Posted on 02/21/2005 12:33:34 AM PST by JohnHuang2
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Dick Eisenhauer is tired of watching white families take their children out of the schools in his Nebraska district and enroll them in smaller, outlying ones, where there are virtually no poor or Hispanic students. Like many of Nebraska's school systems, the Lexington district where Mr. 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. Click to learn more... And there is nothing Mr. Eisenhauer can do about it. Nebraska law allows students to switch schools without giving a reason.
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probably has more to do with the PC teachers teaching crap
Or maybe their parents used to have jobs at the meatpacking plants and now they don't and so they moved.
I wonder why they picked Nebraska?? Besides Utah its the most Republican state.... is that why?
Overcrowding was cited in another article.
So the hispanic parents are free to send their kids to the schools outside of town and choose not to?
If they were really superior schools, then why wouldn't they send their kids there? And if they aren't superior schools, what's the problem?
Chris Dvorak, a white parent whose two children attend a school outside Schuyler, said she sent her children there to avoid overcrowding in town, not to get away from Hispanics.
"I would have done the same thing if they were all white kids," she said.
** As usual the liberals are not addressing the real problem. Parents not wanting their kids to attend overcrowded schools are made out to be bigots. Now why is that?
Here in California the students of citizens suffer and can't achieve because all the classes are held back by twelve year olds going to ANY schools for the first time.
The illegals parents never had their kids in school often in Mexico, don't give a flying fart about their child's achievement, homework or anything and are destroying our education system
If there has to be an education for illegals by law, let it be a $5 a day education where their Mexican teacher can come in from Mexico to give it.
Outside of that, I welcome those here legally and want the rest to exit.
Why is that, indeed...
You notice that the achievement level of the various schools/student bodies is never mentioned.
Now, I wonder why that is the case?
Could it be that the parents are just sending their kids to the best schools available and rather than working harder to improve the other schools, the administration just wants to close down the better schools?
Even if this was the case, the Hispanic parents are choosing not to send their kids to the "white" schools. So they would be just as "bigoted".
Wait till some hispanic parents get a clue and move for the same reasons the white people are moving. No one wants their children attending an overcrowded school.
Maybe they say this because it is politically incorrect to state the obvious such as "I want my kid educated in English, not Spanish. I want them educated up to their ability not dragged down by the lowest common denominator." My sister lives in Texas and tells me legal immigrants feel exactly the same way, although they may speak Spanish at home.
There is a lot of money for the adminstration in bilingual education. I wish I could expound on it but I'm up way past my bedtime and not that coherent :o) People who are here legally, esp. the naturalized citizens, pay a lot of money to be here. They want the best. While they may be working three jobs eighteen hours a day, they went their children to be doctors and lawyers and not dishwashers and maids. An educated Mexican child can't be shoved into a special ed class.
My co-worker in San Diego lived in the ritzy Scripps Ranch neighborhood of northern San Diego. She paid exorbitant property taxes to support the local schools. Her daughter was forced to sit in a chair OUTSIDE the classroom because her classroom was loaded with illegals. She removed her daughter from that ridiculous situation and shouldered the cost of private school in addition to paying exorbitant taxes to educate the illegals.
The social engineering/meddling leftists are convinced that "integration" is the answer to improving achievement levels. Integration has been forced upon San Diego since the advent of the "Carlin" case. The performance disparities between ethnic groups persist in spite of all the meddling. Busing to "balance" ethnic and racial demographics made no improvement academically. In many cases the scores dropped. Classrooms tend to slow progress to the least capable student in the room.
The prop 227 measure that essentially forced English immersion for children in California schools was enormously successful in improving reading skills in English. The "bilingual" programs in place prior to that time were just a cover to allow Spanish speaking teachers to teach hispanic children in Spanish only.
Nebraska would do well to examine the failures experienced by other states that have attempted the kind of intervention they seem intent on pursuing.
*shrug* Even if they are bigots, so what? Bigots have the right to send their kids to the best school they can afford, too.
I had the hiring practice at some meatpacking plants explained to me the other week whilst there to test some eaquipment.
The meatpacking company is paid a bounty by the feds to "hire and train" immigrants. Currently, Somali and Indians are the "hot" commodity, at least in Nebraska Cattle Country. Illegals are finding themselves out on their butts, as the meatpackers can't get paid for "undocumented" or "false-documented" workers. Turnover is roughly 100% per annun.
This is very important. There are Hispanic parents who have sued to get their kids out of "bilingual" classes (where they learn bad Spanish and no English at all) because they know this will hold them back, but the administrations are adamant in keeping kids in these classes. In New York, there was one family that sued because they were 2nd generation Hispanics who spoke only English at home - but their child was assigned to a bilingual class because he had an Hispanic last name.
Once upon a time, we had the ideal of assimilation of immigrants. Settlement houses in NY were an attempt to help European immigrants, particularly Eastern European Jews, adapt to America, and many groups, such as the Catholic Church, ran schools and programs of various sorts to help their immigrant members get an education and become Americans. Now the ideal is keeping everybody in their own separate ghetto, where the Dems can ride herd on them and let them out only to vote every so often.
I think the attitude toward immigrants among many people would be considerably different if it was perceived that immigrants actually just wanted to be Americans, like the rest of us. But the left has every reason not to want this to happen.
"There are Hispanic parents who have sued to get their kids out of "bilingual" classes ...because they know this will hold them back, but the administrations are adamant in keeping kids in these classes."
Same is true in TX. A poll of Hispanics overwhelmingly indicated they wanted their children to learn English.
LULAC, the Hispanic advocacy group, and other leftie political groups are for bilingual education and anyone opposing this is a bigot/racist yadda yadda.
While there may be some monetary motivation for admins to have a billingual program, more often they do so because they don't want the attacks from Lulac and other do gooder liberals and to avoid being labeled racist.
Maybe AG Gonzales can help change this mess?
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