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But education has often been found to be a profitable experience. Especially in the private sector, where wages can be as little as $12 per hour for staff that may be motivated by idealism...and immune to overwork. If
you look at a classroom as a revenue-generator, let's say 22 high schoolers
at, for example, $8,500 per year, each room generates about $180,000 income
each year. Unlike public Private school wages are a small fraction of public school salaries, and often lack benefits. For example, -PUBLIC SCHOOL: a starting public school teacher salary might be $30,000, and last-step might be in the $60,000 range...plus benefits, like complete health care and $3,000 per year retirement. -PRIVATE SCHOOL: starting salaries can be as little as $8 per hour, and even experienced teachers often make as little as $14.00 per hour...without health benefits, and without retirement. So out of that $180,000 per year in gross revenues per room, an astute manager could keep wage, benefits, burden, allocation, debt service, and so on, down to the $45,000-$60,000 range, leaving excellent gross margins. That is, if one can contain wages, and cloak the whole thing in religious terms, this could be a good investment opportunity...and who will argue against building a harmless High School, even if it is on an Indian Burial ground and the sacred "mother village" of the Juaneno/Acjachemen people? ------------------------------ You can email to < TITLE="mailto:TBUSCH@Buschfirm.com>" TARGET="_blank">mailto:TBUSCH@Buschfirm.com>, Mr. Busch has received, and answered, the criticism that JSERRA was to be built on an Indian graveyard. Busch states that the High School plan has been altered, "...respectfully leaving the Burial ground for sport field and layering another 3-4 feet of earth over the grave site so the burial remains will not be disturbed. This site has been studied for 10 years and contrary to public statements by Native Americans the burials are located and mapped. We will work around disturbing them. There will be open sport fields over them. We are building only on about 2-3 acres. Our website is being updated with the new site plan..." Well darn those troublesome "public statements by Native Americans", anyway. But no one knows where all the graves are located. For example, 1. Hellman Mesa (http://SealBeach.org) despite serious warnings and significant opposition, the "archaeological investigation" did NOT turn up any sign of the graves. It certified the site as OK to bulldoze, because all resources were "known". Instead, the bulldozers uncovered 20 ancient graves, so far, and the project was abruptly stopped due to this "train-wreck" on top of ORA-260 through ORA-264 and other "known" sites. 2. Newport Beach Back Bay, ORA-64, ancient graves numbering between 650 and 800, mostly juveniles, were uncovered during the course of bulldozing. The Most Likely Descendant spirited the bodies away, apparently to expedite construction. "Over 100 [excavations] were made by so-called professional archaeologists and they failed to find human remains representing 600 individuals...". Many other examples exist. Putiidhem is worth preserving, according to a 1998 report on ORA-855 (its designation as a sacred site). Here is what one archaeologist stated about the Putiidhem site: "Unless you have X-ray vision, it's impossible to say how many more burials are down there..." (H. Kroeper, LAT 9/16/02) Even if all the graves were known, and avoided, would building athletic fields for an educational institution be a respectful use of a cemetery? JSERRA does not seem to know much about these issues of our First Nation and the relevant laws. For example, at the SJC City Council meeting, the JSERRA forces tried to state that "the most likely descendant, as appointed by the state commission" had OK'd the project. However,
current practice is that the Most Likely Descendant (referred to as "MLD")
is selected by the Native American Heritage Commission and notified by
them only after human The fact that an MLD serves on one project does NOT mean that such a person is the ONLY MLD, nor does it mean that the MLD is going to be selected for other projects. In this case, JSERRA was correct in that Mr. Belardez did once serve as an MLD (in the case of ORA-64, above), but it was ONLY for that project. If and when the situation arises that human remains are found in ORA-855 (Putiidhem), that would be up to the NAHC to decide. There is no special status to being an MLD, except it makes the MLD eligible for selection to decide on human remains of ancestors for which the MLD is the "most likely descendant". So the support of one MLD for the JSERRA project does NOT confer the blessing of the state, the other members of the community, or anyone else but the MLD. Mr. Busch seems anxious to defend the position and value of the JSERRA project to individual who email him. You could do so at: tbusch@buschfirm.com Back to T.O.C. 2
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