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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.

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?

I think "Dickie" has the confused the cause and effect here. Taking white students out is not allowing hispanic students in. The influx of hispanic students is causing overcrowded classrooms with poorer results. The white students are leaving a poor educational environment CAUSED by an influx of hispanic students.

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.

This article has been posted before. Of course these parents don't want to send their kids to these schools, why should they? Do you think they can get a good education in a school system where almost a third of the students can't speak English and where the inevitable gangs will soon raise their heads? They're fleeing the Hispanics, not overcrowding, and rightfully so, if they want their children to have a chance in life. Eisenhauer doesn't care whether these children's lives are ruined, their aspirations, feelings, safety, and future don't have to be considered, they can be experimented on at will like the lab rats he considers them to be. (I wonder where Dickie boy's children went to school.) These parents ought to be compensated for sending their children to these schools as part of the, dare I say it, reparations owed to them by the system for the things done to their community.

BTW, don't you think a place that has so many children who can't speak English might be a good place to hunt for illegal immigrants? You know, enforcing the democratically passed laws already on the books in this so-called democracy?

This story is nothing but a political stunt to take the heat off of the senator that has been trying to close the Class I (K-8) schools in Nebraska for years. When he was pressed to qualify the false statements he made about tax savings from closing the schools, he flew into a rage and started screaming about discrimination. Of course, the media jumped all over that, never-mind the fact that he'd been lying about everything else he said on the floor of the legislature. Almost everything that is written in that AP story is false, including the statements made by Eisenhauer. He's just another pawn for the State School Administrators Association and the Teachers Union, both of which have been backing this idea for a long time. Their hope is to shut down the rural schools so they can suck more property tax dollars into wasteful, poor performing schools. That way they can justify hiring more "administrative" staff to figure out how to waste more money. For the facts relating to this story see:

http://www.northplattebulletin.com/NorthPlatteBulletin/stories/?deptID=3&pageID=3&storyID=5837

Creteham