans are looking for some kind of territorial race war. Guess what ASSHOLES, You have come to the right place. True Americans will rise up and kick your mexican ass. When we are done you will have more respect. Listen up Mexicans. Do you know why mexico is so poor. It is because your race is not smart enough. You depend on americans to pay for your health care and education. For people who want respect you sure go about it the wrong way. As I stated earlier. You are not very smart people.
Do not send your kid to a public school in the U.S. unless you truly don't give a damn about him/her.
I a scared for me and my son, we are white and this teacher is teaching hate. Even if its not in class he is still teaching it to anyone that will listen to his rants. Then he says that he was talking about the white min. men not all whites, from what I saw it was BS! From what I saw he was talking about all whites. Why is everyone (government and schools) afraid to stand up to any race except whites. We have to hide our feelings, we have to work harder since we have no colleges, award shows, groups and so on. If we do form a group we are racist. Why is that we can't be proud of who we are and where our families came from? I a truly afraid for my life and my sons life. Is there anything that can be done to stop hate mongers like this man?
If Gochez is indeed teaching hate in his classroom, the administrators at his school CAN discipline him. But they will have to go in and evaluate him formally; fill out evaluation forms; meet with him and his union leaders; keep on documenting what he's saying in class that they witness; send him to seminars and conferences to learn how to teach properly; document all the help and assistance, remediation, etc. that they are giving him; and give consequences in what is called "progressive discipline," which goes from verbal warnings to suspensions and eventual termination. This is a process that takes about 1-2 years, IF THE SITE PRINCIPAL has the full support of school district administrators in doing all this.
This teacher should not be teaching our children, if these are his belief's, you can bet they are being carried out in his teachings. I don't think he should be fired because it was on his own time, but I think he should be watched closely so that the right thing can be done soon in the future.