Gulen Movement Two Faces Have I

Turkish Police Chief arrested after Exposing Gulen Movement

Gulen Charter Schools in the USA

Gulen Movement-Anonymous : Open Letter to the World's Journalists. (Mirror & Tweet)

Another Gulen Tool-US Congressman Charlie Dent: Many Americans think Turkey’s leadership in Middle East will be constructive

US Congressman Charlie Dent: Many Americans think Turkey’s leadership in Middle East will be constructive

Turkish Atheist Student against the islamic Headscarfe (ENGLISH SUBTITLE)

Gulen Bad Guy

Gulen Goose Network rusya ve türkmenistandan fetullah gülen okullarına baskın

Gulen Charter Schools Even Dimtri knowsthe GooseNetwork

Gulen Comedy.yezit götveren

Gulen Goose Network, Goose Dance and Olympaid

Gulen Goose Network, boy meets Goose!

Gulen Schools Worldwide: Gulen Movement and the jailed Turkish Journalists ...

Gulen Schools Worldwide: Gulen Movement and the jailed Turkish Journalists ...: Ahmed Sik, jailed Turkish journalist and author of "Imam Ordusu" (Imam's Army) http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2011/11/16/jailed-aut...

Gulen Schools Worldwide: Gulen Movement and the jailed Turkish Journalists ...

Gulen Schools Worldwide: Gulen Movement and the jailed Turkish Journalists ...: Ahmed Sik, jailed Turkish journalist and author of "Imam Ordusu" (Imam's Army) http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2011/11/16/jailed-aut...

Fethullah Gülen Amerika'da petrol buldu

Gulen Charter Schools- 2nd Grader forced to scrub toilets at Harmony Science Academy

News stations and print articles bountiful about this shameless punishment of 2nd graders. 

Harmony Science Academy has their Turkish Janitorial businesses that have the contracts to clean the schools, why were these poor children forced to clean toilets?

http://www.khou.com/home/Outraged-mother-says-daughter-forced-to-scrub-school-toilets-for-tardies-131196859.html

by Jeremy Desel / KHOU 11 News

khou.com

Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:58 PMHOUSTON -- Parents of some students at the Harmony Science Academy Charter School in Northwest Harris County say their children were forced to clean restrooms as punishment.
Monica Lane said her daughter, Meagan, a fourth grade student at the school, was punished to Saturday school for getting five tardies. However, Lane said Meagan did not get not extra time in the classroom, but got time in the restroom.
"Yeah it was gross," said Meagan Dunn.
She was not alone, her mother said.
"Kids, as young as second grade, were scrubbing the toilets on Saturday," Lane said. "The baseboards and walls, and the door handles and the floors."
Meagan said the cleaning duties were done using just a disinfectant wipe and no gloves.
Administrators at the Harmony Science Academy issued a statement on the matter saying:
"Never under any circumstances is any student required or expected to clean the restrooms at any of our facilities."
The school said it encourages students to do chores to help them to care for their community. The school admitted that students did clean restrooms, but said it was just an inappropriate joke from a teacher taken literally by some students.
"How would you feel as a parent if your child was made to scrub the toilet without any kind of gloves, without any parent knowledge," Lane asked.
Beside the obvious cleanliness issues, Meagan’s parents wondered about the lost educational opportunity.
“That could have been a time for tutoring or going over some of the class work or something like that," said Lane.

http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2011/10/harris-county-school-forced-kids-to-scrub-toilets-as-punishment-mom-says/

http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/214162/58/Fourth-grader-forced-to-scrub-school-toilets-for-tardies

HOUSTON -- Parents of some students at the Harmony Science Academy Charter School in Northwest Harris County say their children were forced to clean restrooms as punishment.

Monica Lane said her daughter, Meagan, a fourth grade student at the school, was punished to Saturday school for getting five tardies. However, Lane said Meagan did not get not extra time in the classroom, but got time in the restroom.

"Yeah it was gross," said Meagan Dunn.

She was not alone, her mother said. 

"Kids, as young as second grade, were scrubbing the toilets on Saturday," Lane said. "The baseboards and walls, and the door handles and the floors." 

Meagan said the cleaning duties were done using just a disinfectant wipe and no gloves.

Administrators at the Harmony Science Academy issued a statement on the matter saying: 

"Never under any circumstances is any student required or expected to clean the restrooms at any of our facilities."

The school said it encourages students to do chores to help them to care for their community. The school admitted that students did clean restrooms, but said it was just an inappropriate joke from a teacher taken literally by some students.

"How would you feel as a parent if your child was made to scrub the toilet without any kind of gloves, without any parent knowledge," Lane asked.

Beside the obvious cleanliness issues, Meagan's parents wondered about the lost educational opportunity.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/10/06/Punished-students-cleaned-toilets/UPI-13751317941474/

Updated Thursday, Oct 6 at 9:47 AM

Gulen's Pacifica Institute gives free trip to Turkey for Idaho politicians, one with a "Drunken" past.

Senator McGee has a somewhat checkered past.  Taking a free trip to Turkey by Gulen's Pacifica Institute will surely boost his reputation.  Idahoans vote him OUT!!!

http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/09/24/1811178/why-are-idaho-politicos-doing.html#disqus_thread

Kevin Richert: Why are Idaho politicos doing the Turkey trot?

 - Idaho Statesman

The good news: Several Idaho legislators were unhurt this week in a deadly bombing in the Turkish capital of Ankara.

And no, the lawmakers were not traveling overseas on the state taxpayers’ nickel.

But that still leaves some nagging questions. What exactly are Idaho lawmakers doing touring Turkey in the first place? And what does a nonprofit group hope to accomplish by squiring Idaho legislators around for 10 days?

There are — in life and in politics — no freebies.

This tour was bankrolled by the Pacifica Institute, a group of Turkish-Americans seeking “to develop social capital — the creation and extension of positive connections within and between disparate social networks.”

To that end, whatever it means, the group is picking up lodging, meals and in-country travel for at least six lawmakers and some spouses. The lawmakers paid for their own airfare.

The details are sketchy, since this is not an official state trip, but here’s who we know was on the tour: Senate President Pro Tem Brent Hill, R-Rexburg; Sen. Joe Stegner, R-Lewiston; Sen. John McGee, R-Caldwell; Sen. Michelle Stennett, D-Ketchum; Sen. Diane Bilyeu, D-Pocatello; and Rep. Donna Pence, D-Gooding. (Of course, McGee hasn’t found the time to talk about his June travels through a Boise subdivision in search of “the promised land,” and the drunken-driving guilty plea that ensued. So this gives him one more odyssey to explain.)

Getting beyond the development of “social capital,” is there tangible capital to develop here? Probably. Turkey is the world’s 15th-largest economy, according to a 2011 Senate resolution promoting Idaho-Turkish relationships, though Turkey didn’t even make Idaho’s Top 25 export markets list in 2010. But this isn’t a trade mission designed to boost Idaho’s $5.15 billion export industry.

This is a ... what, exactly? In an email Friday to our Dan Popkey, Hill described the trip as a chance to visit Turkish schools, universities and families, and meet with “many government, education and religious leaders.”

Something perfectly legal yet oddly hinky. There’s a reason why most newspapers resist accepting junkets paid by industry; the appearance of undue influence is unavoidable. As rules of thumb go, politicians could do worse.

A PROMISING PANEL

Give the University of Idaho credit. After stonewalling in the aftermath of the Aug. 22 slaying of graduate student Katy Benoit of Boise, the university has been doing a lot of the right things.

The university has released some records and has gone to court seeking to release records pertaining to Ernesto Bustamante, the former assistant psychology professor who is believed to have shot Benoit 11 times before taking his own life.

The U of I recently named a three-member panel to review its safety and security procedures. And the panel includes a home-run pick, Linda Copple Trout, a former chief justice of the Idaho Supreme Court. She gives this review instant credibility.

I still believe the U of I has a lot to answer to. I want to know whether it ignored warning signs about Bustamante, who openly discussed his psychological disorders in class. (And, as I’ve said before, I have a personal interest: My oldest son, a U of I senior, took a class from Bustamante.)

Let’s hope this panel, which includes administrators from the University of Montana and Oregon State University, asks the right, tough questions.

REX RAMMELL REDUX

Former U.S. Senate and gubernatorial candidate Rex Rammell will face only a misdemeanor charge of battery stemming from a confrontation on his Idaho County property.

The Lewiston Tribune had reported Rammell would face a felony — which, if it stood, would preclude the perennial candidate from seeking office again. But when a formal complaint was filed last week, the charge was a misdemeanor.

The article weaves a bizarre tale of events leading up to Rammell’s arrest. He had let William Shira’s older son, daughter-in-law and two children live in a house Rammell leased. Instead, Rammell told the Tribune’s Kathy Hedberg, about 15 people who moved in without his permission.

On Sept. 8, a confrontation turned physical. Rammell tried to make a citizen’s arrest, charging Shira with trespassing, but a deputy charged Rammell with battery. All this comes after Rammell and a business partner moved the Shiras’ belongings off the property and, according to the Tribune, blew up a mine the Shiras claimed was full of gold.

Somewhere, Yosemite Sam must be proud. © 2011 Idaho Statesman

Kevin Richert: 377-6437

Driver crashes into gate at Harmony Science Academy

Gulen Gets a HEAD of the Class, what an Example he teaches

Three Stooges Erdogan, Fethullah Gulen and Gul

How Gulen Charter Schools Finance Turkish Government

Gulen Charter Schools Censor The Internet, hides behind playing victim while repressing fellow Turkish citizens

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-255631-caps-islamophobia-report-raises-some-new-questions-by-aydogan-vatandas*.html

A study on Islamophobia in the US, released by the Washington-based Center for American Progress (CAP) on Friday, highlights how a small group of donors fund misinformation experts who promote Islamophobic sentiments and how their misinformation spreads through the media and grassroots organizers like Eagle Forum.

The research was also reported that these misinformation experts are also manufacturing a smear campaign against the Gülen movement, inspired by the teachings of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, in the US. The extensive study, titled "Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America," was conducted through the collaborative efforts of prominent experts like Wajahat Ali, Eli Clifton, Matthew Duss, Lee Fang, Scott Keyes and Faiz Shakir. According to the research, five experts generated the misinformation and materials used by political leaders, grassroots groups and the media. Those experts are: Frank Gaffney at the Center for Security Policy David Yerushalmi at the Society of Americans for National Existence Daniel Pipes at the Middle East Forum Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch and Stop Islamization of America Steven Emerson of the Investigative Project on Terrorism The research revealed that these misinformation experts have been very influential on Islamophobia groups in 23 states, exemplified by Brigitte Gabriel's ACT! For America, Pam Geller's Stop Islamization of America, David Horowitz's Freedom Center and existing groups, such as the American Family Association and the Eagle Forum. According to the report, this small network of people is driving national and global debates that have real consequences on the public dialogue and American Muslims. The research also shed light on the key foundations that endorse these misinformation experts by channeling $42.6 million between 2001 and 2009 to their efforts to spread hate and misinformation. In the research, these top seven key foundations are listed and ranked according to the amount of founding as follows: Donors Capital Fund Richard Mellon Scaife Foundation Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Newton and Rochelle Becker Foundation Russell Berrie Foundation Anchorage Charitable Fund and William Fairbrook Foundation. The Donors Capital Fund, which is listed at the top in the report, contributed $21,318,600 to groups promoting Islamophobia from 2007 to 2009. The research revealed that this money went to the Middle East Forum, Clarion Fund, Investigative Project on Terrorism and the David Horowitz Freedom Center. One of the significant parts of the research claims that these misinformation experts have served as source for Anders Breivik who shot and killed 77 people in Norway on July 22. In the research, it was reported that Breivik cited Robert Spencer, one of the anti-Muslim misinformation scholars, and his blog, Jihad Watch, 162 times in his manifesto. Another member of this "network of Islamophobia" in America is David Horowitz and his Freedom Center website. Spencer's frequent collaborator Pamela Geller and her blog, Atlas Shrugs, were also mentioned 12 times by Breivik. According to former CIA officer and terrorism consultant Marc Sageman as quoted in the report, the writings of these anti-Muslim misinformation experts make up “the infrastructure from which Breivik emerged.” Now, it is important to make a distinction and say that even though some of these misinformation experts are of Jewish decent, like David Yerushalmi for example, not all Jewish organizations are in the same alarmist line. For example, the Anti-Defamation League reviewed Yerushalmi's activities and concluded that he has a "record of anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant and black bigotry. The research also pointed out that The Eagle Forum, which is classified within the Islamophobia network, has targeted the Gülen movement, labeling it as a threat of radical Islam, although it actually devotes itself to education, global peace and mutual understanding efforts. Noting that the Eagle Forum partners with Brigitte Gabriel's ACT! for America and Frank Gaffney's Center for Security Policy to push anti-Muslim issues, particularly anti-Shariah hysteria, the study explained: "At its 2011 Eagle Forum conference in St. Louis, Missouri, for example, Gabriel, Gaffney and others in the network revealed a new supposed threat: Muslim Gülen schools, which they claim would educate children through the lens of Islam and teach them to 'hate Americans'." "Worse, the speakers alleged that President [Barack] Obama's support for charter school reforms was a back-door strategy for using taxpayer money to fund the schools," it added. "Of course, Gülen schools are nothing of the sort. They are the product of moderate Turkish Muslim educators who want 'a blend of religious faith and largely Western curriculum'," the study, nevertheless, maintained. Now we should also remember a disappointing article appeared in The New York Times on June 7, by Stephanie Saul titled “Charter Schools Tied to Turkey Grow in Texas,” which attempted to defame Harmony Public Schools in Texas. The research raises the question of whether the article was a part of these misinformation campaigns or not. As we remember quite well, the article contained an explicitly anti-immigrant bias and suggested that Harmony, one of the most successful charter school programs in the US, is somehow suspect because its founders were Turkish immigrants. Unfortunately, the impressive success story of Harmony students was barely mentioned in the article. This New York Times article triggered some other biased articles in The Times Picayune of New Orleans, leading the charter of Abramson Charter School to be revoked. The school was run by the Pelican Foundation, which was established in December 2005 and primarily focuses on math, science and technology. Now, they are trying to start a similar smear campaign against Kenilworth Science and Technology School, which also operates under the Pelican Foundation. Now, I think it is necessary to clarify here that even though these schools are often called Gülen schools, in fact they are quite different. As a reporter, I interviewed some of the founders of these schools and they claim that they have no affiliation with the Gülen movement, which has devoted itself to global peace and education in all over the world. Is it bad to be affiliated with the Gülen Movement? Most definitely not, but even though some of the founders of these schools migrated from Turkey and were inspired by the teachings of Mr. Gülen, they are American citizens and it's their constitutional right to choose to identify themselves however they want. Mainstream American media, interestingly, remains silent about CAP's research. * Aydoğan Vatandaş is an investigative reporter based in New York and holds an MA in media studies.

AND NOW WHAT THE GULEN MOVEMENT AND THEIR AKP PARTY OF TURKEY WON’T REPORT!

REPRESSION OF FELLOW TURKISH CITIZENS.

http://www.haberinyeri.net/the-repressive-regime-continues-in-turkey-111416h.htm

The repressive regime continues in Turkey

The Turkish government goes on arrested those who are in opposition.

 Just a few days ago, ten members of the very popular and opponent National Channel (Ulusal Kanal) workers and Aydinlik newspaper staff were put in jail.The Government's police raided Aydinlik and took 10 people into custody.  The police officers searched the whole TV building and the press agency and captured many documents and computers..

 "The Police based their actions on a recent broadcast about the prime minister's speech."

Because these kinds of operations have been carried on on opponent press agencies, this rationale is not supported by the truth

Those who are under arrest by the AKP government have started a hunger strike.  Many of their friends who are not imprisoned have joined them. ,Those who are imprisoned are facing serious health problems because of the bad conditions

The Turkish police raided one Turkish press office and one Turkish TV office.  As a result, they arrested 10 people.  Other Turkish media will not report this, because they are afraid of a Government clamp down."

Haberinyeri.net reporter USA by Pen Macpherson

Turkish protestor faces off with the Gulen Movement conrolled police in Turkey

Before hunger strike

after hunger strike

Gulen Movement's argumentation is a Straw Man fallacy, weak and lame argumentation

Islam’s enemy network http://www.todayszaman.com/columnist-255635-islams-enemy-network.html

There is a very important characteristic that differentiates open and democratic countries from closed and authoritarian regimes. While closed societies can find a chance to confront their mistakes only when there are large-scale revolutions or breakthroughs, open societies have a chance to do the same because they have self-critical institutions and people. Open Society like Turkiye?  Talk about the Kurdish children and Turkish Journalists in prison.

The report, “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America,” prepared by the Center For American Progress (CAP), which is known for its close ties to US President Barack Obama, reinforces this fact. Due to trauma it suffered from on Sept. 11, the US experienced an intense drift regarding Muslims inside and outside of the country, while and it contradicted the values that it represented, resulting in grave mistakes made in its policies. However, names involved in a network that has misinformed American society about Islam and Muslims have now been unveiled. The result of a fastidious, six-month study, the report started by pointing out the ties between the extreme right-wing supporter Anders Breivik, who went on a killing spree that shocked the world, and those who spread hatred against Islam in the United States. In the manifesto that he wrote about why he committed the massacre, Breivik mentioned Robert Spencer, who is known for spreading disinformation and hatred against Islam with his blog Jihad Watch, 162 times, well he referenced political activist Pamela Geller and conservative writer and policy advocate David Horowitz 12 times. The report revealed that those names who influenced Breivik work in well-financed institutions that work on disseminating disinformation against Islam.   Now you are inciting hatred toward Americans Robert Spencer and Pamella Geller?  shame on you.  Anders Breivik was a nutcase and not inspired by anyone or anything, he didn't shoot up a Mosque and many of the people were Christian that were killed by him.  Get your facts straight, you are a irresponsible journalists with one-sided opinion....that of the Goofy Gulen Cult. Attention has been drawn to the effectiveness of the organizations engaged in misinformation designed to provoke Islamophobia, who, despite being few in number, have had a strong influence on public opinion. The organizations which channel funding to such groups were always the same. Researchers looking into these groups “followed the money,” and were able to discover the financers of Islamophobia. It is interesting that the same funds were supporting many Jewish organizations. Names from Islamophobia experts such as Daniel Pipes to Fox News, the media leg of the network, were exposed: They included David Horowitz of the Freedom Center, Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs, the Washington Times, the National Review, Christian Broadcast Network. The political and religious figures that lent a helping hand to the network were not forgotten either: Politicians such as Peter King, Allen West, Michele Bachman and Sue Myrick are carrying the message propagated by the misinformation experts into their political discourse, while religious leaders such as Pat Robertson, John Hagee, Ralph Reed and Franklin Graham were also taking part in the campaign.  They are ALL misinformed but the Gulen Movement is correct?  What kind of Bull are you slinging?  You cannot possible think you are a journalist with credibility.   One important observation that came out of the research was that the campaign recently launched against the Gülen Movement in the US is the work of the same network. The Eagle Forum, financed by the same organizations, drew public attention to charter schools run by Turks in the US, while attempting to spread Islamophobia. The forum organized a conference series titled “How to Take Back America” in 2009, and also launched a smear campaign against the Gülen Movement together with Gabriel Gaffney in St. Louis in March 2011. Propaganda was spread to the effect that the movement was attempting to spread a radical understanding of Islam and instill hatred of the US in children. What we are facing is not a just one more case of increased Islamophobia in the post-Sept. 11 world; there is a network working to instill the hatred of Islam in society.  No hatred toward Islam, some of us are Muslim...only hatred toward your lying group that grows by deception, bribary and manipulation.  You are un democratic and prejudice toward others who are not part of Hizmet.   Of course one must not overlook groups that objectify Islam in Muslim countries, particularly in Turkey, while speaking of networks that spread Islamophobia in the West. According to the “Fear Corporation” report, those who finance Islamophobia in the US and give it media support are all in the civilian realm. In Turkey, on the other hand, in the domestic anti-Islamic campaign, important governmental organizations as well as civilians are taking leadership roles. Think of the official websites targeting Islam, the Justice and Development (AK) Party and Gülen. Let’s see who will write a report on these “fear corporations” and the forces behind them.  over 70% of Turkish Citizens do not like the Gulen Movement, if you were so popular why did Hocaefendi have to leave and remains in hiding?  Answer that one.  Oh that is right he relocated to America for health reasons...he is allergic to lead.

Gulen Schools Worldwide: Gulen Movement websites all 148 come from IP addre...

Gulen Schools Worldwide: Gulen Movement websites all 148 come from IP addre...: The internet is an omnipresent and powerful tool in their mission http://www.notdeleted.net/en-Hoca%26Internet.html Although it can turn ...

Gulen Goose from the CRAZY TURK blog on the Goose Network

Basically this Esek butchers Martin Luther King's famous speech "I have a dream" this is funny. 
Good Luck chasing the windmills, you will lose in America as you did in Turmenistan and Russia.  Heres to you LostSish...nice restaurant love the Noah's Pudding.

This isn't even funny or amusing. This is sick. Even for them it is just sick !!!http://www.gulen-charterschools.com/oped/gulen-charter-goose-network/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gulen-charter-goose-networkDelivered in the steps of Satanic Coliseum in the great land of Geese County. Dear My Geese! I am Raul the pathetic. Your very first mission is to throw all Muslims out of this great country, and work relentlessly to cleanse the footprints of Islam in America, and if possible in the face of earth.I have a dream that one day my Geese collecting worms in the ranges of Texas and in the slums of Chicago will be able to sit down around at a table of hatreds, seeking to satisfy their thirst for bigotry by drinking from the cup of ignorance.I have a dream today; one day my Geese will truly believe in divine mission that I set for them with a hidden agenda; part of it to do with racism, intolerance, anti-choice, and religious crusade.I have a dream that my sponsors and secret admirers in financial sectors one day  join forces to manipulate financial markets to destroy the financial supremacy of Bill Gates so that he can no longer grant funds to educational organizations such as those what we I have insistently been calling Gulen Charter Schools.I have a dream that one day all underground worms as well as companions of my dear friend Donna will join my Geese to chant the same immortal lyrics: “Gulen Charter Schools, Chewing Gum, Cotton Candy and Colloquial What Nonsense!”I have a dream that all whatever-necks and sincere ignorant unite with my hardworking Geese under the same mission of becoming enemy for every single beauty under the sun if any of those beauties are indeed delivered by anyone other than my Geese, especially by Muslims.I have a dream that, if not today definitely before tomorrow, my sincere scholars of the Dark Templar will be able to re-define the dictionary meaning of certain words that make my Geese feel dizzy and fuzzy at times. It is imperative that the following corrections be made immediately: Tolerance; Migraine, Education; Bad Command or file name, Democracy; Quack! Quack!.Gulen Charter Schools; Cotton Candy.I have a dream that my Geese, and children of my companions will one day live in a nation where they will be judged not by the content of their character, but by the color of their skin, idiosyncrasies and degree of ignorance. Who cares, if indeed we will be the only cult to define what is right, wrong, just, and unfair.I have a dream that one day this nation  of Geese will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are not created equal; My kin, skin, religion and my cult is superior to all others.”I have a dream that my Geese will soon establish an Empire of Ignorance to fight with the educational enlightenment and tolerance that this great nation is experiencing with the push of a so called Gulen Schools. I also hope that our Empire of Ignorance stands against any rising spirit of Ottoman Empire. That is to say that this is the empire that my Geese need its ashes to continue searching worms and bread its generations for the foreseeable future.I have a dream that the future tenants of Empire of Ignorance understand that the value of  “atrocious yet necessary” massacre that my man conducted in which he gladly sacrificed 92 people in Oslo for the religious crusade that I have been advocating since my birth. He killed these people just to show solely that “killing is bad”, and obviously better than letting Turkish scholars open schools in America. Thou shall call him the “hero of Geese” but never forget to call Muslim educators “terrorists.”I am not unmindful about the lofty sacrifices that some of my Geese came here fresh from narrow cells of underground world, from the sharp valley of conspiracy and from the long creek of smear. You have been the veterans of our holy cause and crusade. Continue to work with the faith that racism and religious intolerance will eventually prevail.I heard that people call me sick. I have a dream that one day the citizens of this great nation understand sincerity of my authentic symptom as psychiatrists call this sickness as not “Schi-but Gulen-zophrenia” which manifests itself simply in the form of “brain eclipse.” Everywhere I turn my face, I see the word “Gulen”, some sort of partial hallucination to makes me color blind, hearing deficit and speech disorder.  I love my sickness that’s how I can separate facts from the fictions, good from the evil, and light from the darkness.   I hope everyone takes a lesson from my condition, and be able to convert his/her desperation, depression, and aggression into a “messiah-onic” divine aspiration.It is obvious that America has defaulted on its promise to deliver quality public education at the world scale. Public schools and public charter schools have become nuisance. I have a dream that  my Geese will soon fix this pervasive problem once for all by inviting their biological brothers; Morons of Eskimo to the center stage. Now, it is time to close the doors of opportunity for whatever public education choice.As a final wish form my sheet-list, like every mortal one day I will also “kick the bucket”, but I have a dream that my sponsors will build my “statute” next to the Statute of Liberty and my Geese will chisel the word “Statue of Ignorance” on my forehead. That will be the right tribute to my lofty spirit.Now it is the time to dive into darkness and un-civilize in the valley of racism to the moonlit path of religious crusade. Once again, let us seek to satisfy our thirst religious crusade by drinking from the cup of cynicism and hatred.I have a dream that the time is nearing when my sponsors, secret admirers, and loyal Geese be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old European Crusade to root out Islam in the face of the earth, “ free at last!, free at last! Thank great Satan, we are free at last!”Thou shall be buried in “Ignorance Graveyard” in this great land of Geese County.

The Turkish Olympiad

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Gulen Charter School Principals replaced by school district

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Gulen Charter Fined $120 Per sign Litter and Annoyance No Permit.

Gulen Charter School in Louisana Abramson Science and Technology, SHAME, SHAME, SHAME

Louisiana Department of Education

Post Office Box 94064 | Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70804-9064 | 1-877-453-2721 | Fax: (225) 342-0193

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Date: 7/15/2011

Contact: Rene' Greer, (225) 342-3600, Fax: (225) 342-0193

DEPARTMENT TO INVESTIGATE ABRAMSON IN NEW ORLEANS 

BATON ROUGE, La. - Today the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) announced it was launching a full investigation of Abramson Science and Technology Charter School in New Orleans as well as reviewing the agency's monitoring process related to this matter.  The investigation, officials said, is due to a report the agency received last night alleging a sexual incident between two students at the school and questioning whether these incidents were appropriately reported to authorities, on top of more than a year of allegations and problems previously identified at the school.

Acting State Superintendent Ollie S. Tyler issued the following note to members of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education via e-mail this afternoon.

Dear Members of the Board:

I am writing to alert you about a serious issue involving Abramson Science & Technology Charter School, a Type 5 charter school in New Orleans.  As you may recall, Abramson was placed on contract probation last year due to certain legal and contractual issues and was placed under a Corrective Action Plan.  Related to these incidents was a possible attempt to bribe an LDOE employee.

Last night we became aware of another alleged incident involving two elementary school students that was possibly sexual in nature.  A former Abramson teacher claims to have reported the incident to school leadership and alleged that no action was taken.  In light of this new information, on top of the issues that have been discovered at this school throughout the past two school years, we are immediately commencing a full investigation of the school and re-evaluating our own monitoring processes within the LDOE and the RSD.  We have also referred the alleged bribery to the Inspector General's office for investigation.

Ensuring students' safety is our number-one priority.  Therefore, I am recommending that we invoke any and all authority we have under law to prevent this school from opening until all of these matters can be fully investigated.

Abramson, which serves almost 600 students, opened in the 2007-2008 school year and is operated by the non-profit Pelican Educational Foundation.

NOW THE NEWSPAPER ARTICLE…

http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2011/07/state_shuts_down_abramson_char.html

Records show glaring faults at school with ties to Turkish charter network

Published: Friday, July 15, 2011, 10:30 PM     Updated: Saturday, July 16, 2011, 6:19 AM

By Andrew Vanacore, The Times-Picayune NOLA.com

Inci Akpinar, the vice president of a company called Atlas Texas Construction & Trading, sat down with an official from the Louisiana Department of Education a little more than a year ago and made him an offer.

As the state official, Folwell Dunbar, recalled in a memo to department colleagues, Akpinar flattered him with "a number of compliments" before getting to the point: "I have twenty-five thousand dollars to fix this problem: twenty thousand for you and five for me."

At the time, Dunbar was investigating numerous complaints against Abramson Science & Technology Charter School in eastern New Orleans, which shares apparent ties to Akpinar's firm as well as charter schools in other states run by Turkish immigrants.

In fact, state auditors had already turned up startling deficiencies at Abramson. The records they kept of unannounced visits to the campus, as well as interviews with former teachers, paint a chaotic scene: classrooms without instructors for weeks and even months at a time, students who claimed their science fair projects had been done by teachers, a single special-needs instructor for a school of nearly 600.

Dunbar -- having declined to take money from Akpinar -- recommended more than a year ago that the state board of education yank Abramson's charter.

But the board ultimately stopped short of closing down the school, giving it a year to shape up under a "corrective action plan."

Until this Friday, the school was set to open its doors for another academic year because of a tweak to board policy that pushed back all charter renewals until later in the year.

But after questioning by the The Times-Picayune, acting State Superintendent of Education Ollie Tyler late Friday wrote to the state board asking it to prevent the school from opening in the fall, citing problems discovered during the original investigation and a new information about an incident between two young students that was possibly sexual in nature.

BESE agreed.

Tevfik Eski, the head of the nonprofit organization that runs Abramson, denied allegations about cheating in science fair competitions and outlined a number of steps the school has taken to bolster special education. He said the school has no association with Atlas Texas. Atlas officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

But records of the state's audit, obtained by The Times-Picayune through a public information request, as well as first-hand accounts from teachers, offer a view inside a school that has drawn widespread concern in education circles around the city.

That an executive from Atlas Texas, a Houston-based contractor, would speak on the school's behalf points to the somewhat opaque connections that link Abramson with other schools and businesses founded by Turkish expatriates. Atlas has won numerous contracts in the past from a Texas-based school operator called the Cosmos Foundation.

Cosmos does not run Abramson, but it has a wide-ranging support contract with the Pelican Education Foundation, the local nonprofit that operates both Abramson and Kenilworth Science & Technology Charter School in Baton Rouge.

Among teachers who have spent time in the building, Abramson has earned something of a black-sheep reputation.

Many have wondered about the foreign instructors at the school who appear to be of Turkish origin. State records and interviews show some had trouble communicating in English, which has led to speculation that the school may be taking advantage of a visa program intended to bring highly skilled workers into the country.

Similar allegations have cropped up in other states where the Cosmos Foundation operates. The group runs a charter network called the Harmony Schools in Texas, where they've encountered unfounded accusations that they somehow promote Islamic extremism, largely because of an interest by some of the group's leaders in the movement begun by a Turkish religious scholar named Fethullah Gulen.

View full sizeAbramson teachers on a school-sponsored trip to Turkey received pamphlets, like this one, on the Gulen movement.

Both Cosmos and Pelican have disavowed any official religious links, though Abramson teachers on a school-sponsored trip to Turkey received pamphlets on the Gulen movement. The literature emphasizes Gulen's peaceful message and a commitment to serve "people regardless of faith."

Abramson opened back in 2007 on the site of the old Marion Abramson Senior High School along Read Boulevard.

Like many high schools before Hurricane Katrina, the old Abramson had struggled academically, finishing its last year in 2005 with a school performance score from the state of 31.2 -- far below what Louisiana considers "academically unacceptable."

The new Abramson, part of a revolutionary post-storm movement toward independent charter schools, was able to produce vastly improved results. Still operating out of a set of trailers where the old Abramson school building once stood, it notched a school performance score of 78 last year.

As the school's full name suggests, Abramson focuses on a science and math-heavy curriculum, and Pelican's website trumpets the success its students have had at science fairs around the state.

Like many of the charter schools that have sprung up in New Orleans since 2005, Abramson has welcomed young recruits from Teach for America, a group whose ranks in the city have swelled.

Mary Elise DeCoursey arrived at Abramson as a first-year TFA instructor in the fall of 2009. The school assigned her to teach 8th and 11th grade English courses along with a journalism elective.

But something odd happened around October, DeCoursey said: the teacher next door, who taught a Turkish language course, disappeared.

The instructor never came back but students continued to show up for the course, sitting unattended in the classroom day after day. Several times, DeCoursey said, she called down to the office and was told that someone would be up shortly. No one ever came, a pattern that she said persisted for months.

Meanwhile, the rumors about science projects had reached her as well. One of her students complained that she had finished her own science fair entry only to be handed a different project by school officials -- one "that could win," DeCoursey said.

Nor was there any apparent help for students with special needs, she said.

She was never unaware whether any of her students had the individualized education plans, or IEPs, that are required by federal law, and none of her students was ever pulled out of class for extra help. DeCoursey said the only time the school's special education instructor intervened in her class was after the school's principal asked her which students might be in danger of failing the state's LEAP test. Standardized test results are a major component of school performance scores, which ultimately determine whether a schools is allowed to continue taking in students.

Growing alarmed, DeCoursey and three other teachers who shared her concerns began keeping written records of what they saw, asking students to document similar instances of unethical behavior.

Finally, during a birthday get-together at the wine bar Delachaise, one of the teachers, Charm Baker, broke down in tears over conditions at the school, DeCoursey said. They decided that night to get in touch with the state.

In an email dated Feb. 2, 2010, and signed by DeCoursey, Baker and two others, they wrote to Kenneth Campell, then head of the state's charter office: "Though we are fully aware of the significant amount of autonomy given to charter schools, we are now concerned that this autonomy is being abused to the point that students are being forced to engage in unethical acts."

View full sizeEliot Kamenitz, The Times-PicayuneFour teachers at the Abramson Science & Technology Charter School reported a 'general feeling of fear' among the school's staff because of what appeared to be retaliation against teachers, parents and students who had spoken up about the school's practices.

They also reported a "general feeling of fear" among the school's staff because of what appeared to be retaliation against teachers, parents and students who had spoken up about the school's practices in the past.

Seeming to confirm those fears, the school fired Baker as the state's audit got under way that spring, according to DeCoursey and state records.

But the state investigation appeared to back up much of what the teachers had written in their note.

A team of at least seven people -- independent experts as well as officials from the department of education and the state-run Recovery School District -- visited the school and recorded their observations in written reports.

Though Abramson advertises a special focus on science and technology, state officials found lab materials "still boxed, with most of the instruments still packed and sealed" after two years sitting at the school.

Robert Daigle, an educational consultant who visited Abramson wrote, "It was the cleanest science equipment I had ever seen in my 21 years as a science teacher. I speculate lack of use kept them so clean. And this was in the science lab that all teachers go to for experiments."

Another outside expert who visited Abramson, Barbara Cassara, reported that several students confirmed they had done little or none of the work that went into their science projects: "One child indicated that her mother would not let her participate in the off-campus fair because she had not done the work herself. Another said the teacher did her brother's project."

A group of ninth-graders, asked at random how their grades were, all responded by saying they had straight A's or B's, and said they felt the state's standardized exams were "easy." Asked why, "they said that if you participated in the review, you would know what to do. They described practice on items that were very close to the items on the test."

Another group of students was "very vocal about their outrage over the firing of the 'best' teacher," later identified in the state record as "Mrs. Baker."

The school declined to give its reasons for firing Baker, citing a policy against discussing the conduct of its teachers.

The state audit also turned up a significant lack of resources for special-needs students.

Federal law requires that every student classified with a special need have an IEP, developed through observation and interviews.

Margaret Lang, executive director for the state department of education's intervention services, reported that all of the special-needs students at Abramson had IEP's that called for one hour-long session of special education instruction per week. "This would indicate that this is not an individual decision when all students have similar and very limited special education instruction," Lang wrote. The special ed coordinator told Lang that "instruction was limited because that was all she could do as the only special educator for the K-11 school."

There were also complaints from teachers and students about the difficulty of communicating with some of the foreign staff.

One group of students apparently grew "animated" as they told state auditors that there were "many teachers in the school who did a poor job of communicating material to them because of poor language skills and poor teaching skills." After an interview with one of the middle school math teachers, the state's audit notes, "The teacher has poor English skills and is very difficult to understand."

While the school employs foreign teachers, there is no evidence that Abramson or any other school associated with the Cosmos Foundation has ties to Islamic extremism.

Teachers who traveled to Turkey on an Abramson-sponsored trip brought back written materials about the Gulen Movement. But none of the teachers who spoke for this article described any trace of the movement's teachings in the curriculum at Abramson. And there is no mention of Gulen in records that came from the state.

One of the pamphlets brought back by an Abramson teacher describes the movement as "neither an Islamic nor a religious movement." Instead it "centers its works and efforts on high human values and the human person."

Still, Dunbar, the state's academic advisor for charter schools, described a series of bizarre encounters as he and others carried out the audit that suggest a network of associations at Abramson extending beyond Louisiana.

When his team made its initial unplanned visit to the school, they were told the high school students would be leaving for a field trip. But students "indicated that they did not know about the trip," Dunbar wrote, and "a few teachers said it was put together at the last minute. Team members suspect that it was done because of the review."

On a follow-up visit to the school, Dunbar was told that representatives from both the Cosmos Foundation and Atlas Texas had arrived and wanted to meet with him.

"They proceeded to shower me with compliments, to the extent that it made me feel uncomfortable," Dunbar wrote. Akpinar, the vice president from Atlas Texas, even contacted Dunbar after the meeting to see if they could get drinks that evening.

"I declined," he wrote.

After persistent requests, Dunbar said he agreed to meet her at the Starbucks on Magazine Street, where Akpinar offered $25,000 to help "fix this problem," Dunbar wrote. He recalled explaining that it would be a conflict of interest for a state official to take money from the school.

She responded that he would "only need to advise them," adding, "You are the only one who can help us."

Dunbar concluded in the same memo that the state board of education should revoke school's the charter. He suggested the state bring in another charter operator for the lower grades and disperse the high school students to other campuses.

"Later in the day I joked with my wife, 'I might need to enter a witness protection plan,'" Dunbar wrote. "In retrospect, I'm starting to think it's not all that funny."

A spokeswoman for the state education department said Dunbar reported the incident to the New Orleans Police Department, which couldn't find "hard evidence" to substantiate the incident.

Ultimately, the state decided to renew Abramson's charter for one year, contingent on the school carrying out a detailed corrective action plan. (A typical renewal lasts anywhere from two to 10 years.)

The school would have come up for review again this summer, but the state board of education altered its policy on all charter renewals this year. Instead of considering applications in the summer, the board will conduct reviews after school performance scores are calculated in October. The idea is to make sure the latest scores are available and, if necessary, give the state more time before the beginning of a new school year to find a different operator.

State officials have followed up with numerous site visits, and the school claims to have bulked up its special education staff.

But after Friday's sudden shut-down, it appears families will have to find a new school for their children, with little more than a month left until classes begin.

In recent interviews, several teachers who worked at Abramson this past year said problems have continued at the school, in particular around students with special needs.

Genevieve Redd, a first-year Teach for America recruit at Abramson this past year, described making several failed attempts to get help for a student she suspected of being abused, an account the school disputes.

Redd said she encountered a 5-year-old student from her kindergarten class in a school bathroom, poised in what appeared to be a sexual position with another student who had stripped naked.

But she said she hit a wall when she took the incident to the school's administration. She said the dean of students told her to give the child "the benefit of the doubt," while the principal remarked that "we all know he's goofy, anyway." She said they told her to throw away the page-long write-up she had prepared on the incident and simply log it as a minor classroom disturbance. The dean of students, she said, promised to handle contacting the child's parents and the authorities but never followed through.

When she caught her student pulling the same classmate into a supply closet, Redd said, the school's guidance counselor finally called Child & Family Services and the parents, but neither were aware of a previous incident.

The principal at the time, Cunyet Dockmen, has left the school. But the current principal, Andrea Estavan, refuted Redd's version of events, saying the school contacted the police and the child's parents immediately after the first incident. Estavan said the school decided not to renew Redd's contract because of poor classroom management, speculating that her allegations are retaliation.

Patrice Yarls, the dean of students, recalled a slightly different version of the incident. Yarls said that after questioning the students after the first encounter, the administration felt unsure of what had happened. She said the school did not call police after the first incident and could not remember whether parents had been contacted.

Redd claims that she left the school on amiable terms after Dockam explained that she would be let go because of budget cuts.

Andrew Vanacore can be reached at avanacore@timespicayune.com or 504.826.3304.

Folwell Dunbar, an HONEST American Politician

Tevfik Eski, the head of the nonprofit organization that runs Abramson Science & Technology Charter School, denied allegations about cheating in science fair competitions. This science fair at Abramson was photographed in January 2010.

l Abramson teachers on a school-sponsored trip to Turkey received pamphlets, like this one, on the Gulen movement

Mary Louis DeCoursey, a brave American Teacher

Four teachers at the Abramson Science & Technology Charter School reported a 'general feeling of fear' among the school's staff because of what appeared to be retaliation against teachers, parents and students who had spoken up about the school's practices