School District on Long Island Is Told It Must Teach Immigrants

New York Times ^ | October 17, 2014 | By BENJAMIN MUELLER

[mythenjoseph]

What an uplifting story. Well done Long Island....I hope other schools do the exact same thing.

[grania]

So anyone who lives in a community that doesn't support education like some of the more motivated communities do can just say they're homeless and enroll anywhere else, even if there's no space?

In OH (this state isn't all bad) there's an easily available public online homeschool option, with several choices. State law now allows participation of students using it to participate in extra curricular activities at their public school. I could envision a situation where all the real students take this option, perhaps forming clusters that a parent can supervise. And the public schools will become sewers that voters will be unwilling to support any more than the have to.

[huldah1776]

Do all states have to report? Texas should have been effected, right? If not, something else is amok.

[Prospero]

I don't have to look for the clause in the U.S. Constitution subordinating state to federal law. In North Carolina the "subordination clause" is right there in our state's Constitution, originally put there "at gun point" and left-over from Reconstruction. It is not in every state's Constitution, and for good reason.

If you were to ask an old-line "Norman Thomas" Socialist where Jefferson and Madison's definition of federalism turned upside down, they would have told you - in all seriousness - "that was settled in places like Vicksburg and Gettysburg," and Appomattox.

It's perhaps telling that, when they had the chance, the post-war "Radical Republicans" did not add such language to the national Constitution, nor did they address the question of secession, for that matter.

By the time Wilson and Roosevelt were through, and when World War II ended, the courts have held a free and heavy hand with anti-federalism, using segregation as their largely undisputed high-ground, until our time where three generations have emerged virtually without knowledge of classic federalism.

Now, that's either as dead as the Roman Republic or the issue amounts to a blank slate, awaiting an opportunity.

[LRoggy]

Yes, funny how the NY Times article managed to conveniently hide the racial makeup of that school district. Guess it wouldn’t be politically correct to point out Hispanic discrimination by African-American school administrators!

I grew up near there in Merrick in the 69’s and 70’s and even back then Hempstead was the poorest section on Long Island.

[stanne]

A cursory look on Google revealed a 2011 CNN money article:

Taxes in Nassau, on Long Island, where the median property tax was $8,206, and Westchester ($8,160), just north of New York City, were only slightly lower. (’Rent or Buy: 10 cities rated’)

If you think their beloved Obama reduced taxes...no

Real estate prices in commuting distance fri NY, and that is what this school district story is talking about, not upstate, not Rochester, are not $150 thousand. You don’t have to live in the hamptons to pay very high real estate prices

These guys don’t care about property taxes. Not enough to get the heck out of there nor to do anything about the onslaught of immigrants not even enough to ask kindly for the rewording of such lies into “ illegal immigrants, aliens nor invaders”

They are beaten

[montag813]

“I feel bored and alone,” Ms. Hernandez said (through a translator).

#ThingsTheNYTWontReport

[octex]

I detest the PC media using the term ‘immigrant’! The people are illegally in this country; thus, illegal aliens.

Anyone know what law requires US taxpayers to pay for educating people who are not legally in the US?

[EinNYC]

And just wait until they DEMAND bilingual teachers, Spanish textbooks, and show just what a gigantic sponge sucking up social services they are. Thanks, Odungo. You have gifted us with illiterate, criminal, disease-infested, social services sucking worthless vermin. Your vision of the New Americans after you knock US off with ebola and enterovirus D-68.

[DoughtyOne]

Poor kid sits idle for hours...

Interesting, nobody showed any interest when my kids were sitting idle for hours while the teachers taught English to the illegal immigrant students.

Cry me a river you foreign national ingrates!

[Chode]

and then sits in a library for a few hours

so the silly little cow just SITS in a million dollar library... doesn't pick up a book, just sits there, i think i see part of the problem right there

[WMarshal]

You know that if the peasants were not being taxed into poverty they wouldn’t be so concerned about having more children the the cost to raise them. Wealth transfers (AKA known as slavery and theft) necessarily drive down the birthdate of the taxed providers and increase the birthdate of the receivers. It is the cuckoo method of genocide. The progs convince them that the taxes are is for their benefit and safety and then give the money to others to have more kids. Parasitism ALWAYS diminishes the host.

[NonValueAdded]

Wow, online schooling MUST have foreign language capability. That 16 year old sitting in the library could attend a virtual classroom for the relatively low cost of the technology. Of course the unions might object.

[bgill]

Any kid, under 16, is required by law to attend school. A distrct can’t pick and choose.

[rfreedom4u]

I wonder how this ties in with the Benghazi hearings? Or maybe it’s the IRS or VA scandals it has something to do with.