"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.
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.
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.
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?
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).
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!
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?
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.
Without citing motive for the migration, it seems the pols are the racists here, assuming that the migration is race motivated.
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
In this country we supposed to have freedom, does this not include choce
Isn't it wonderful to have people in government who believe that it is their responsibility to thwart the will of the people?
http://www.cis.org/articles/2003/msktestimony410.html
Securing the Homeland Through
Immigration Law Enforcement
Testimony prepared for the U.S. House of Representatives
Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims
"Department of Homeland Security Transition:
Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement"
April 10, 2003
Statement of Mark Krikorian
Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies
In response, the INS developed a "kinder, gentler" means of enforcing the law, which fared no better. Rather than conduct raids on specific employers, Operation Vanguard sought to identify illegal workers at all meatpacking plants in Nebraska through audits of their personnel records. The INS found about 4,000 workers, out of about 24,000, who appeared to be illegal, and scheduled interviews to determine their status. Three thousand of these workers turned out to be illegal aliens, and never showed up for their interviews, with the remaining 1,000 able to correct errors in their records.
Local law enforcement officials were very pleased with the program: "It’s an excellent program," said Grand Island Police Chief Kyle Hetrick. "It’s a positive thing. It’s effective." Despite the initial promise of this new enforcement strategy, employers and politicians actively criticized the very idea of enforcing the law: "It was ill-advised for Operation Vanguard to start out in a state with such low employment and an already big problem with a shortage of labor," said a former Nebraska governor who had been hired to lobby for an end to immigration law enforcement. As a result, plans to expand the program to other states and other industries were scrapped and the INS official who developed the program was forced into early retirement