Posted on 02/19/2005 7:56:25 AM PST by deepFR
"The situation in Lexington and elsewhere in Nebraska has caught the attention of the state Legislature, which is considering a bill to thwart what some say amounts to legal segregation in the schools."
So, now parents will not have school choice because it's more important to create "diversity" in the classroom?
"People in Lexington and Schuyler do not want their kids being polluted by Latin Americans and Hispanics," Huerta said. "They think they're not going to get the quality of education if they have a diverse classroom."
Oooo, a mind-reader.
What's stopping the hispanic kids from going to these county schools, too?
I have no problem with legal immigrants. Get legal, or get out.
No. I think it's a combination of funding and the idea that chldren are the property of the State.
Nothing. The article sounds like an attempt to equate illegals with Jim Crow.
It really isn't (or shouldn't) be about the ethnicity of the kids. It really is about the kids being low-income. Low-income generally equals a more transient lifestyle, which leads to gaps in education and behavior problems, which leads to needing more services like special ed. or behavior modification....who in their right mind would want their child to be in a class or school with all of that when they can go elsewhere?
Like many of Nebraska's school systems, the Lexington district where Eisenhauer is superintendent has seen an influx of Hispanics, largely because of jobs at the meatpacking plants, and an accompanying exodus of white students to public elementary schools just outside town.
Not to mention the so-called "reporter" ignores the issue that this influx are in the country illegally and that the plants employing them are openly violating our immigration laws without fear of repercussion. To them, the real story is whitey is racist.
The Nebraska legislature seems poised to declare native-born American children as chattel.
It should read Mexicans and Hispanics. Latins are Hispanics and Mexicans are Mexicans.
If by "diversity" you mean "large numbers of kids from single-parent families inadequately prepared for learning," I'm afraid I'd have to opt out as well. I suspect that's the real issue here. And I also suspect you'll find that most of the middle-class minority families are getting out as well.
It really isn't (or shouldn't) be about the ethnicity of the kids
It should if the kids and their parents are in this country "illegally". I believe that if politicians were required to send thier children to public schools we would see many of these issues addressed.
1. Government adopts insane policies (immigration).
2. Folks take simple rational actions to shield themselves from the insane policies.
3. Government adopts more insane, and now coercive policies designed to prevent people from acting in their own interests....rinse and repeat...
How dare those Americans try to do what the illegals criminal Mexican aliens and their racist supporters claim they are doing!! The darn gringos must learn that their primary role is to supply the wealth and resources to improve the situation of the invaders! Not to play the race card here, but folks in the black community have given up employment and any claim to jobs to ensure that illegal Mexicans get work. Why can't the folks in the white community live up to tjeir obligations, as well?
Just for the record, these were not illegal immigrants either. Almost all were natives and some could trace there families in California back to before most of the rest of us could find ours in North America.
Arizonans and Californians can be heard shouting,
"Welcome to the world of reality, Nevadans! You
now know what displacement means."
I feel that for the amount of property taxes that they rape us for ("It's for the schools, you know.") parents should be able to send their kids where they want to. We homeschool, so we get to pay for this nonsense no matter what (that's our choice). I just don't like the divisions it throws up in the communities. I generally don't have any problem with the Mexican people who live here, although if they are not here legally I do. I don't know what the percentages are as to legal vs. illegal, but if someone plays by the rules and is here legally, then great, welcome. Now start learning English. You don't have to give up speaking Spanish, but English is the language of our contry and you need to learn to speak it (just like I would need to learn to speak Spanish if I moved to Mexico).
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