Posted on 12/24/2013 8:00:24 AM PST by artichokegrower
As Latinos surpass white Californians in population next year, the state becomes a potential model for the rest of the country, which is going through a slower but similar demographic shift.
But when it comes to how California is educating students of color, many say the state serves as a model of what not to do.
In California, 52 percent of the state's 6 million school children are Latino, just 26 percent are white. And Latino students in general are getting worse educations than their white peers. Their class sizes are larger, course offerings are fewer and funding is lower.
The consequence is obvious: lower achievement.
(Excerpt) Read more at montereyherald.com ...
They were going to save social security, not it turns out they cannot fund anything more than a liquor store.
Bingo! The parents come from a culture that does not value education and they pass that to their children. No amount of money can fix that.
Notice how this article ignores the “white Hispanic” PC, and makes a strong distinction between “Hispanics” and “whites?” When discussing crime statistics or non black demographics, Hispanics become white for liberal convenience, but when Hispanics need to be a special demographic, separate from whites, a strong distinction appears.
I can point to five education edifices in the downtown Los Angeles vicinity that cost over $500 million to build, whose students are almost all the children of illegal aliens.
Don’t talk to me about the supposed underfunding of these kids.
We pay the taxes for these kids schools, then pay for private eduction for our own kids, so they’ll be safe and not spend their time being indoctrinated to the Left’s agenda by teachers who do the union’s bidding.
exactly
when I think of the money we have and are spending without holding the parents/ students accountable I get sick
and the VERY first thing leftists want is more money.
They just need to emulate the Kansas City Public School District fiasco, Ii mean model, because it worked so well.
These illegal alien kids are being taught in Spanish and so they are in different classes than the American kids learning in English..
How many will be shocked when a state full of Mexicans is exactly like ........ Mexico?
” Why do Asian students do well and Latino students do poorly?
One word.
Study.
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If (failure to) study is the problem, why don’t Hispanic parents make their kids study?
Similarly, there is an education gap between Bassett Hounds and Border Collies. Go figure.
“As Latinos surpass white Californians in population next year…”
Shouldn’t that be “Illegal Latinos surpass….”?
The correct term is “Illegal Latrinos” - not “illegal Latinos”.
Taxonomy is important.
Ethnicitysist!
As a *group* it does not help that Mexicans, in particular do not push and value education. They are not go getters for it, nor do they particularly push their kids to do well in school unlike other immigrant groups. [The CUBANS OTOH are a big exception. But the Mexicans on the whole, couldn’t care less.] If a kid manages to stumble through high school, to them that enough education.
For sure Mexican culture on the whole does NOT value education, and that is what the bulk of our illegals are.
Years ago, I worked at a swap meet, letting the sellers in early. There were a number of Cambodians/Vietnamese/Hmong etc. - some of them literally peasants who’d escaped their countries with NOTHING. The women would sell their embroidery (beautifully done! with excellent craftsmanship) and their small children in primary school would HAVE THeIr SCHOOLBOOKS with them on the weekend — while mama sold embroidery she also kept them hard at work over their books, which she did not often understand herself, but she made sure they did their homework. Asian parents see it as a way to better oneself. Too often with Mexicans if one tries to get ahead he or she is seen as “getting above themselves.” Naturally you will find many individual exceptions but as a GROUP that’s how it shakes out. Also let’s not forget that evil Bell Curve. As a group Mexicans average 87 in the IQ department, which is almost a full standard deviation below the average of 100. http://www.sq.4mg.com/NationIQ.htm
Totally agree. Apparently, they’ve discovered additional “races” since I was in elementary school in the late 70’s and now I am bi-racial. It’s all about an agenda and has proven an effective one. It has prevailed in bonding a large segment of different populations because of a commonality in language into a strategic democrat voting block.
“We have a Mexican market here that I order tamales from for a Christmas Eve gathering. I went to pick them up yesterday and you couldn’t get down the aisles of the store they were so busy. Told my friend.....guess with all those ebt cards they are eating well.”
Here in NJ we have a lot of illegals; they are a sought-after market, as they have both welfare AND cash (many do actually work - for cash). This country will never enforce immigration laws because NJ, NY, CA and other states need the illegals not as workers, but CONSUMERS. They are needed to keep public schools open, to keep housing occupied, etc.
There's an acronym that's growing in usage among educators; NAM or "non-Asian minorities. It allows them to discuss the failings of "people of color" compared to their white counterparts while ignoring the success of other "people of color". It's very convenient.
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