Posted on 05/15/2010 2:55:54 PM PDT by pissant
I originally had gators but wasn’t sure they’d coexist with the fish. Crocs, maybe?
thanks for the info, funny how the media never pointed this out when they said communities
In schools, a peek at Texas' future
Nearly half of students Hispanic as population increases, TEA says
By GARY SCHARRER AUSTIN BUREAU
May 16, 2010, 9:17AMAUSTIN — If you want to see how profoundly the state's population is changing, look at the faces of the children in Texas public school classrooms.
In all but rural areas, Hispanic enrollment is rapidly surpassing that of whites. Hispanic schoolchildren make up nearly 49 percent of Texas' 4.8 million pre-K through 12th-grade students, according to the Texas Education Agency. About one-third of students are white.
Demographers have long projected dramatic population changes for Texas, and the state's leaders have acknowledged the economic, social and political impact they will have — but hardly ever in the present tense. Now, they must confront the realization that the state is not adequately funding the education of a growing population that is generally poorer and less proficient in English.
“We were warned about this,” said Senate Education Chairwoman Florence Shapiro, R-Plano. “You look at the future, but you don't think it's going to be now.”
Across Texas, 349 districts are majority Hispanic, 18 more than last year and 104 more than in 2000. Texas has 670 white majority school districts, down 97 from a decade ago.
The shift appears to be driven by birth rates and immigration, not simply “white flight” to private schools. The gap grows every year and is wider in the early elementary school grades, where Hispanic children now make up a majority.
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Nice. Then we better move FAST and stop this nonsense.
Thank you for your information. It validates my own experiences in California 40 years ago.
My family left southern California (San Clemente) back in 1969. I attended parochial school as a small child and never felt any estrangement from classmates whose parents worked in the fields and spoke mostly spanish. It wasn’t until high school that an estrangement, a growing hostility became apparent. Much of it I believe is driven by language and the old Mexican antagonism towards the United States, and with that the hatred towards affluent middle-class American groups. (I’m not going to say ‘white’ or ‘anglo’ because that hostility was and still is directed, too, at asians and blacks).
The hostility towards the United States has been there for centuries, mostly, I believe, driven by envy of our national success. Mexico’s history is so very different from our’s and it is highly instructive in how nations, even sharing a border, can have radically different outcomes due to initial historical situations.
Today ardent and aggressive Marxists in the Mexican government and other Central American and Carribean states are using illegal aliens to infiltrate the U.S. and bring us down from inside. I have no doubt of that.
Yeah, OK - I agree with you on all counts except for the alligators.
It would be unfair to use gators - too dry a climate along the Rio Grande - it is better to use a species like Nile croccodiles.
This species of croc is accustomed to dry climes and is more aggressive, plus a notorious man-eater!
You put it much better than I have, there’s a lot to what you say. The aggravating thing is that those who were born here or immigrated LEGALLY have all the same opportunities to do as well as anyone else. Going back to a Mexican form of government sure isn’t going to improve that any!
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