Las Cruces Public Schools

There are a lot of good people in Las Cruces who are good public school teachers. They do the best they can in the dichotomous environment in the School District. The School District is proud of its official Janus-faced appearance of legitimacy toward the equity of all students. But in reality, the School District encourages, promotes, and allows the promotion of the Status Quo's proselytizing in the public schools of Las Cruces.

The School District knows what it's doing and the blessing of ignorance is no excuse. The distractions from the truth is amazing. The current logo of the School District is a version of the Trinity Zia symbol, like that seen on a local automobile dealership, the NMSU campus Road Runner Pizza Shop, and several businesses which have a right to their designs. Supposedly, the one displayed by the School District is the result of a contest won by a student of yore.

I have asked the School District in several requests under the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act for public documents concerning the proselytizing of students. I will probably get struck by a meteor before I can get a straight, honest answer from the School District. One question was about using a church operated by the evangelical owner of the local IHOP for a NASA elementary school-age program. The worthwhile program is run by the NMSU Education Dept. in collaboration with the School District. The location was a violation of the School District policy. The retort from NMSU was that the church is a "community center" and was "offered."

The other still-pending, months-old, unanswered question is where is the District Policy and Procedures to protect public school students from proselytizing at field trip locations. Well, in a panicked response, the School District sicced their over-paid, equally culturally deficient Santa Fe lawyer on me as a obvious ploy to 'delay and discourage.' The response proves the School District KNOWS they are in the proselytizing business and has to answer to no one. Of course the superiority of Status Quo in the School District discounts asking the real experts how to resolve the problem generated and continue to support by the School District.