Posted on 02/25/2005 8:16:55 PM PST by WindOracle
Sure liberals, let them take over whole school districts while they're at it.
After all, it is "their" land that we stole from them, right?
< /sarcasm >
I know they're not all children of illegals, but many of them are. The American taxpayers are footing the bill for another country to infiltrate our schools.
Nice!
[You can read racism into this, but I read more of an issue of social class.]
Or you could be correct, and read it as an issue of government failure in public schools.
"After all, it is "their" land that we stole from them, right? "
some of us and our families decided to build things like dams , power plants, roads, libraries hospitals, sewers, parks , malls and schools ect.. Others decided not to do these things . If those others who now claim this is land issue, why dont they squat in desert where the is oodels of land and they are free to build their own infrastructure? Somehow I don't think this is really a land issue.
"Would be nice if we had vouchers "
yes I am for that, but that would make too much sense.
In fact, prop 187 which passed by a whopping 60 some percent would have addressed some of the problem. Gray Davis shopped the prop off to the 9th circuit and it was struck down as un-Constitutional.
So much for the people of California having a say in their own destiny.
Thanks again, liberals.
In Los angeles 40% of the students are English Language Learners Most, but not all of the English Language Learners are illegal immigrants or the children of illegal immigrants.
In 2003-04, about 305,000 LAUSD students were native Spanish speakers, about 94 percent of the district's students learning English as a second language. Their Academic Performance Index, is below average and they repesent 65% of the dropouts in the district and those who stay are are among the lowest scorers on the California High School Exit Exam. Only 53 percent of passed the math portion, and 57 percent passed the language portion. Compare this to the other students in the district, 85 percent passed the math portion and 88 percent the language portion.
The growth in the number of these students in the last dacade has doubled accounting for the district's entire population growth, according to the Department of Education.
I guess to some extent that is chickens coming home to roost, since it was pseudoscience embraced by Europeans that led to this wrongheaded thinking. They created racial theories to justify their imperialism over "inferior" races. Now that idea has grown into a mindset that will probably be impossible to eliminate.
The stupidity in this is exemplified by the fact that an Egyptian (classified black by many) very likely has much more in common, genetically, with with an Italian (classified white) than with a Zulu (also classified black). A Morrocan African almost certainly has more in common genetically with a Hispanic from Spain, than native of Zimbabwe.
Racial classification is the ROOT of racism.
While our diverse backgrounds are a good deal of what has propelled this nation to it's status in the world, it is only because we assimilate, taking on good aspects of the cultures, while discarding that which is lesser. Those who refuse to assimilate, who wish to transform this into a copy of their own cultures, stand in the way of America continuing that rise to greatness.
"Diversity" and "Division" have the same word at the root... DIVIDE. People are not brought together by celebrating their "diversity", the ways they are different... they are brought together by emphasizing the things they have in common
"prop 187 which passed by a whopping 60 some percent would have addressed some of the problem. Gray Davis shopped the prop off to the 9th circuit and it was struck down as un-Constitutional."
Had the federal government carried out its responsibility to stop illegal immigration and addressed the issues of legal immigration, California taxpayers would not be facing the massive expense of providing thousands of new classrooms.
"People are not brought together by celebrating their "diversity", the ways they are different... they are brought together by emphasizing the things they have in common"
yes!
The harm done to us is so egregious that the federal govt. doesn't even want to talk about it.
More and more white families are trying to send their kids to private schools instead of the fine new community school, but there really aren't many private schools around here--it's a bloody long commute to a private school in the morning, even if you can afford it. If you can't come up with an extra $50,000 per year to send two children to private school, like me, your kids will not have many friends in the public school.
My son, now finishing fifth grade in an increasingly dark neighborhood school, adores the school and his teachers but hasn't made many friends. The friends he's made have been black, not Hispanic. The black kids are Americans and share our values and interests. The Hispanic kids try to beat him up because his hair is blonde and his eyes are blue. Some of the kids are very nice, but again, as in the article, we just don't have much in common. My kid rides horses and does historic reenacting for a hobby and lives in a house full of antiques; his parents are an editor and a scientist. What's he going to have in common with these unfortunate children, some of whom live in shocking filth? They resent him, and I don't blame them. When we try to reach out to them they steal from us.
I once had the word 'diversity' defined for me in a business situation by a young black woman.
"It means," she said, "getting rid of all those fifty year old white guys."
Says it all.
Remember when Clinton was in office, we had to fight for kosovo cause an ethic population was being displaced by another, and the human rights violations were too much for a country to stand by and do nothing? In the meantime families living in Santa An California for example were packing up and leaving for fear of their safety due to an illegal invasion to their community.
Or how about more people were killed in Los Angeles by gangs, fueled by the Mexican mafia than was killed in Beirut a few years back during a UN declared state of war... go figure?
The flight is predictable. Public shools worked, for a while, when we had a common culture with shared values. The breakdown of our cultural values combined with a monopolistic government education structure drove the situation rapidly past the tipping point.
We currently have an interesting situation here in the greater Charlotte, NC area (Mecklenburg County) where Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) is one of largest school systems in the country with over 100,000 students and chock full of every sympton of failed education. There is a CMS secession movement brewing in the suburban parts of our county. The story is likely to get bigger and begin to draw national coverage. Stay tuned!
Sorry, what I meant to say instead of "Reading articles like these" and meant to say "Reading posts such as yours".
just what I was thinking ...I've seen this syndrome for decades...people spouting off about what parents should do with their kids - until they have kids of their own , and then the light comes on
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