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How important is cultural diversity at your school?
www.greatschools.net ^ | Great Schools Staff

Posted on 10/08/2009 7:35:53 AM PDT by justlittleoleme

The Census Bureau projects that by the year 2100, the U.S. minority population will become the majority with non-Hispanic whites making up only 40% of the U.S. population.

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After moving and while researching schools for my kids I came across this article. I am having a huge difficulty in finding a school to enroll my kids in that is not full and overcrowded. IT appears and is my assumption that this is because of all of the illegal aliens that have enrolled their kids in the schools here. IF people aren't citizens here they should not be allowed to fill up our schools. IF they want to benefit from our countries education system then they need to become citizens or go back home.
1 posted on 10/08/2009 7:35:53 AM PDT by justlittleoleme
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To: justlittleoleme

Kudos to Ted Kennedy.


2 posted on 10/08/2009 7:37:19 AM PDT by wac3rd (Felipe Calderon supports the public option.)
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To: justlittleoleme

Does the school district make public the performance scores of each school? Also, look up a Supreme Court case entitled “Plyler v. Doe.”


3 posted on 10/08/2009 7:39:25 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: justlittleoleme

I don’t like Mexicans, or ANY Christians for that matter clogging up my school.


4 posted on 10/08/2009 7:39:26 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: justlittleoleme

Academic achievement trumps ALL and everything, including “Diversity”


5 posted on 10/08/2009 7:39:38 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else" Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: justlittleoleme

I could give a smelly Obama about cultural diversity at schools.

I do care about a real education in schools.

Which pretty much eliminates “diversity” bull-Obama.


6 posted on 10/08/2009 7:40:04 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: justlittleoleme

The big majority of kids at the schools in this “lily-white” suburb are hispanic. I always laugh when the media uses that “lily white” term to describe a city with a bit higher percentage of minorities than the national average.


7 posted on 10/08/2009 7:40:38 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: babble-on

what?


8 posted on 10/08/2009 7:41:13 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: justlittleoleme
I don't care what ethnicity, what religion, what color of skin anyone has. We are doomed as a society unless we start to celebrate our commonality. Respect diversity but find commonality or we will fall apart as a culture.
9 posted on 10/08/2009 7:41:23 AM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: justlittleoleme
the ‘diversity’ (busing kids to different schools) vs ‘community’ is missing the point......

whether one has ‘diversity’ or ‘community’ both are tyranny, the government is deciding where the child goes to school what they teach, what philosophy to life to conform to etc, both ‘diversity’ or ‘community’ public schools are tyranny.

10 posted on 10/08/2009 7:41:56 AM PDT by FreedomProtector
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To: SMARTY

Academic achievement?? We’re talking about PUBLIC schools here, where you get a “citizenship” award for showing up.


11 posted on 10/08/2009 7:42:24 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: justlittleoleme
Problem once diversity enters the picture the academic level falls through the floor.
12 posted on 10/08/2009 7:43:28 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: justlittleoleme

This is news? In large areas of the SouthWest hoh-hispanics (of all stripes) have been a minority for years.

Maybe you can sign your kids up for a foreign langugae class at the school - English....


13 posted on 10/08/2009 7:43:32 AM PDT by ASOC (Cave quid dicis, quando, et cui)
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To: justlittleoleme

Anything that detracts from the true reason of education, especially as important as grades 1-12 should be shunned. Parents need to wake up and take back the control of their schools which can be accomplished by getting rid of so-called administrators.


14 posted on 10/08/2009 7:44:21 AM PDT by IbJensen (If Catholic voters were true to their faith there would be no abortion and no President Obama.)
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To: GeronL

It’s not that I hate Christians, just wouldn’t want them to marry my daughter, you know what I mean?


15 posted on 10/08/2009 7:45:24 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: justlittleoleme

I suggest a private school where 18K will get you a 50’s style education for your kids.


16 posted on 10/08/2009 7:45:25 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: wac3rd

The minorities will STILL all be minorities, even as the number of “non-Hispanic” whites decrease to less than 50% of the population.

Do not sell the people of Northern European origin short. These people are the descendents of the most rapacious, bloodthirsty, cutthroat bunch of pirates and pillagers on the planet, and they have gone to every corner of the world, subjugating lesser human beings to their will, placing them in slavery, robbing them blind, and executing in huge numbers those who would not bow to their superiority and manifest destiny. Just because these people have “played nice” for a few generations, does not mean that the ruthless, cruel, and self-righteous nature will not once again resurface.


17 posted on 10/08/2009 7:46:33 AM PDT by alloysteel (....the Kennedys can be regarded as dysfunctional. Even in death.)
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To: GeronL

Cultural diversity in schools does not matter at all.

The only thing that matters is academic achievement and excellence.

Students who do not perform up to par should be left back and not promoted until they do learn.

The curriculum of all elementary schools should teach the fundamental basics to kids. Kindergarten is for creativity and fun such as drawing and coloring etc. In first grade, the real teaching should begin. The three r’s. Penmanship. History. Geography, Civics. Spelling. The simple stuff. Then with more advanced grades, simple algebra and the sciences etc.


18 posted on 10/08/2009 7:48:00 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: GeronL

Cultural diversity in schools does not matter at all.

The only thing that matters is academic achievement and excellence.

Students who do not perform up to par should be left back and not promoted until they do learn.

The curriculum of all elementary schools should teach the fundamental basics to kids. Kindergarten is for creativity and fun such as drawing and coloring etc. In first grade, the real teaching should begin. The three r’s. Penmanship. History. Geography, Civics. Spelling. The simple stuff. Then with more advanced grades, simple algebra and the sciences etc.


19 posted on 10/08/2009 7:48:15 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: babble-on
I don’t like Mexicans, or ANY Christians for that matter clogging up my school.

Either you have a sick sense of sarcasm or you are a troll. (Joined 9/20/2009.) I highly suspect the second.

20 posted on 10/08/2009 7:48:23 AM PDT by scan59 (Markets regulate better than government can.)
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