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Posted on 09/20/2007 9:48:23 AM PDT by Hydroshock
Some Oregon high schools are adopting Mexico's public school curriculum to help educate Spanish-speaking students with textbooks, an online Web site, DVDs and CDs provided free by Mexico to teach math, science and even U.S. history.
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The Oregon Department of Education and Mexico's Secretariat of Public Education are discussing aligning their curricula so courses will be valid in both countries.
Similar ventures are under way in Yakima, Wash., San Diego, Calif., and Austin, Texas.
"Students come to us with such complex issues," said Tim King, director of Clackamas Middle College and Clackamas Web Academy, where a virtual course using Mexico's learning materials got started this week.
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I just have to say that I am so happy that my tax dollars are there to educate Mexicans with their curriculum.
It’s what I always hoped my tax money would be used for.
I don’t think this is legal.
Egads! Mexicanization of America!
Whenever Oregon does something crazy, it only attracts more crazies to Oregon.
Clinton/Bush and the rest of both parties have sat idly by while the USA has been colonized.
Why should we follow the example of a third world country?
Time for separation of school and state.
This from the same state that once outlawed private schools. Fortunately the US Supreme Court struck down the law.
Mexico teaching Americans about their history.
I agree, we should examine these history texts carefully, and make sure they have as balanced a presentation of Mexico/US historical relations as our own textbooks have.
In general, since we seem to be stuck with de facto immigration, illegal or otherwise, it makes some sense to get free books to teach them with. The educated are generally productive and make a contribution wherever they are liviing. The uneducated are much more likely to place a social/economic burden on the place where they live. So I say, “viva la educacion”, so long as it is fair and accurate.
It also makes sense that education in any language improves learning over all. I know that when I studied Spanish in high school, my English, especially spelling, skills improved quite a bit. Since it is also easier to learn in your early language, subsequent learning of the same subjects in another language is facilitated. From what I have observed of various immigrants, including my grandparents, the more educated ones are more insistant that their children learn English well.
I'm speechless......
Good Lord, this is a horrible idea!!!
How can you even think of justifying it? The illegals don’t belong here in the first place; send them home.
The legal immigrants can learn English like those that went before them. Keeping them illiterate in English is doing them no favors.
My grandparents came from the old country and spoke their native language at home. My father, born and raised in the US, couldn’t speak English until he went to school. They thought he was retarded at first because he didn’t respond then they spoke to him until they realized that he didn’t speak English.
He continued to speak the family’s native language at home and when he graduated from high school he had the highest average for all four years of high school of his whole graduating class. He was perfectly fluent in both languages without a trace of accent in either.
Non-English speakers don’t need to be coddled. It only hurts them and society.
This is insane. These people are not thinking clearly. I’m glad I homeschool in the heartland!!
It is amazing, isn’t it?
And some on this board will still say that the government schools can be fixed.
Leave the schools, run for your lives, bankrupt the system so that it crumbles, falls and collapses, please!!!
I just found this thread with a definition of a Democrat: ‘one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses.’”
That fits this situation perfectly!!!
For Reference:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899635/posts
It’s not just in California anymore.
Mean they are all going for food stamps, free education and a demand for special treatment?
Sounds logical, they share a border and all...
I’ll give you a quote from a recent best seller on the illegal invsaion:
“In California and Texas, Americans of European descent are already a minority and their share of the population falls every year. Hispanics account for 34 percent of our two most populous states and their numbers are surging.”
“California is coming home to Mexico. California is becoming - indeed has become - a Third World state.”
First of all, I am thinking of legal immigrants in school.
Naturally they should become fluent in English. Nevertheless, allowing them to continue to learn, even if it is in Spanish, while they are learning English, is more efficient than allowing them to fall behind until they can learn in English. The results with your father point to the benefits of growing up bilingual.
Taco this.
I have not heard of this in Oregon Schools at all.
Hmmmmmm.
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Someone from Or please find one of these books and see if they preach the old bigoted Mexican line of hate America.
Thanks for the ping.
I was just reading this article.
My son just said that they should go back to Mexico if they are going to learn those things in their language anyway.
If it were not for States like Oregon, we would not have an illegal immigrant problem.
Thank you very little Tom Potter, et al...
But he didn’t learn in his native language till he caught up. Learning in your native language is the surest way to slow down picking up English. Sure it ain’t easy, but oh well, millions of immigrant kids have done it for centuries. They can do it now.
The other issue, is that they are not likely to fall behind much. Starting school at 5 is way too early. Studies have been done that demonstrate that starting a kid in fourth or fifth grade is just as effective, if not more, than starting them too young. The year or so it takes for a kid to become fluent enough in English to catch up in some subjects is well worth it for the gains they make in mastering English.
The slight gains in a few subjects (and math tends to not count in this) is way outweighed by the usefulness of mastering English more quickly.
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