If we want our youth to beleive that this is the land of opportunity what messege are we sending them if we start taking away strong & invovled teachers like Mr. Obain.
I am the parent of a Fenway graduate and I know how important the school's faculty --and Mr Auttouomain-- are for the students. This is an outstanding person that we are all proud to have as a role model for our children. Please do the right thing!
Please do not take a valued member of our society and force him out of the US. This kind of action is not making our country safer. In fact, it should frighten all Americans!
Mr. Auttouoman represents a promise, and not a threat. Deporting him serves the best interests of no one. Please allow him to stay so that he can continue his important work.
Educators are asked to teach about the roots of the US government and legal system and made it unique at its founding. The United States is supposed to be committed to the rights of individuals and the protection of due process. Allowing bureaucratic regulations to blindly override the organized, legitimate protests of a community, for a an honorable, contributing member of their community, is the antithesis of the principles and tradition of democracy, liberty. and justice.
It seems that the Bush administration has been relentless in ruining the education system is the US by spending countless tax dollars on war and what I call a “Caesar” type roll in forcing our way of life on other cultures. In doing this, he had forgotten what matters most and that is giving the best education to our young children. By taking action against Mr. Obain Attouoman it reflects how democracy and the right to freedom has been put aside. Please make the change and allow a person the right chance. We cannot even find criminals o deport but we elect to deny a person their rights when all they have done is give to the young minds of this country.
Mr.President,
How many people in the course of their lives mix up dates or times? This is unjustified persecution in my mind, for a man who is loved by so many students at low to modertate income levels attending urban schools. Pleae, think again, read the comments, and make a more reasonable and humane decision.
Thank you.
As a member of the faculty of Harvard's Graduate School of Education I am appalled by the action taken to deport a man without cause. He has been an important mentor, teacher, and guide to hundreds of students in Boston's Public Schools. I am familiar with this case and can speak with certainty that no one will be well served by this decision - most certainly not the students and families he has helped. Your immediate attention is necessary to reverse this harmful decision.
Please allow Obain Auttouoman to stay in this country and teach the students of Fenway High School. Amazing teachers are hard to find, it would be travesty to allow one to slip away like this.
This man has done nothing wrong. He's supposed to be deported because of a clerical error. He's a good teacher, students and parents like him, his pays his taxes - why should he have to go? Please intervene to keep a good man from being kicked out of this country.
Nobody will ever know how many other students this teacher will continue to influence. Please allow this teacher to continue living and teaching in the US. This would be the true American dream.
Given the shortage of caring and qualified teachers in our schools, it doesn't make sense to disrupt successful learning at Fenway High School for purely procedural purposes. Please give Mr. Auttouoman a fair hearing and allow him remain a powerful and positive influence in students' lives.
I run an after-school program in Boston. It is great to hear about a teacher doing the right things - many of my students tell me stories about teachers that are diappointing. We need to keep the good teachers in our schools!
I work for a teacher development program in the San Francisco Bay Area. We in California, as well as throughout the US, are acutely aware of the shortage of qualified and dedicated teachers. Please give Mr. Auttouoman a hearing!
The public schools in the US have been a failure for as long as I have known. Depriving an urban school of a talented and loved teacher will only speed up this declining educational system. The deportation of this one teacher will negatively affect hundreds of students and community members. This is not right. In a land of justice and opportunity, where is the justice?
With the shortage of teachers how can we deport a man who has done so much fro the students in Boston.
He is the type of person that poses danger to the US . On the contrary he has contributed as much if not more tahn many US citizens. He deserve to stay in this country.
lucia
Dear President Bush:
There are always exceptions to any rule and I believe that Mr. Auttouoman falls within this category. Please ask the immigration officials to reconsider this case and at least grant him another hearing. Thank you.
We can't find teachers in this county any more, we have worn them out with "standardized tests" and you are taking a passionate one away? Help me understand this.
I think this is very un fair. Mr. Auttouoman came to our country for safty, and he has changed a lot of the student's lives. If he is helping the students why cant he stay and continue to change people's lives?
Mr. Obain Attouoman is an amazing man who constantly sacrifices himself to be a great teacher, mentor, and role model to more than 1000 Boston Public School students in the Fenway High, Boston Arts Academy, and Mary Lyons Middle School community.
He came to this country fleeing persecution in the Ivory Coast, and after waiting six years for an asylum hearing, he misread the handwritten court date and showed up on the wrong day. Now, without even getting to go before the judge, he is being deported.
We do not believe that this is how it should be in the United States of America. We believe that someone who has made such a great contribution to society should be encouraged to continue his fine work here, rather than be deported.
Mr. President, our public education system needs more teachers like Obain, and we cannot believe that you or your administration would sanction taking a great math teacher from an urban school.
Marianne McLaughlin
617 501-0964
58 Brook Farm Road
Boston, MA 02132-1606
In a society that is need of exceptional teachers, Mr. Auttouoman is just that. Allow him to stay in this country and continue to positively influence young minds.
leave the public school teachers alone, i mean it's like ya'll don't want us to secceed, taking aways some of the most positive people in our young peoples lives.. not cool man, not cool at all
Mr. President, You have made it a cornerstone of your administration to improve the education of all American children. In this, your second term, you are making high school education a high priority. It would seem to me, that Obain Auttouoman is the kind of teacher who is ALREADY making such a difference in his students' lives. Mr. Auttouoman escaped to this country to get away from persecution in his native Ivory Coast. Not only has he accepted safe haven here, but he has GIVEN BACK to this nation through his teaching and inspiring so many urban students. Must he be forced back to an uncertain future simply because he misread an appearance form and showed up on the wrong date? Does he not DESERVE another chance to state his case? Would you be where you are today if people had not given you a second chance?
Secretary Chertoff,
It is clear that Obain Autouoman is not someone who escaped to this country to make a safer life for himself. He has made a conscious effort to give back to our society in one of the most important ways possible. He is teaching and inspiring so many urban students - the very people who are the future of this nation. Must your department never give someone a second chance - especially under the circumstances of his error? Is your department so tied to rules and regulations that it can not see when one individual has proven himself as an upstanding resident of this nation?
Mr. President, Mr. Secretary, please do not allow the deportation of Obain Auttouoman. You ARE the individuals who can make a difference this time!
Mr Bush when did stop being the "Home of the Brave, the land of the free"? I hope
America is still standing with her arms open saying " Give me your tired your poor, huddled masses longing to be free.
Mr. Bush please do the "Human Right" thing.
