Posted on 01/09/2007 9:06:29 PM PST by Nachum
Imagine sending your kids off to school, but when they get to the bus they are told they can't get on because they speak English.
That's right, English.
It happened to a few children in St. Paul and now the school district is apologizing.
Rachel Armstrong sent her kids to pick up the bus as usual Monday, but after the driver let the kids on, he told them he would not pick them up again. He even said he wouldn't take them home that afternoon.
Armstrong left work early Tuesday, forced to pick up her kids from Phalen Lake Elementary School.
Her twin girls, 10, and her son, 8, were kicked off their regular school bus. They were told by the bus driver the route is for non-English speaking students only.
"I was furious. I was at work and I was just mad." Armstrong said. "I felt like we were being discriminated because we speak English. Just because they speak English, they can't ride the school bus. I mean, this is America, right?"
Administrators at St. Paul Public Schools admit the district made a mistake when it stranded the kids at school Monday.
However, the district points out, that particular bus route serves one of three language academies. The one at Phalen Lake is for Hmong students learning English.
The academies all have separate bus routes to keep its students together.
The district decided to enforce the separate routes beginning Monday, but it did not tell the Armstrong family.
"It is our responsibility to ensure the safety of these kids and we made a mistake. The kids should have gotten home that day," Dayna Kennedy, public relations representative.
The district also discovered the Armstrongs no longer live in the Phalen Lake School boundary because they moved last year.
So even thought the district apologized, if they want to still go to Phalen, they are going to have to get their own ride.
This is where "multiculturalism" is headed, off the deep end. Politics is like a circle, once you go so far left you start going in this extreme direction.
Wait till we have the "no white" drinking fountains, we're headed back towards segregration, and it will be at primarily the hands of the left, just like it was the first time.
Pig-Latin always works for me...;0)
If you love your children you will work to make your representatives stop funding the NEA and teach your children yourself. Otherwise suffer!
JMHO
Interesting the Hmong get their own bus.
Wow. I wonder what would have happened if a kid got thrown off a bus for not knowing English? Paging the ACLU...
What I want to Know! Is what Language are they supposed to be Speaking? St.Paul?....Minnesota......Arabic?
So even thought the district apologized, if they want to still go to Phalen, they are going to have to get their own ride.
Why should the district pay money to pick up kids who don't live in their district?
So kids learning English must not be exposed to English in daily life? Segregating these kids, especially below middle school level will retard their learning of English. I know many Vietnamese emigre families that speak Viet in the home. Their children learn English very quickly in school with, at most, an ESOL teacher for an hour a day. It is my observation that the ESOL is not even necessary for more than a few. Their parents encourage the English and would totally oppose language segregation. They want their children to mix and be Americans. By speaking Viet in the home they avoid giving their children strong accents in their English.
What I want to Know! Is what Language are they supposed to be Speaking? St.Paul?....Minnesota......Arabic?
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Good Point,,,Why Does The Child Have To Speak At All ???
I bet somebody gets "Burned" over this crap!!...
Stupid "liberal think". "Oh, we're going to coddle you to the grave so that you never have to learn English, just starch our shirts the way we like you to and make sure our dish is made with the extra wide noodles, ha, ha"./s
The headline is extremely misleading and probably purposefully written to irritate.
They were not "kicked off" for "speaking English".
People really need to read this more closely before getting to excited about it.
Somehow, I picture a liberal headline writer saying to his buddies: "Watch what kind of reaction this one gets from the right wing nut jobs!"
Segregating these kids onto non-English speaking buses is bad enough, they don't have to invent headlines to irritate people. BTW, I think that most of the "right wing nut jobs" here can read and understand exactly what they're reading.
I would not agree with that based on some of the comments I am seeing here.
Which reply are you talking about specifically?
Lawsuit time. It used to be the favorite weapon of the leftscum. Well, what's good for the goose...
So even thought the district apologized, if they want to still go to Phalen, they are going to have to get their own ride.
The cheating out-of-district parents were caught when they complained!
The law of unintended consequences strikes again!
Communist actually. Most are so weak they want gubmint to control them.
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