[reaganaut1]

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

[elkfersupper]

Boo-Hoo.

[La Lydia]

Also, 60 percent of the school population there is Hispanic. I would bet that more than half of those were brought into the country or produced by parents who entered illegally. Someone should be saying that they would have plenty of money to educate the children if they weren’t having to educate someone else’s.

[lulu16]

Maybe the students will disrupt a supervisors’ meeting by chaining themselves to the desk and setting off a smoke bomb like they did a few months ago.

[sanjuanbob]

Why are Hispanic students struggling? Seriously.

[yoe]

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

Hispanic organizations La Raza, & MEChA, they keep telling Mexicans they are entitled, this is Mexico not America plus some of their parents who have been here for a number of years, keep to other Spanish speaking people so they can't speak English - the children suffer the most. Our Asian immigrants learn quickly to speak their new country's language and assimilate. The teacher's union encourages this also keeping the non-English speaking youngsters from quickly moving-on-up.

[norton]

"As the director of a new program intended to help the district’s perennially struggling Hispanic students, by far the majority of the enrollment, Ms. Figueroa...has jobs to fill and money to hire. She also has a big task...after (a) 2010 law banning lessons that fostered racial resentment and solidarity among members of a single ethnic group killed Her program (and the type of activism it had promoted.)
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Instead of classes about historical realities and the everyday experiences of Mexican-Americans, once a hallmark of the department, Ms. Figueroa’s program will offer tutoring to Hispanic students who are teetering on the edge of failure.
In place of discussions about race and identity, it will recruit mentors from among Hispanic business leaders and college graduates to talk to students. "

So...
Instead of preaching victim-hood, instead of preaching "racial" superiority, and instead of hiring upcoming community organizers, they will be mentoring students in such trivia as "success" and "socialization";
No wonder Senora Figueroa is ticked off.

[RightGeek]

The parents could help by going back to Mexico and taking their kids with them

[rusty schucklefurd]

re: The district needs to find at least $17 million in savings, about 7 percent of the money in its general fund, he said, to balance its budget for 2013-14 school year.

Discussions of political philosophy aside, the big issue is diminishing budgets. Why are the budgets diminishing? They are diminishing because of the sucky Obama economy which kills jobs and penalizes success. What is the solution? Obama’s solution and the solution of most Democrats is to raise taxes on the “wealthy” and practically speaking, the middle class as well as pump more money into government and unions. None of this works, of course. The real solution is to build the economy by reducing taxes and encouraging business growth in the private sector. So, while this school district and districts across the country as well as government entities everywhere are bewailing their reduced budgets, they really ought to be demanding steps to be taken that will in actuality build their community and state tax bases through increased growth in the private sector.

[Travis McGee]

"Instead of classes about historical realities and the everyday experiences of Mexican-Americans, once a hallmark of the department..."

Yeah, no bias at all there, NYT. Thanks, or should I say gracias?

[SpaceBar]

If they’re having such a rough time here, they’d probably learn better in the Mexico City public school system.

[Tax-chick]

I suggest using “Alpha-Phonics” to teach them to read English successfully. If they would then like to use their English skills to read about the history of Mexico, I don’t see why they shouldn’t, as long as they were able to write correct essays, in English, based on their research.

I wrote research papers, in English, for Spanish class in high school, and then I wrote research papers, in Spanish, for Spanish class in college. Ah, those were the days, when I could correctly conjugate Spanish verbs.

[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”

[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?

[Delhi Rebels]

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

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