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 The Whole Elephant Charter Schools Proposed School Mission: The Whole Elephant Elementary Charter School (WEECS) at Flushing carries out the mission to establish an innovative education system which integrates the most frontier science of the West with the ancient science of mind-body-spirit from the East, with a goal to bring out the Master within each child whose unique passion and talent will be cultivated to blossom and whose mind will be cultivated to reach true maturity with great wisdom of human life and the entire universe. School Overview: The Whole Elephant Elementary Charter School (WEECS) at Flushing plan to open on September 1, 2014. Students will be admitted after Dr. Lotus King Weiss meet with the applicant students and their parents in one-on-one fashion and explain the mission and education program to the student candidates and parents; admission will be based upon first come first serve principle; the admitted students and their parents will first meet with the entire team of Master Educators consisting of leading experts and scholars in the field of Modern Life Science, Modern Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, Modern Western Medicine, Law, Western Philosophy and History, Chinese Language Arts, Chinese Martial Arts, Classical Chinese Dance, Chinese Music, Chess, Chinese Calligraphy, Painting and Poetry. Each student can choose one or more Master Educators as his or her primary Master, who will then be responsible for his or her individualized education program from k-5; each student will work closely with his or her Master(s) to develop the details of the curriculum tailored specifically for the student’s level and interest; all students will be offered standard lectures in listening, speaking, reading and writing of English and Chinese; all students are required to master both English and Chinese Language at our Charter School; open seminars will be given by Master Educators to all students in their area of expertise through out the school hours, at different levels, so that each student can choose, under the instruction of his or her primary Master, to receive the appropriate level teachings; science laboratories in the area of life science, computer science and Chinese Medicine will be established in the Charter School at the end of the first year, which will then be made available for all students. Besides mastering the knowledge of each specialized field offered by the Master Educators, each student will work closely with his or her primary Master in personal upgrading of their mind and heart nature; the ancient cultivation way of Falun Dada will be offered to all students at the Charter School; seminars on all forms of righteous religions from both the West and from the East will be offered to all students; The classical Chinese Texts teaching human morality, such as Sanzijin (Three Character Sutra) and Dizigui (Disciplinary Guide to Disciples) will be offered to all students. When students graduate from our Charter School, they shall be young scholars in Chinese Language and Culture, and young scientists of life, besides meeting the standards required upon them by the State Education Department of New York. The innovation of the education approach is based upon seven years of education research carried out by Dr. Lotus King Weiss at the Flushing Community; such an approach shall overcome the current existing blockage existing in most, if not all public schools: outdated contents of textbooks in all main fields of sciences; lack of individualized guidance and teaching to maximize the power of the young learners, especially young children from immigrants’ family facing major challenges in a new culture and language; not recognizing the immense power of the five thousand years of traditional Chinese culture in early childhood education; not recognizing the critical importance in moral education, wisdom education and disciple education; the loss of the art of education in the format of Master-Disciple relationship. The Motto is our Charter School is: to awake the Master within each Child; our operational principle is: Trust-Love-Respect.The enrollment and retention of students with disabilities will be carried out by offering sufficient information to the local community sites who frequently offer services to the disabled children; two of our founding board members are both parents of disabled children and are in close connection with families of disabled children; most of the Chinese children in the Flushing community are English Language learners; our strong English language programs will naturally attract these children; similarly, most of the students among the new Chinese immigrants are eligible applicants for the free and reduced price lunch program. Our Charter School will offer colorful and healthy Chinese style lunch program (besides standard Western Style food) for all students since Chinese food is an important part of Chinese Culture. 关于全象特许学校的介绍 法拉盛的妈妈们最大的梦想是让自己的孩子们在美国得到最好的教育。但是，妈妈们也常常觉得很无奈。因为她们不太会说英文，家长会时也不知该如何与校方交流。孩子在学校领回红牌，妈妈们就只能干着急。孩子英语成绩迟迟不能提高，妈妈们又只能省吃俭用将孩子送进五花八门的课后辅导班。应为不懂美国文化，妈妈们做人做事也不能堂堂正正，理直气壮，总有一种寄人篱下，离乡背井的消极心理。 美国的公立学校教育对中国孩子来说，如果不是因为语言的障碍，内容其实是很简单的。数理化教育落后中国国内的教育。对科学热衷的中国家长们看到孩子们学不到东西，也想办法送孩子们去各种补习班。总之，中国来的爸爸妈妈们，虽然对孩子们的未来在教育上很愿意投资，但在如何才能在美国培养好孩子们，确实是一个头痛的大问题。对于“成功的教育”，有些妈妈们也有辛酸的故事。辛辛苦苦，打工赚钱，为了孩子的教育，什么苦都吃了，什么罪都受了，孩子终于一口流利的英文，与“正宗”美国人一样的生活了，出人头地了，却再也无法和妈妈有任何共同语言了。妈妈的话，妈妈的心，妈妈的梦，孩子听不懂，看不见，为了功名一脚掉进了那浩浩荡荡的人间大染缸中。表面上的成功，是以妈妈彻底丢了孩子的孤苦为代价的。 中国人的孩子们在美国长大，大部分不再有中国传统文化的根了。在中国长大的孩子，因为是生活在共产党的体制下，中国传统文化是共产党的死敌，系统的洗脑让孩子们善恶好坏都很难分清，更谈不上真正的传统文化教育了。如此下去，中国传统文化在正规教育领域中是一个空白，无论是东方社会还是西方社会。
但是，越来越多的东西方父母们在近年来开始意识到中国传统文化教育对于孩子的未来的重要性。儒家，释家，道家，中国的五千年灿烂的文化，历史，礼仪，道德，科学，人文，医学，艺术，在现代社会的道德一日千里下滑的背景下，更显其珍贵无比，神通广大，博大精深。对于美国的中国移民们，真正的美国梦应该是让中国的传统文化在美国生根发芽，让在美国的世世代代，都在中国五千年文化的辉煌中滋养生息，在天人合一的理念下健康成长。对于美国的百姓，中国传统文化，是拯救经济文化医学法律政治科学的困境的最佳良药。
如何系统的将中国传统文化传到美国？公立教育系统，从幼稚园到高中，现存的公立中学或高中系统最多可以开始教中文，在公立小学还基本没有中文教育。若要美国教育部作出系统的将中国传统文化融入公立学校的主课中去，现在是不可能做到的。私立学校的教育，毕竟只为经济条件优越的孩子们提供，无法做到普及。
有幸的是，美国现在有一种学校，叫“特许学校”。和公立学校一样，特许学校的教育经费由联邦政府提供，有免税捐款平台，鼓励家长和社区的大力参与。和私立学校一样，特许学校的教材完全由建校团队自己来设计。只要特许学校的孩子们能成功的掌握州教育部要求的教育内容，在州考中成绩符合要求，特许学校就可以持续的得到联邦政府和州政府的教育经费。
全象特许学校将充分发挥特许学校的以上优势，扎根于纽约华人社区，系统的将中国传统文化融入到美国的中小学教育系统中，培养一流的双语人才。教育方法汇集中西方的精华：中国的“师父带徒弟”式和西方博士研究生院的“讲座研讨论文答辩”式。办校团队也汇集中西方专家学者和商人。全象特许学校肩负如下使命：
“建立一个新型的教育体系, 把西方最前沿的科学和东方的身心灵传统文化做一个完美的结合；我们的最终目标是唤醒每一个孩子，让他(她)们的激情和天份在循循善诱下开花结果，成就大师级的双语人才；具有对宇宙，人体，生命的真正成熟的大智大慧”
全象特许学校将于2013年9月1日正式开放, 第一批将招收120名学生, 主要从事小学教育项目，从幼稚园到五年级；另外还将招收140名学生，从六年级到12年级, 进行初中和高中教育项目。
我们学校的位置将在:
24 20帕森斯大道,法拉盛,纽约市,邮编:11357。
众所周知，法拉盛积聚了大部分中国移民的孩子,特别是一些刚刚来到法拉盛的中国大陆新移民的孩子,都急切的希望有一个以中国五千年传统文化为基础的教育系统,来滋养他们的身心灵健康，从而唤醒他们的荣誉感和自信心,让他们知道自己不是这个西方主流文化的局外人,而是一个身兼西方主流文化以及东方传统文化于一身的优秀人才，中国五千年的传统文化将成为他们人生的宝贵财富。这将是全象学校的特殊历史使命。
请您竭尽全力支持全象特许学校的成功。 谢谢您！
王彤文 博士
全象特许学校
电子邮件:celestrialwater@gmail.com
电话:201-206-3080
Confucius Teachings Charter School Confucius is a great teacher in Chinese history. He devoted his entire life to education. The mission of Confucius in his education was to turn learners into true scholars who reach such a goal through “Cultivate the Mind, Harmonize the Family, Govern the Nation and Bring Peace and Prosperity to the World”( 修身 齐家 治国 平天下). Therefore, the Confucius Teachings Charter School is based upon the philosophy of Confucius “Kindness, Loyalty, Etiquette, Wisdom and Faith” ( 仁 义 礼 智 信) and carries the mission of systematically introducing the authentic traditional Chinese Language and Culture to the young learners as the nutrients for the mind to prepare a new generation of bilingual experts who can play the role of inheriting the essence of traditional Chinese Culture, which is now considered by more and more people all over the world to be a precious gift to all of us in the modern world. To the new immigrant children from China, they have been facing major difficulties in entering the mainstream American Society due to language and culture barrier, poisonous influence of the communist mentality, as well as financial difficulties of the immigrant parents. Teachers in public schools are also facing difficulties in providing these children with sufficient help in assisting them to understand the American culture, history, government system and the law, which are essential for them to be an integral part of the local community. Under such a situation, more and more Chinese immigrant families are sending young children back to China to study the language and culture, although they were born here in America. When these children return to America, they usually are faced with emotional and mental issues and feel lost between the gaps of two different types of culture. The establishment of the Confucius Teachings Elementary/Middle/High Charter Schools will allow these children to fully master the authentic traditional Chinese culture which will nurture their mind and allow them to embrace with full maturity the gift from the Western World. On the other hand, for the young learners with the Western culture as their native heritage, the mastering of Chinese Language and Culture will similarly expand their wisdom, enlarge their vision and enhance their ability in all aspects. This is because the Chinese Language and Culture are a precious gift to all world people and have the innate power to transform the mind and heart for people to live in a life style of Being One with the Nature ( 天人合一) a life style that is key for health and happiness. Therefore, the Confucius Teachings Charter School shall be a school for children from all ethnic groups and will surely bring peace and prosperity to our community and bring a new stream of fresh air into the American Education System. All Core Curricula of English, Math, Social Studies and Science shall be taught in Chinese and English, and all students shall be trained to be bilingual in English and Chinese and also become scholars of Chinese Language and Culture, as a special feature of the graduates of our Charter School. 承传中华传统文化 培育中英双语人才 关于孔子曰特许学校的介绍 孔子是中国古代伟大的思想家，他创立的儒家学派几千年来对中国乃至整个东方文化产生了巨大的影响。孔子一生孜孜不倦、苦苦追求。他的教育思想、人才理念、治学精神和为人师表都赢得了亘古不绝的赞誉。孔子将毕生精力贡献给了教育事业，他的思想学说和事迹，后来汇编成一本书，成为《论语》。 孔子教学的主要对象是士，他的教育理念就是要把士培养成为君子。孔子认为，君子所应具有的品格可分为两方面：对己能“修己”，对人能“安人”、“安百姓”。儒家的治学思想承传千百年，使无数的儒生获得了睿智，走过了修身、齐家、治国、平天下的人生阶梯。 基于这种理念，孔子曰特许学校的建立旨在承传中华传统文化，为美国社会培育中英双语优秀人才。美国公立学校的教育与功课对于中国孩子来讲，如果没有语言上的障碍，内容其实是很简单的。而这些中国人的孩子们由于在美国长大，就逐渐失去了中国传统文化的根。没有忠孝节义的文化内涵，空有一张华人的面孔。因此，越来越多的东西方父母们已经意识到中国传统文化教育对于孩子未来的重要性。具有五千年历史的中华文化博大精深，源远流长，在人类道德水准日益下滑的现代社会，中华文化独特的历史、礼仪、道德、科学、人文、艺术更显得无比珍贵。 对于生活在美国的中国移民们来说，真正的美国梦应该是让中国的传统文化在美国生根发芽。中华传统文化的精华是天人合一的思想，这种理念是拯救美国经济、法律、政治、文化与科学困境的最佳良药。然而，在美国的公立教育系统中，现存的公立中学或高中才开始教中文，在公立小学基本没有中文教育，现行的教育系统不可能把中华传统文化融入到公立学校的主课中去。而私立学校则只为经济条件优越的孩子们提供教育，无法做到普及。 特许学校与公立学校一样，其教育经费由联邦政府提供，而且有免税捐款平台，鼓励家长和社区公众的大力参与。特许学校的教材则与私立学校一样，完全由建校团队自己来设计。只要特许学校的学生们能成功地掌握美国教育部要求的教育内容，在统一州考中成绩符合要求，特许学校就能持续地得到联邦政府和州政府的教育经费。 孔子曰特许学校目前正在筹建之中，它将充分发挥特许学校的优势，招聘全球最优秀的师资，扎根于纽约华人社区，把中华传统文化系统地融入到美国中小学教育系统之中，培养一流的双语人才。这所全新的学校将营造“切磋琢磨”、“待坐言志”宽松合作的学习环境，培养学生勤奋刻苦、坚韧不拔的治学品格，提倡实事求是、虚心向一切人请教的品性，弘扬和而不同的学习方法。办学团队将汇集中西方的专家学者和成功的企业家，把西方最先进的科学成果和东方的身心灵传统文化完美地结合在一起，最大限度地开启学生的智慧，激发学生的灵感和创意，成就对社会有责任感、语言能力超强的优秀双语人才。 孔子曰特许学校现正向联邦政府申请注册，计划于2014年9月1日正式开放。第一批将招收80名学生，从幼稚园到五年级进行小学教育；另外还将招收80名学生，从六年级到12年级进行初中和高中教育。招生人数根据需求将逐年递增。学校的地址将选在纽约皇后区图书馆附近的自由法拉盛犹太中心。 振兴华人社区，恢复中华文化传统，是每一位海外华人的历史使命。我们真诚地希望居住在纽约的每一位华人同胞都来支持我们的办学理念，共同弘扬中华传统文化，为我们未来的特许学校献计献策。我们将认真处理来自华人社区的每一份来信来电，社会公众的反馈与支持是办好特许学校的最有力的保障。 孔子曰特许学校 发起人：徐小明女士 History Dr. Lotus King Weiss was born in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, Main Land China, in 1967. Her parents were all intellectuals raised from poor farmers' family. At that time, China was suffering from the "fever" of the so-called "Cultural Great Revolution" (文化大革命). Ironically, Dr. Lotus King Weiss' Chinese name, 王彤文，which was given by her father, then a hot-blooded young follower of "Chairman Mao" (毛泽东), can be interpreted to be the meaning of: The King (王）of Splendidly Beautiful （彤) (a red color that is so special that can not be made in the human world, but was used frequently during the "Cultural Great Revolution" to be the abjectives in front of the name of the "Cultural Great Revolution" in this format: 红彤彤的文化大革命）Culture (文). It is apparent that her father was intoxicated by a beautiful culture which he might not know what it truly is, but believed that it was associated with the "Cultural Great Revolution", or at that time even belived that the "Cultural Great Revolution" itself is Her. The "Cultural Great Revolution" initiated by "Chairman Mao" was supposedly aimed to eradicate all "bad elements" within the Chinese Culture that were blocking the path of "Chinese Communist Party", which was upholding a glorious banner of "Bring Eternal Happiness to All World People" through the achievement of the "Communist Human Paradise".In this regard, the most splendid culture that was imprinted into the dreams of all of the young intellectuals' mind during the 1960's was a culture which promises to bring to the human world the happiness of human living that can compared to what had been described to be the life style in Heaven.Therefore, the Chinese Character, 彤，implies the glory and beauty of Heaven, at least, in this young father's mind. For this reason, he used this Chinese Character for his most beloved daughter. However, as history progresses, the true nature of the "Cultural Great Revolution" started to manifests, which involves the most cruel and violent abuse and disruption of human dignity, human conscience and many precious human lives. A splendid dream of heavenly happiness and beauty was shattered by the harsh reality of self-deception and self-distruction rooted in the fundamental weakness of human heart and the limitation of human mind. The "Cultural Great Revolution" in China lead to the abrupt downslides of the human morality of the entire nation, due to the death of a long lasting tradition which has allowed the Chinese people to stay afloat through the "floods" of the human world that could have totally wiped out humanity due to human degeneration, like the one occurred at the Noah's Arch age. One of the key elements that are essential for the survival of humanity, based upon the data gathered from the failed experiement of the "Cultural Great Revolution", is now revealed clearly to most of the thinkers and intellectuals: the Teachings of Human Morality. When the "Cultural Great Revolution" smashed the traditional teachings of human morality, which were initiated by great thinkers and educators like Confucius, the fate of China was totally changed. On October 21, 2002, when Dr. Lotus King Weiss (under the name Dr. Eden Wang) was invited to give a speech at the National Press Club at Washington D.C. during the Chinese Communist Party Head (Jiang Zemin) visting then U.S. President Bush's ranch house in Texas (http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/979.html), Dr. Lotus King Weiss pointed out that China is turning into a Malignant Cancer because Chinese people's minds are controlled by a foreign entity, called "The Communist Party". At that time, Dr. Lotus King Weiss did not realize what was awaiting for her when her journey as a scientist in life science field was crossing the "boundary" and extended into a new area which is no longer composed of "molecules" which she could meditate upon in her quiet and spacious office located in downtown Seattle, as the Principle Investigator who was leading an international team of scientists to examine the molecular mechanims of Cancer. In the immediate following one week after her speech, she was facing legal divorce from her husband, who claimed that she was practicing "evil cult" and his lawyer told him that he could take everything away from her, including her most beloved son, Noah Wang Genatossio. The "evil cult" her husband was referring to, in early November of 2002, is called "Falun Gong", also known as "Falun Dafa". At that time, Dr. Lotus King Weiss was still carrying the Chinese name, 王彤文, a name that is assoicated with many famous and glorious accomplishment in life science field, as a "rising start" at Harvard Medical School, being the author for three publications in Science and one in Cell, an accomplishment that is usually unimaginable to be assoicated with a Chinese woman, since even the most famous scientist in current Chinese Academy of Science has not even achieved such a high level of academic success. However, 王彤文 was now facing one major dilemma: her heart tells her that Falun Dafa is True Science, while the " Science World " seems to understand that Falun Dafa is "anti-Science"; so if she chooses to continue to live as a Falun Dafa practitioner, she would be considered by the mainstram "Science World" including all of her family members to be practicing "evil cult" while if she chooses to cotinue to live as a famous "World-class Scientist", she would think in her heart that she is practicing "evil cult": to play God in giving the general public a false promise of finding the solution of birth-aging-sickness-death using millions of public fundings while she no longer believes that such a way of research can truly help any people; such a realization was clearly expressed in her speech at Harvard Future Science Forum in the spring of 2002, with a title, "A Wake up Call from the Microcosm" (http://www.pureinsight.org/node/195). At that time, the only way that she would continue to stay in her field as a research scientist and justify the use of public funding was to directly adddress this following question: "What is the role of human spirit in the molecular behaviors of human cells?" However, such an option soon was taken away. In 2004, her laboratory was forced to shut down, even though she was at the peak of her career as a research scientist in the most frontier field of life science: the study of molecules that are in charge of the birth, aging, sickness and death of cells, the building blocks of our human body. Apparently, her understanding of Falun Dafa as a profound science of mind-body-spirit lead her into a path that is full of dramatic stories of all types (http://www.thewholeelephant.info/Save-Sentient-Beings.html). So, a child carrying the name of a most splendid dream of a young father who followed "Chairman Mao" and hoping for the human world to enjoy the happiness of what would be found in heaven was interpreted by this child to be "finding a solution for human sufferings". Such a path lead her to find Falun Dafa (www.falundafa.org). Here is her journey: In 1984, she first went into medical school in Shanghai (Shanghai First Medical University), then at the age of 21 (1988), she carried 30 dollars sewed tightly into the inner pocket of her clothes by her mother, borrowed by her father, flied to the other end of the earth to seek for the magic weapon to eradicate her most worthy opponent: Cancer, which took the life of her most beloved grandmother, who was her first childhood teacher. In 1992, she obtained her doctorate degree and entered Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospotal. In the next seven years, she published ground breaking articles to reveal the top secrets of a group of molecules who control the birth, aging, sickness and death of the human body and are linked to all human diseases due to their abnormalities; in 1999, she established her own independent cancer immunology signal transduction laboratory in a brand new large research center at Seattle Washington (the Benaroya Research Institute), affiliated with the Unversity of Washington; in the same year, she was elected to be the 100 top scientists chosen to be recruited by the Chinese Government to establish large National Laboratories in the Chinese Academy of Science; at the end of 1999, she encountered an experience that she described vividly to a reporter from Dajiyuan in 2008 (http://www.thewholeelephant.info/Persecution-in-America.html). In 2000, afer she tried Tibetan Buddhism, she received a book, called "转法轮" and the English translation version, called "Zhuan Falun" (Turning the Law Wheel), by Mr. Li Hongzhi. At the same time, she also received a book called "法轮大法大圆满法". She studied these books and started to learn the Falun Dafa exercises and immediately found great health benefits and beyond. In 2001, she started to collaborate with a female scientist named Dr. lili Feng to analyze a set of orginal data sent from Dr. Feng's studies of Falun Dafa practitioners' immune cells. In 2002, her public speech at Harvard on this topic (http://www.pureinsight.org/node/195) lead her to be black-listed by the Chinese Government; at the end of 2002, she reached the realization that China was turning into a malignat cancer and the cure for cancer comes from pulic education instead of laboratory research. In 2003, she survived from her own mental and emotional and spiritual trial of losing her marriage and her rights as a mother for her most beloved son, and also the loss of her option to continue to work as a principle investigator in the modern life science field. In 2004, she started to work on the establishment of her own research and education institute and the decision was finalized at the end of the year of 2004, after she witnessed the dying process of another modern life science leader, Dr. Annita Roberts, who tested all cancer therapies on herself as the head of the Chemoprevention Center of National Cancer Institute, after she was diagnosed to suffer from late stage gastric cancer (http://www.anitaroberts.net/). The death of Annita Roberts was the clear signal for 王彤文 to end her journey in modern life science field and decided to start a new research platform that can pave a new path of true life science. The name of the institute, the Whole Elephant Institute (全象学院） was born in May 2004, in Washington D.C., under the support of a team of local Falun Dafa practitioners. In October 2004, 王彤文was invited by the Tsinghua University, Department of Life Science, to consult on a research project and also was invited to give a speech at the Science Acadmy Member Conference in Changsha City, Hunan Province, the hometown of "Chairman Mao". Due to her being outspoken about the research data gathered by Dr. Lili Feng on the anti-aging effects of practicing Falun Dafa, she was followed by plain clothes policemen and was illegally taken into the police station of Shanghai Hongqiao Airport, where she was subjected to interrogation but were soon turned into her lecture rooms for the policemen and policewomen there to clarify the truth of Falun Dafa, and finally was released and taken to the train station with great respect by the policemen there. She did the same for all people she encounted in China and found out that Chinese people were simply awaiting to hear the truth and they treated her as a scholar with great respect. In 2005, she arrived in New York and started to officially register for the Whole Elephant Institute, at Flushing New York. At the same year, her parents and brother worked together to force her to go back to China, possibly believed some offer from the local Chinese Government, and upon detecting her resistance, applied illegal means to take away all of her legal rights over her properties using a fake medical diagnosis issued by a young female scientist who was using Drosophila (Fly) to study human mental diseases. Her name is: Amelia Gallitano Mendel (http://bms.med.arizona.edu/faculty/amelia-gallitano-md-phd). In 2005, 王彤文 found herself to be on the street with no money in the bank and no home to return to and also the risk of being treated as a mental patient to be taken back to China by her family members to be put into mental hospital, where she knows that many Falun Dafa practitioners were tortured to death by being injected with nerve poisonous drugs (http://faluninfo.net/article/1005/Psychiatric-Torture-of-Falun-Gong-Practitioners-Widespread-Says-UN-Submission/); she was trusted by a mother who was facing to lose the custody of all of her three boys and was asked to marry Mr. Brian Scott Weiss, who at that time was facing mental breakdown due to the pain of marriage crisis and who fell in deep love with her after she treated him with great compassion and showed him how to practice Falun Dafa. Mr. Brian Scott Weiss became the co-signer for the registration of the Whole Elephant Institute which was given Certificate of Corporation on July 15, 2005. In June 2006, when the collaborator of 王彤文, Dr. Lili Feng was dying as "a cancer patient" and was depicted by the Chinese Government Hate Propaganda as another example of how "Falun Gong misled a famous scientist to give up faith in medicine and science" (http://www.facts.org.cn/Feature/ofdf/200912/t103584.htm), 王彤文 was carrying her three-month old baby daughter, Ms. Lotus Blossom Weiss, to visit Flushing for the first time, but was viewed by some fellow Falun Gong practitioners to be "problematic": "she should be in Harvard to be a big scientist and she should not be with a man who is not even divorced legally and now have a child with him"; "she lost her job, her husband divorced her and she also lost all rights as a mother"; "her own brother claimed to everyone that she is mentally ill, and even tried to discourage Mr. Brian Scott Weiss from marrying her"; "she walks with black men and homeless men as if they are her brothers; she helped the nephew of 罗干 to obtain political assylum while 罗干is a man that is known by all fellow Falun Dafa practitioners to be the leading persecutor in China and therefore considered to be the killer and therefore the enemy of many innocent Falun Dafa practitioners". Questions were frequently raised among the fellow Falun Dafa practitioners in Flushing regarding this strange character, 王彤文："Who is she?" "Is she truly mentally ill?" "Is she a spy sent from the Chinese Communist Government?" " Is she moraly corrupt?" "Where is her financial resource if she claims that she provide all services for free?" "Why does not she go to get a job that can make a lot of money if she is truly a professor from Harvard?" "Why does not her hubband support her when she comes to Flushing and make her life easier if he truly loves her so much as she claims?" So 王彤文was never considered to be a member of the Falun Dafa practitioner community in Flushing. She was simply too much for anyone to understand. However, 王彤文and her one year old daughter, Ms. Lotus Blossom Weiss, were the first to open up a community service center in Flushing and announced to the community openly with dignity that 王彤文is a persecuted scholar from Harvard. She was helping people to learn Falun Dafa exercises in her center and also help people to openly denounce from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP); soon the first office of Global Center to Quit CCP was initiated in Flushing, in the same office where she started the Whole Elephant Institute. Her husband, Mr. Brian Scott Weiss (although they could not become legally married until September 2006, she consider him to be her legal husband from the time they were blessed by her own parents before she became pregnant, under "putative marriage") used his father, Mr. Herman Weiss' Sign World Inc. to make the first two large signs for this Center and worked with his brother, Mr. David Weiss to install these signs onto the Building on Main Street, in front of the Queens Library at Flushing. She did everything openly with dignity and never hided her identity as a Falun Dafa practitioner and consider this name as an honor. However, most of the Chinese immigrants in Flushing were afraid of hearing that name. Whenver she started an office, as soon as her identify as a Falun Dafa practitioner was announced, she was subjected to discrimination and ultimately lost her office space, to the degree that she almost could not find a stable home for her and her daughter. In 2008, the Flushing Hate Crimes occurred (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG-NmIGkOpk). 王彤文 and her daughter were surrounded by a large group of people whose hate were stirred up by the misleading news and subjected to public humiliation. Mr. Brian Scott Weiss decided that Flushing was no longer a place for her and her daughter, but she decided to continue to stay and carry out public education. The escalated anxiety caused Mr. Brian Scott Weiss to decide to request for legal custody to take total charge of the care of their daughter. 王彤文initially decided to fight for her rights, but ultimately decided to take no action to avoid the sufferings from her new family members whose intention was kind. So 王彤文let her three and half year old daughter to return to her family residing in Oceanside, Long Island, in September 2009, while she continued to station in Flushing for the work of the Whole Elephant Institute (http://www.thewholeelephant.info/Our-Little-President-7-20-2011.html). To make sure that she will never forget the promise she made to her daughter in working together as ONE, she decided to change her name into Lotus King Weiss (http://www.thewholeelephant.info/Flushing-Experience.html). Since 2009, Dr. Lotus King Weiss devoted all her efforts in the work of the Whole Elephant Institute and also started to shouder the responsibilities to help the normal operation of the Korean Community Center of New York, a non-profit organization which was turned into a target of hate crimes due to the association with Falun Dafa practitioners. Dr. Lotus King Weiss has since established strong community networks to serve communities of all different ethnic groups and has been focusing upon the establishment of innovative education programs. In 2012, she submitted the first application to the Charter School Office of the Department of Education of New York State. Then, the issue of her being a Falun Dafa practitioner immediatedly became a target of media, both in America and in China. Although the Charter School design touched very little regarding the teaching of Falun Dafa, the center attack point towards her efforts in building a high quality Charter School has been on the issue of her being a Falun Dafa practitioner. The application was not allowed to go through the standard review process last year, immediately after a report on her at the local media, http://www.timesledger.com/stories/2012/33/chinesecharterschool_ft_2012_08_16_q.html Soon a media in China published the following news about the Whole Elephant Charter School: In this report, the Whole Elephant Charter School was stated to be rejected by the Department of Education of New York State after reviewing the application, since "after careful consideration, the State Eduation Department consider 王彤文to be carrying out a project of "Community Hate Crimes". Such a statement is also linked directly to the original report by New York Daily News. A Falun Dafa practitioner, Ms. Xiaoming Xu, was initially a co-applicant for the Whole Elephant Charter School (Middle and High School), was repeatedly puzzled by this phenomena and finally suggested that Dr. Lotus King Weiss should not use her name to apply, but do work behind the scene, and that she shall take a new name if Dr. Lotus King Weiss would like to continue to work on the Charter School project. She finally suggested the name, 孔子曰特许学校。 However, she stated that she does not want to be bothered too much by such a project, since she is feeling overlly burdened by the negativity assoicated with Dr. Lotus King Weiss among the Falun Dafa practitioners community. To many local practitioners, Dr. Lotus King Weiss really has again challenged everyone's notions: she recently even tried to make friend with a "evil" woman who has set up a street booth to openly called Falun Gong as "evil cult". She also made friends with an American man who always was waving the Chinese Communist Party Flag whenever there is an important events associated with Falun Dafa practitioners. For some strange reasons, these "evil" people somehow show great respect to Dr. Lotus King Weiss. Is this good evidence that Dr. Lotus King Weiss is a Chinese Communist Party Spy? To Ms. Xiaoming Xu, Dr. Lotus King Weiss had been a great friend and she knew what had happened to her and was always standing up to explain to fellow Falun Dafa practitioners that Dr. Lotus King Weiss was innocent. however, when pressure was too much, she was ready to quit. However, Dr. Lotus King Weiss believes in Ms. Xiaoming Xu's passion in making a difference in public education of children here in America. Someday, Xiaoming will be strong enough to stand next to her to bring traditional Chinese culture to the whole world. At that time, many more experts in Chinese language and culture will be joining them as well. More detailed information and progress shall be posted on this website. Comments and suggestions are warmly welcomed! The Managing Organization for the establishment of the upcoming six Confucius Teachings Charter School and six Whole Elephant Charter School will be the Whole Elephant Institute, before the Confucius Teachings Charter School Association is officially registered for normal operation. All Interested community members and international scholars and educators are warmly welcomed to join this great effort. For futher information and for submitting suggestions and comments, please contact: Dr. Lotus King Weiss, Ph.D. The Whole Elephant Institute Phone: 201-206-3080 |
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