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It’s the Witch Hunt Time Now!!!

Now that the ground work is done to attack and discredit a charter school via calling it “Gulen Charter School”, the reporter can identify the individual members of that particular charter school community and target them as a wolf does to the flock of sheep.

The wolf first attacks the flock, chases them and once a lamb appears to be going away from the rest, the wolf focuses on that lonely lamb for further chase until the process of attack and killing is complete.

That has become another pattern of such local papers to identify some disgruntled former staff or parent members and take advantage of their personal dissatisfaction and magnify that into an overall satisfaction over the school then remind the reader that it was a so called “ Gulen Charter School”. Read more →

Comment management or freedom of speech when allowed…

The previously described ten steps have been almost religiously utilized by so many rookies in order to step up in their careers. Most of such brand new college graduates believe that the only way to grow in their professional career is to become the musketeers of their employers and shoot at the targets that they are guided to. Since the steps are set and all the copy paste materials are pre-cooked, all they have to do is allow their names at the name tag for the so called “Gulen Charter School” article in line. Read more →

Recently an interesting pattern has been growing on writing repetitive “so called Gulen Charter Schools”.  The common threads among those articles are so apparent that one can easily assume that these are some journalism 101 class college students’ assignments by their supervisors. Just like the rookie artists trying to draw the pieces from Picasso or Van Gogh during their initial steps into their career. There is a slight difference though.

The rookie artists while trying to draw others’ art pieces, they are under the assumption that they will gain some skills along the way and no harm will be anticipated on others. However, the aforementioned rookie journalists have come up with such a new fashion of journalism that one can hardly gain any skills and beyond that, the rookie could even be blamed for plagiarism while attacking others. Read more →

The so called “Gulen Charter Schools” have been claimed to be so, based on some common denominators utilized by the so called “Gulen Charter School” attackers.

Here we have some of the most repeated claims by the usual attackers spiced with our brief comments in red;

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The Turkish influence, Islamization of public school students, brainwashing the students and their parents have become some of the various colors of the kool aid powder, certain marginal groups are utilizing to attack the successful  American Public Charter schools.

Depending on the dose, their accusations vary from linking Bill Gates with Gulen to Islamize the States, to selling the U.S. Charter schools to Turkey in order to save the U.S. economy. While reading their claims, blogs or the articles, one would ask the very first question whether the dose of their kool aid has ever been adjusted recently or are they on a free fly zone? Read more →

A recent blog titled “Loose ends on my charter schools piece” by Morgan Josey Glover has attracted attention from our “Usual Commenter-American Teacher”. The “Usual Commenter” must be spending vast amount of his/her time filtering all those Google alerts, responding to the articles/blogs, and following up with the posted comments and responding to them. Such level of dedication could only be explained by at least a full time job for one or even a crew of misinforming agents as identified in the most recent Center for American Progress research named the Fear Inc Read more →

Many people are familiar with a transnational social network called Hizmet Movement, also known as Gulen Movement, which advocates dialogue, tolerance and peace. Hizmet Movement is involved in many activities throughout the world but I would like to bring my focus on educational institutions established by the followers of the movement. Gulen Inspired Schools are active in more than 130 countries of the world. Despite the countries’ differences in political systems, cultures, lifestyles, religions,  economic conditions and many other factors, these schools are quite popular and  succsessful anywhere they are established. Read more →