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CAN RON UNZ
BE TRUSTED?
Ron Unz Seems To Have No
Scruples About Lying.
The following comment about
Ron Unz is in the last paragraph in the Nov 24,1997 issue of "US News &
World Report" (article attached below):
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Quote from US News & World
Report (Nov 24, 2997):
"Unz knows the value of a good
attention-getter. Although he was working on a Ph.D. in theoretical
physics, when Unz applied for his first summer job on Wall Street
several years ago he was concerned about how his résumé would play,
since he had no financial experience. So he inflated his IQ, listing it
as 214 on the Stanford-Binet scale--way beyond genius range.”
'I was applying for a job for
which I had no experience and I needed a hook,'says Unz, whose political
aspirations may land him in a similar predicament again. With bilingual
education, he may have found a new hook."
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Ron Unz's use of a lie as a
"hook" to get employment is more than a "little white lie." Ron was
seeking employment and in most companies to knowingly lie is grounds for
getting fired. (In most companies there are usually very specific
clauses that lying on the résumé or application for employment is
grounds for termination.)
As you can all see, Ron Unz
does not seem to have scruples about using lies to further his agenda.
This aspect of Ron Unz's
character is not insignificant. How can anyone trust what Unz is saying?
If he is willing to lie about his own qualifications, he can distort any
figures he wants without any qualms.
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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/971124/24bil.htm
US News & World Report:
Nov 24, 1997
Is it hasta la vista for
bilingual ed?
With Latino support,
California seems poised to kill the controversial
approach
Check out the Citizen's
Toolbox on Bilingual Education
BY BETSY STREISAND
LOS ANGELES--First, California
voters did away with benefits to illegal immigrants. Then they got rid
of affirmative action. Now, in what is rapidly emerging as the
brand-name ballot issue for 1998, bilingual education may meet its end.
Last week, petitions were filed for English for the Children, a ballot
measure sponsored by Silicon Valley millionaire Ron Unz that would
virtually eliminate bilingual education in California ...
By getting influential
Hispanics like Escalante signed on early, Unz hopes he has positioned
the initiative so it can keep Latino support in the coming months.
Unz knows the value of a good
attention-getter. Although he was working on a Ph.D. in theoretical
physics, when Unz applied for his first summer job on Wall Street
several years ago he was concerned about how his résumé would play,
since he had no financial experience. So he inflated his IQ, listing it
as 214 on the Stanford-Binet scale--way beyond genius range.
"I was applying for a job for
which I had no experience and I needed a hook," says Unz, whose
political aspirations may land him in a similar predicament again. With
bilingual education, he may have found a new hook.
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ANOTHER INCIDENT
On October 26, 2000 in Tempe,
Arizona in a room filled to capacity at the ASU Law School today
(October 26), in response to pro-bilingual Jeff MacSwan’s point that..
"Ron Unz promised to teach children English in a year, but after two
years of his one year immersion program, only 5 percent of English
learners could pass English proficiency tests statewide," said Jeff
MacSwan, assistant professor of education at ASU, who debated Ron Unz
and Margaret Dugan along with Sal Gabaldon, a Tucson educator, earlier
today.
"Redesignation rates are
meaningless. I've always said that," responded Unz.
However, even today the
statistic can be found on the front page of Unz's website
www.onenation.org. And he used the redesignation rate to criticize
California's successful bilingual programs in every campaign speech
during his struggle to crush bilingual programs in that state.
In the Los Angeles Times on
Oct. 19, 1997 Ron Unz wrote an article where he mentions the English
proficiency redesignation rate of bilingual education:
“Of the 1.3 million California
schoolchildren--a quarter of our state's total public school
enrollment--who begin each year classified as not knowing English, only
about 5% learn English by year's end, implying an annual failure rate of
95% for existing programs.” (Bilingualism vs. Bilingual Education, RON
K. UNZ, Los Angeles Times, October 19, 1997, p.M6 )
As you can see, Ron Unz seems
to readily change his story and -- there is no polite way of saying it
-- he tells outright lies when it seems convenient.
If Ron is willing to lie about
his own qualifications, and about what he has previously stated, then
how can anyone trust ANYTHING that Ron Unz is saying? |