Nebraska Fears Segregation in Schools

AP ^ | Feb 18, 2005 | SCOTT BAUER

[G.Mason]

"It bothers you when people come into your town and make comments like `You've got lots of Mexican kids,' Eisenhauer said. "I feel distressed if they would opt out for that reason."

Poor superintendent Eisenhauer.

Perhaps he would be less "distressed" should he quit and go to work in the meat packing plant.

The comments by the Mexicans are interesting. They can't sent their kids to the other schools because they can't get there?

Sure, I can see that. The Mexicans running away from all those Mexicans in the city schools.

Home school alert!

[cake_crumb]

"And I also suspect you'll find that most of the middle-class minority families are getting out as well."

Shhhh, you're not supposed to guess the obvious.

[G.Mason]

Er ... uh ... Nebraskans?

[cake_crumb]

I don't see why they need to be taught in Spanish. They're already fluent in Spanish, it's English they're deficient in. I hate being forced to pay for this insanity as well.

[Grendel9]

Sorry.,.mental flip!

[G.Mason]

Tell that to these folks

Latin America ... Definition

The countries of the Western Hemisphere south of the United States, especially those speaking Spanish, Portuguese, or French.

Now ... you were saying?

[G.Mason]

"Sorry.,.mental flip!"

Easily recognizable, as I do it constantly. ;)

[Richard Kimball]

I generally try to get along with everyone, but why is the superintendent so upset? It's like when the cities were all crying about white flight in the 60's and 70's. If all cultures are equal, wouldn't they produce just as good a school system without all us white crackers? Why do they NEED us in the city schools? Could it possibly be so they can suck the money out of us like seed ticks while calling us racists?

[followerofchrist]

Why do they always think that when whites flee an area, it is because of racism? Perhaps they want their kids in a safe school. Perhaps the white kids are harassed by Mexican racists who call them gringo.

[LibertyThug]

Well, I'm a teacher who taught in an inner city for 5 years and am now teaching in a school where more and more poor kids are moving in (poor hispanic, black, white). There is a different culture with the poor no matter what the ethnicity.

[kiriath_jearim]

Cheech & Chong did a musical bit about Mexican-Americans taking Spanish in school: "Mexican-Americans...take Spanish in school and get a 'C'..."

[Arliss45]

Just where from the article posted do you get the impression that they are illegal aliens?
It is not stated anywhere in the article.
Don't just assume every Mexican in this country is here illegally.

[DumpsterDiver]

Just where from the article posted do you get the impression that they are illegal aliens?

I got that impression from this:

"... has seen an influx of Hispanics, largely because of jobs at the meatpacking plants..."

When PC-speak requires people to speak euphemistically (ie, never use the phrase "illegal alien") then it becomes necessary to second guess what the speaker is actually talking about.

[deepFR]

Article alone not basis for impression - also knowledge of this area and meat packing industry, and I (like most of fellow posters here) have no problem with individuals who come to this country seeking opportunity through legal means so play the race card elsewhere.

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=528&u_xid=917&u_sid=783530

Growing pains test Lexington

BY CINDY GONZALEZ AND MIKE REILLY



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LEXINGTON, Neb. - When he opened his grocery in 1989, Mogens Knudsen couldn't tell you whether Maseca was a person, place or thing.

Today he carts in the corn tortilla mix by the pallet. Customers find it next to cans upon cans of Jumex, a Mexican fruit nectar that is the hip drink among young Latinos and non-Latinos alike.

"My kids kind of feel left out if they don't take Jumex to lunch," said Knudsen, who has expanded his Sav-A-Lot Discount Foods store by one-third.

Knudsen's grocery illustrates how Lexington and surrounding Dawson County are growing and adapting to the migration of Latin Americans since the 1990 opening of an IBP packing plant at the edge of town.

Dawson's ups and downs

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Telltales of growth are apparent - new businesses, new homes, new investment in schools, parks and roads.

But growth brings with it growing pains, and a World-Herald analysis of this south-central Nebraska community found evidence of both prosperity and problems.

Lexington is a case study of how small-town America is affected by our modern immigration phenomenon: millions of poorly educated Latin Americans toiling, often illegally, in difficult, low-paying jobs.

[Nephi]

Without citing motive for the migration, it seems the pols are the racists here, assuming that the migration is race motivated.

[deepFR]

Not to mention trend by reporters to refer to them as "undocumented immigrants" or ignore the fact that they are here illegally at all. Just love the crowd that attempts to equate desire for sane immigration policies with racism.

[newfrpr04]

it's amazing that they make it a white problem not the invasion of probably illegal Hispanics. Teachers are now spending more time teaching a second language (English).Why aren't the white kids being taught the foreign language. I'd move my kid too .

[ClaireSolt]

Reminds me of the time I called on a family in a new home in the country. They moved out of town, they said, because Vietnameese immigrants were barbecuing dogs in their living rooms. C'est la vie.

[DumpsterDiver]

Vietnameese immigrants were barbecuing dogs in their living rooms. C'est la vie.

I used to threaten my dogs by telling them that somewhere there was a restaurant menu with their names on it.

Roasted Yorkie-on-a-stick, anyone? :-)

[deepFR]

Immigration Impact - Nebraska

http://www.fairus.org/Research/Research.cfm?ID=1538&c=9

Extended Immigration Data for Nebraska

http://www.fairus.org/Research/Research.cfm?ID=1455&c=9