Tucson Schools Overhaul a Program to Help Struggling Hispanic Students

New York Times ^ | September 15, 2012 | FERNANDA SANTOS

[txrefugee]

Years ago, when the Vietnamese refugees were coming into the Houston school district, teachers were aghast at how they would manage their education. They arrived not knowing a word of English. Many were orphaned by the war or pirates that attacked them at sea and killed their parents in front of them.

But the teachers needn’t have worried. These students joyfully tackled the language and moved on to excel in their studies. In spite of working many hours to help their families or to support themselves, many graduated at the top of their high school graduating classes.

The lazy and the coddled will never succeed because they’ve been given excuses to fail all their lives.

[SeminoleCounty]

Tucson schools can’t seem to get over pushing that Hispanic Ku Klux Klan La Raza Astlan/Reconquista nonsense.

They would serve their Hispanic students much better by teaching them the subjects that would make them successful in America....not by teaching them the Hispanic/Mestizo version of “Lebensraum”

[lulu16]

What an uplifting story. Thank-you!

[lulu16]

This year, I was kind of “writer/artist in residence” at a Tucson elementary school in one of the poorest areas. The kids were so open to learning, and so willing to try and do well. The principal was educated by nuns, hunted javelina with a bow and arrow as a teenager, and had a son that served and died for his country, she was not having all that socialistic nonsense in her school. I hope she has given them a firm foundation to resist the recruitment that will come in middle and high school. W hat the heck, I met a U of AZ teacher who used his kids for Atzlan activism and justified it because he felt they needed practical application.

[Pining_4_TX]

Get government out of education. Privatize! That is the only thing that will cure education’s woes.

[Eagles6]

"But it has seen limited success at great cost — $1 billion, based on its estimates. "

But...But...how are they supposed to know that it's Whitey's fault that they're stupid, lazy and violent if they cancel the "Hate Whitey" classes that Whitey is paying for?

[cradle of freedom]

We have to pressure Republicans to stop birthright citizenship.

[cradle of freedom]

Where do they get those spiffy uniforms?

[Travis McGee]

No idea...

[Delhi Rebels]

Somehow Chinese-American students manage without Chinese-American studies programs.

And without the expensive programs needed to make them successful students.