Posted on 02/24/2005 4:18:24 PM PST by Conservative Firster
i think I get it.
BUMP
Worse than any of these is sharing the class with ESL students. The teacher can teach only as fast as the slowest student. Native kids lose.
Its not the ESL kids fault, its just a fact.
ESL is big time money these days so don't look for this problem to go away. it's a lose-lose situation for everyone except high adminstration.
So,why isn't Nebraska double checking that meatpacking plants are complying with employment regulations?
See folks,in a capitolist market its supposed to work this way:
Labor rates are determined by the availability of workers qualified for the task who are willing to accept the wages the employer offers.
If there are no workers willing to work for the wages offered, the employer usually has to offer higher wages to attract workers.
If there exists a surplus of workers willing to accept smaller wages for employment, the employer lowers the wage offer.
Think back to the Y2K years.
IT workers commanded top wages for their skills.There were relatively few of them to meet the high IT labor demand.
15 years later,there is an excess of IT workers, and IT wages are driven down.
Since there appears to be a shortage of employees applying to work in the manual labor fields, one would logically assume wages would naturally rise to attract needed employees.
Why do people assume manual labor must automatically be exempt from the normal, logical rules of supply/demand market pricing?
In this case it is Nebraska meatpackers, but it is actually nationwide, that some employers refuse to observe the basic laws of supply and demand, regarding wage rates.
Enforce the employment laws of supply and demand.
Meatpackers may command 150K a year, and IT workers may be worth about 16K.
Yeah...and forced busing was a godsend to our school systems.
Whites are definitely SEPARATISTS!
Is there a law against that?
In 1953 there was a massive redistricting effort, throughout the state, which was fairly successful. Most one room country schools, including the one I attended, were eliminated within a few years, there were forces at work at that time, which were trying to create a one school per county system in all the rural countys, the small town school districts stood up, and fought it, and won. Painting something as Racism has worked well for 40 years. It looks like the consolidation crowd has noticed, and is using it to achieve their goal.
That is because all those illegal immigrants are just using land that those American crops and plants do not like.
This is a very slanted report. What I have not seen here is a true report of what is happening and why it is happening. The school districts that the state wants to abolish are the result of a compromise more than 50 years ago to protect one-room schoolhouses (the "elementary school" only districts). It has nothing to do with "foreign students".
The one-room schoolhouses are VERY costly and the cost is passed onto the taxpayers in the urban parts of the state. If the locals wanted to pay for the ENTIRE cost of the school district themselves, I would have no a problem with it. As it is, it is a bunch of one-room schoolhouses in western Nebraska that I am paying for because they don't want to merge with larger districts that go all the way from kindergarten through high-school. They save on a bus ride for their kids. But, it costs me.
Don't believe everything you read from a ideological source.
"Watch for new subdivisions sprouting up in the outlying communities."
Like these?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1340396/posts?page=1
AUSTIN - Third-world-like conditions that exist in Nueces County and other parts of South Texas in colonias could come closer to being eradicated if a new bill becomes law.
Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, D-McAllen, filed a bill Wednesday seeking to end the construction of colonias, which are underdeveloped neighborhoods which are usually past paved roads and in patches of land without municipal water and sewer lines.
"We have colonias with no running water, no drainage, no septic tanks. And when it rains, it floods," said Hinojosa, who represents Nueces County. "People cannot get out of the house. Kids cannot go to school, and you have health problems associated with this."
The bill's two-pronged approached would allow Nueces County to receive state and federal grants that have historically been reserved for border communities, and it would put demands on developers.
Under the legislation, developers must get a plat, a legal document approved by Nueces County commissioners, that includes a map of a subdivided property to ensure adequate roads, sewage, drainage, water and other necessities.
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