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90% TALKS ABOUT THE 10%;
INTERNATIONAL TEACHERS AT CONCEPT SCHOOLS

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THE CULTURE AT CONCEPT-MANAGED SCHOOLS;
HEAR IT FROM THE STAKEHOLDERS

"With diversity comes the opportunity to learn things that don't come in a textbook"	"Our school culture is like a family"	"Our common goal is to educate students."

THE CONCEPT SCHOOLS DIFFERENCE:
STAKEHOLDERS TELL IT THE BEST

"Staff to parent communication is much greater here"	"This school is 10 times better than my previous school "

WHAT DO STAKEHOLDERS THINK OF CONCEPT ?

"The agenda of Concept Schools is to educate"	"The educated child is what is going to lead us in our future"

STAKEHOLDERS RESPOND TO ALLEGATIONS ABOUT CONCEPT SCHOOLS

"We have been attacked based on lies"	"Teaching is their life"	"No one has pushed their religion or culture on me"
"I think anybody making allegations is uninformed"	"The Turkish staff and faculty are devoted, committed, humane people"	"I don't care what you are as long as you are teaching my child"

CONCEPT SCHOOLS: THE SUCCESS

"There is no other school in our vicinity that has been rated excellent"	"The students worked hard because they like being here"

THE DIFFERENCE THAT CONCEPT SCHOOLS MAKES

"My child is well prepared for the future."	"I was so impressed with the Director, I signed my son up to go here before the building was even finished."

IMPRESSIONS OF DISTINGUISHED PEOPLE UPON VISITING CONCEPT SCHOOLS

Eduardo Arnal Palomera, Consul of Mexico in Chicago	Gerould Kern, Chicago Tribune Senior Vice President/Editor	Andrew Sund, The President of St. Augustine College
David Orr, Cook County Clerk	Cristal Thomas, Illinois Deputy Governor	Linda Chapa LaVia, Representative
Jesse White, Illinois Secretary of States	Susana Mendoza, City Clerk of Chicago	Michael Madigan, Speaker of the House
Kelly Cassidy, Representative These videos has been referred to the concept schools official blog about gulen charter schools allegations : http://www.conceptschools.info/	Daniel Lipinski, Congressman

Scientists Emerging Out of Charter Controversy - watch 60 minutes gulen charter schools video

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Despite the ongoing controversy around the cultural identity of the Turkish run charters, -remember, some label them as gulen charter schools- science is still at work in these schools. Below is the press release by Horizon Dayton Elementry regarding the Seventh Annual Science Fair.

Horizon Dayton Elementary Students Scientifically Soar

Dayton, OH, December 17, 2011 On December 14th, 2011, Horizon Science Academy Dayton Elementary School, managed by Concept Schools, hosted their Seventh Annual Science Fair at the school located at 545 Odlin Avenue, Dayton, OH, 45405. Students showed their scientific skills at a public viewing of their science fair projects. The science fair, coordinated by the school's sixth grade English and science teacher Andrew Glenn, was a preliminary event to determine winners who will advance to a second phase science fair competition that will be held in Cleveland on March 3rd, 2012. Students who scored highest will compete against other high scoring Concept Schools’ students.
...For the rest of the article, please visit Press Releases webpage.

Something Different on the Gulen Charter Schools !? - at 60 minutes

Guys, we are having a class on
how to respect diversity
and culture. Don't worry, this is not
a Gulen charter school.

Let's do something different :-) today and review the allegations of the anti-charter group with respect to the Turkish run charter schools, e.g. Gulen charter schools. They have a fatuous idea that the so-called gulen charter schools import foreign teachers, i.e. Turkish teachers, from abroad and thus they foment the unemployment rate here in the US. Instead of giving a panegyric to them on account of their accomplishments in education, the bevy of anti-charter always try to defile their well-standing reputation by forging lies and myths.

They surely see a wraith in the middle of day. They spend all of their vim by peregrinating between real life and imagination. This is not a salubrious act of conduct. In the mean time, one wonders from where they get that much ardor for attacking the imaginary gulen schools.

Just a friendly reminder that there is no need for pugilism. Modern men can talk on the issues that they disagree with each other. In order to circumvent this impasse, we need to act with alacrity, instead of lumbering round this blurry mystery.

It was explained over and over again that to find American teachers that were proficient enough in math and science was not an easy task ten years ago.  Most of the Turkish teaching, and the administrative staff as well, in these gulen charters came to the States years ago in this hardship. They filled an indispensable lacuna, so that American kids could advance in two crucial areas, i.e. math and science. Otherwise, they would be illiterate in these fields.

Remember the data that was revealed earlier in this site. Only the ten per cent of the teaching staff is international in these schools. That means that the rest of it, namely ninety percent, is still American.

Another thing that the coterie of the anti-charter schools boast is the recent imprisonment of some pseudo-journalists in Turkey as a part of Ergenekon investigation, which unveils the toady curtain of the deep state. It would be naive to assume that these journalists are ingenious. Once upon a time, they infiltrated into the arteries of Turkish journalism, and now they are toughed to be genuine journalists. Yet, they are not other than the puppets of the deep powers in the state. What they try to do is sedition and machination against the state. These pseudo journalists are not arrested because of the act of journalism, but the deep relationships that they have with the deep state.

Deceased Turkish President Ozal and former
US President George Bush were close buddies.

One last thing and I will wrap it up. Another thing that is pervade in their articles and comments is the allegation of recreating the Ottoman Empire from its ashes. The Ottoman Empire is not something stasis for years and now to be come to life again in a foreign land, the United States. Nobody is discussing the name or the nature of the current Turkish state. It is the Republic of Turkey, not the Ottoman Empire, and nobody is arguing the validity of this statement. Turks have the habit of adapting to the new culture in which they are in. Where ever they go, they bring peace and harmony along with them. Therefore, we should not be irritated by the idea of having Turkish teachers in our schools.

All in all, Americans should be proud of having an excess of diversity more than any other country in the world. Gulen schools, or gulen charter schools -whatever they call them- are American schools and serving the American kids. It is nonsense to vituperate these schools by bringing out the Turkey's internal affairs that has not got to do with the American education system. Turkey is a strong American ally and it will be so in the future.

The Mission Statement Again: Gulen Charter Schools Phrase Is A Canard - got 60 minutes?

Let's be clear here. Our site is a fact page that answers the false accusations regarding the

imaginary gulen charter schools in the US. It is imaginary because there is no such gulen charter school in reality. In fact, if we put it in a simplistic way, the reality is that there are a number

of Turkish managed charter schools in the US, and there are some teachers that are influenced by the Gulen's thoughts on education and altruism. That's it. If you wonder who Mr. Gulen is, he is an advocate of dialogue and a supporter of universal values.

Mr. Gulen loves children and
thinks about their education

Now it comes to the other facet of the fact. If it is so, then why a group of people, mostly comprising ex teachers of these so-called gulen schools, trying to boast a Gulen charter myth across the Internet. They launch free web pages, blogs, and produce YouTube videos for the sheer purpose of spreading a false image of these charter schools in people's minds. Where do they get this energy? How do they deal with their personal finance? How on earth these American teachers can know so much details about the domestic politics of Turkey? It reminds one that they have deep connections with the deep cults within the Turkish state, and they are fed by these enigmatic forces.

The crux of their argument is centered around the Gulen charter schools myth. This is an absolute canard. They insist on the term Gulen charter schools because they want to denigrate these schools by calling or rather labelling them as gulen charter schools so that such phrase will yield Islam and islamization in people's minds. It is ridiculous. First, we live in a country in which laws are taken seriously. If someone felt an atom of such phenomena either from the public, or the government, there would be serious probes on these so-called Gulen charter schools. Second, Mr. Gulen, who is a retired preacher live in seclusion in the Poconos, has never stated that he operates charter schools on his name. Is it possible for a single individual to run more than a hundred charter schools in more than thirty states? Sound minds never accept that.

If you reconsider of one of the recent articles that appeared in this site, you will end up with the conclusion that running a charter school is not an easy task. It is not enough to run a school per se. You have to be successful at the same time. If you cannot stand on the educational standards, then your business will definitely come to an end. Needless to say, charter schools are being run by the public money. In return, they are expected to offer sound education. It is not important, at this state, how they reach out this point of success. Inasmuch as charter schools meet the local and federal credentials, it is not a problem for the public how much they spend on them. We should also note it here that it is impossible to run a charter schools, even any school, without money. Here is the conventional formula that education coasts money, but ignorance coasts more than that. We should take no pity on the money that we spend for the education of our children. Charter schools, e.g. the so-called gulen charter schools, exactly do that for more than a decade before the public eyes.

Besides his vigorous activities in education,
Gulen is an advocate of dialogue.

Attacking these so-called gulen charters is a result of personal greed of some ex teachers of these schools. These teachers unfortunately put their personal interest ahead of the children's education. Once they had to leave their position in these schools due to their own indecencies, they turned out to be the ultimate enemies of their former employers. Sorry, guys. Nobody buys that. We do not do business like this in America. And you should have known that more than anybody else. If you are not loyal to your legal contract, then you have to bear the consequences. If your ambition leads you to do triple jobs concurrently, than you have to leave them all at once at the end. Teaching is a sacred duty on all of us. But if you do it as a profession and make your livelihood thorough it, then you have to act as professional in order to fulfill all the responsibilities of the act of teaching. Of course teachers ought to make money. But it is not only money, but also dedication and love that make one a respected teacher. Respect for your job begets respect for your person.

Q-A: did you watch gulen charter schools 60 minutes youtube videos?

In the final analysis, the narrative of the gulen charter schools is an urban legend and there is a secret agenda behind the creation of it. Turkish educators for more than a decade run charter schools and they are doing quite well especially in math and science. Gulen charter schools label is just a misconstruction in order to undermine the excellent job that these international educators have been doing. Instead of kudos them publicly, this anti-charter group attacks them in every occasion. Parents, as well as the American public, know the truth and applause these dedicated teachers. That's what we are doing here.