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Reachtanna Chill Chainnigh i gKansas

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Saturday December 10, 2005 01:13author by Daithí Mac Lochlainn

…as an Washington Post:

"Most of the time, 16-year-old Zach Rubio converses in clear, unaccented American teen-speak, a form of English in which the three most common words are "like," "whatever" and "totally." But Zach is also fluent in his dad's native language, Spanish -- and that's what got him suspended from school.

'It was, like, totally not in the classroom,' the high school junior said, recalling the infraction. 'We were in the, like, hall or whatever, on restroom break. This kid I know, he's like, 'Me prestas un dolar?' ['Will you lend me a dollar?'] Well, he asked in Spanish; it just seemed natural to answer that way. So I'm like, 'No problema.' '

But that conversation turned out to be a big problem for the staff at the Endeavor Alternative School, a small public high school in an ethnically mixed blue-collar neighborhood. A teacher who overheard the two boys sent Zach to the office, where Principal Jennifer Watts ordered him to call his father and leave the school…”

Seo é an fáth nach thuigeann cuid mór de muintir na tíre seo faic faoi fhormhór an domhain...agus fáth eile go bhfuil an Bushín sa Teach Bán... agus go bhfuil cogadh san Iaráic.

Múinimís na “múinteoirí”!:

Seo é seoladh na scoile….

Ms. Jennifer Watts
Endeavor Alternative School
2540 Junction Road
Kansas City, Kansas 66106
Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá

…agus an seoladh ríomhpoist: [email protected] ...

…agus an uimhir faics: 001-913-288-3691

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author by ciarrog eilepublication date Sat Dec 10, 2005 21:26author email acareybarr2 at aol dot comauthor address author phone 2486492226

A Dhaithi ... agus uile,

......agus - ' anam- a' - Deabhail - ----

Ca as a thagann aon leigheas d'aon rud domhanda as an dobhrain Daithi O Lochlainn seo??

- M'anam gur leath-mhic neamh-tuiscinte e fein!!

B'fheidir gur ann duine coitianta cointeann, duine bunta i mi-thuiscint na n-oileanin agus pleidhciocht phobailin an neamh- dhomhnaiocht a glacann moran amadain na h-Eoraipe ar an dhomhain mhoir laethuil inniu.... Domhain gur ann ina ghlacann pairt furmhor mor de chine na Staid Aontaithe, go h-airithe inniu. Inniu -

mar gur inniu is an- phairt do gach uile duine le pudair tuiscinte acu

anall on oideachais agus daonnacht agus staid foighneach

an fhior-"dhomain mhoir "

- Anois.... A mhuintirin bhig-inteannach de phobaillin an oileainin Bhanba.....

B'fhearr go mor gabhadh oraibh leigheas ar an phleidhciocht seo agus gabhadh foighd eigeann, ar a laighead, ar bhur chine aon-inteannach a mbionn ina gconai thar aigean agus iad i ndairire agus

GO DEIMHIN AG MAIREADH MAR PHAIRT AN-TUISCINTE DEN DHOMAIN MHOIR SIN

ar a bhfuil beagainin nios mo na cail amhain agat/ agaibh air, fite fuaite mar ata sibh in bhur dhomhain briste beag og ansin

in aice le "domhain" na Breatainne agus "domhain" na h Eoraipe, agus gan moran flaithiuileacht agaibh fein le daoine as an Aifric na tirthe eile, - gan moran agaibh foghlamtha on dhomhain mhoir seo ach amhain pudair na n-ainmhi - pudar chun nios mo airgid a bhailiu agus gluaisteain nios faisiuntacha agus tithe nua nios ufasacha a cheannach agus a thogadh ar bhur shoin feineach fein.

Nil aon leigheas ar bith i bhur gcaoi searbh amadanach neamh-thuisceantach a dheanann coip laithreach ar gach rud uafasach a mbiodh ar siul fado anseo agus ata le blianta anuas anois caillte againn.... gach rud a bhfuil anois go coitianta in aiteacha eile - aiteacha aineolacha? - mar Dubai agus Singapore.... mar Eirinn??

Nach fior gur nios gaire don aineolas sibh fein cheana, mar sin, na daoine mi-adhuil neamh-chumhachtaca airgid ach la-chumhachta tuiscinnte ata thar Aigean anseo i dtir "an Bhushin" go foillin beag laithir??



- Tuairimin de chine bheag agus tuairimi beag- inteannach a fheicim san saigheas ud caint....

Agus caint gan crionnacht fein ann e..nios measa go mor na aon pleidhciocht neamh-domhanda eile anois ceillte i measc moran moran moran na daoine an-mhaithe gur fiu eisteacht leo anseo thar Aigean Atlantach.



....Cuir ceist ar do mhodh thuiscint fein, a deirim, ....agus,

i ndiaidh sin, b'fheidir go mbeidh smidin ceill agat la eigin.... Agus do chomhluadar beag -intennacha, id' phobaillin beag?

Is mise,

Ama Ni Chiarain

... as Michgan, USA, agus as Iorrais in iar-Mhaigh Eo.

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author by Rí na Gaeilgepublication date Sun Dec 11, 2005 13:57author address author phone

Cuirean sé an bata scoir i gcuimnhe dom...

author by ciarrog eilepublication date Sun Dec 11, 2005 21:06author email acareybarr2 at aol dot comauthor address 3165 Alpine, Troy, MI 48084author phone 2486492226

....agus cuireann se aineolachas

beag-inteannach na phobaill ini Eireannacha ....faroar gearr......

i gcuimne domsa agus don "dhomhain

mhoir" sin...... Aineolachas airithe

Eireannach e sin, saigheas d'aineolais

searbh ata iompaithe thar lear ag spailpini

na leath-oideachais .....Is rud

faiteach e seo.....agus rud a feidir leamh i

ngach sort nuachtan......

Ach anseo.....Ta "Neamhspleachas"

INDYmedia curtha amu ag spailpin

leath-intinne as "Nua Eabharc" - sin e

New York, an dtuigeann sibh??.....

spailpin searbh in a chonai ansin agus

faic le ra aige ach lag-misneach

a scaipeadh maidir lena h-aineolas fein

mar Eireannach i measc

cine domhanda..... ACB

author by Duinepublication date Mon Dec 12, 2005 14:20author address author phone

Buíochas le Dia, tá gach rud i gceart anois.


School district apologizes to teen over Spanish flap

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A school superintendent apologized to a student who was suspended last week for speaking Spanish at school.
Zach Rubio, a 16-year-old high school junior, was sent home from the Endeavor Alternative School on Nov. 28 for talking in Spanish at lunch and later in the day. Principal Jennifer Watts sent him home and suspended him through the following day.
District officials said Watts told the boy's father the suspension was a direct result of his speaking Spanish. Superintendent of Schools Bobby Allen reversed the suspension within hours of learning about it from the father, the district said.

author by ciarrog eilepublication date Mon Dec 12, 2005 23:09author email acareybarr at aol dot comauthor address author phone 2496492226

....Agus E Fein ag labhairt gach uile teanga

ar fud an domhain !!

- Ach ..... ceard faoi Mac Lochlainn ??

An bhfuil "Beag-Dia " na dteangain

lena pheannluaidh d'fheineachas fein-

cionnolaithe ina thost anois??

Feineachas na fir bige a bhi air!? -

Sin e, chomh maith, feineachas na tire bige searbha....

Agus gan neamhspleachas da laghad

in iul ins an modh smaointe a mbionn acu

ach an oiread.

Go raibh bua go deo beirthe

ag an mor-inteannacht....i Nua Eagharc agus i ngach ait eile ina saolaionn daoine daonna nach bhfil gan locht.



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