California's Latino Education Crisis

Townhall.com ^ | July 16, 2015 | Larry Elder

[Hardens Hollow]

So the lie about illegals being here to pay into Social Security is exposed. First, low income earners don’t pay that much into Social Security. Second, low income earners receive much more out of SS than they pay in. Social Security is extremely socialized.

[Hardens Hollow]

When I tell people here that I escaped California, mist get it immediately. Those that don’t are sometimes young, but otherwise must be liberals. It helps me know who to avoid.

[Mouton]

I don't think my point was incorrect, I think you added upon my points by what you noted. Of course I agree with your historical commentary. Hell, I am a product of exactly what you point out.

Interestingly, a good number of the immigrants and their descendants even fought against their fatherlands...they had become Americans first. The only groups which maintained a foreign allegiance seems to be the mid european socialists whom were more taken with their ideology then allegiance to any nation.

[Hardens Hollow]

“CA Look at CA’s K thru 12 student stats and you’ll see a snapshot of CA’s future.”

to implement a high school exit exam because kids were graduating without being able to read or do simple math.

The exams only at a middle school level, but if course it is being called racist because the Mexicans can’t pass it.

[Moltke]

Education is not something that is done to you, like penicillin for strep. It's something that students do themselves (with guidance, of course), to the natural limits of their interest and aptitude. One look at Mexico, or Guatemala, or El Salvador, and you would predict that their citizens would lag substantially behind Euro-Americans, whatever the "system" does or does not do.

Exactly! Some just don't have it in them. Liberals ignore the basic facts, and it all goes downhill from there. Like trying to fasten a screw with a hammer...

[ReagansShinyHair]

This is what happens when you NURTURE an ignorant class.

I have to agree. None of my grandparents ever went to high school. Both of my parents were homeless at one point in their youth. Both of my husband's parents were also homeless at one point in their youth. I'm pretty sure one of my grandfather's believed the moon was about five miles away from the earth.

Today I have a doctorate and I am successfully self employed. My husband has a B.S. and a good job. We have worked very hard, been dealt some bad luck, but we kept plowing through it. We never got any government assistance for anything, ever, and neither did our families. Our parents were all people who lived moral, mostly frugal lives, and were successfully middle class despite their roots.

Today I work with many people in the underclass. Some are hardworking and will be ok. Many live immoral lives and cause their own problems. Always with their hands out to the government. No reason to better themselves, no reason to bother learning anything.

[redpoll]

>>>Also, why hasn’t California collapsed yet? I keep hearing all this talk about the state’s economic troubles. Where is the collapse?<<<

Previous generations did an amazing job building up capital and infrastructure. There’s a lot of seed corn that is being used up right now and not being replaced. Imagine that infrastructure like a dam on a river - the deterioration can continue for many years, sometimes seen, sometimes out of sight, and all it takes is a sudden strain to cause a catastrophic collapse.

I read somewhere that California constructed a water system for 20 million people, and now there’s twice that number using the same system.

Societies grow and die just like people. Sometimes it’s a lingering illness.