[LibertyThug]

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?

[deepFR]

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.

[AnOldCowhand]

I disagree. It is really about culture. I grew up in southern California in a small, mostly Mexican (the meaningless word Hispanic hadn't been invented yet) town. Their culture despises accomplishment above the mean and therefore places no value on education...in fact they ridicule it. I remember being held back (and getting in trouble for reading ahead) by these other kids that were having to sound out monosyllable words like (and this is no exaggeration) "OF".

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.