Carlos Menchaca – Fear Mongling or Blaming Teachers To Get His Name in the News?
Councilman Carlos Menchaca’s office released an alarming press release last week.
Papers and blogs all posted articles with similar titles to: Teachers Tell Immigrant Studnets in Bay Ridge and Sunset Park to Start Packing their Bags. Yes, disgusting. I knew in my heart immediately that it couldn’t be true because teachers consider their students as “their kids.”
So is Menchaca grandstanding and using the new President to get media coverage? YES!
Here you can see The Brooklyn Paper used the word staff in the title, but then wrote: Carlos Menchaca says teachers.……
Hannah Frishberg’s article with The Sunset Park Voice has an address with the word teachers, but the article shows the word employees.
Frishberg’s article also appeared in the Bensonhurst Bean and the address:
http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2016/11/teachers-tell-immigrant-students-bay-ridge-sunset-park-start-packing-bags/
They put this update on the article:Update: The headline of this story originally said “teachers” when in fact it was “non-teacher” employees who made the remarks, as we specify in the body of the article. We are very sorry for the confusion, we were confused ourselves. At least it comes as a relief that no educators were saying this. The content of this piece has not been changed, only the headline.
It’s Tuesday, November 22, 2016 and the Community Education Council for District 17 shows this article with the title, “Councilman: Teachers telling immigrant Brooklyn students to ‘start packing their bags’ after Trump election.” Neither Menchaca, or his staff have written a message to correct the sharing of the article. Menchaca did not correct it.
The Bensonhurst Bean put a message at the end of the article:
When pressed for the details, Menchaca’s office said, ” there no reports of teachers making racially charged statements, but that what is being “reported to our office is a mix of questionable communication by various people in school settings.”
Carlos Menchaca didn’t release an apology. Later the title was changed to: “Councilman: Public school staff telling immigrant Brooklyn students to ‘start packing their bags’ after Trump election” But put your mouse over the underlined words and you will see it’s still mentions the teachers. Menchaca didn’t care that NYC teachers were being tagged like this. He just wanted a story with his name.
Sunset Park sees Menchaca as a Councilman who ignores their neighborhood (see comments on this article) and that’s what I have seen as well. This Summer their was an incident of hate towards women or Muslims and Menchaca never spoke about the incident – he remained silent. To see Carlos Menchaca used teachers to get media coverage is horrendous. If anyone at a school spoke this way to a student, I would expect it to be handled quickly and the person removed from the school. Menchaca should have spoken with the principal and Carmen Farina – not the media.
Hugs,
marlene
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