let’s just add more kids speaking different languages and dialects and take more money away from the taxpayer’s children."
"Let’s start by reducing those teacher’s salaries to make up the shortfall."
!!!! WE HAVE A WINNER !!!!
Posted on 04/27/2016 7:45:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Two words dominated the conversation at ED's Tea with Teachers last week on the topic of supporting undocumented students: fear and hope. Educators balanced their concerns for their undocumented and mixed-status students, while acknowledging the hope that they ultimately deserve. During the tea, I couldn't help but think of the student from my school district, who was sitting in a jail cell rather than a classroom, feeling those same emotions.
Wildin David Guillen Acosta was taken from his front yard on his way to his Durham, N.C., school in January, while his mother watched helplessly from their home. He would later join nine other students from North Carolina and Georgia whose parents and classmates also witnessed their arrests from bus stops, homes, and neighborhoods. While The Department of Homeland Security has designated schools with sanctuary status, teachers across the Southeast are arguing that ICE raids are threatening our students' daily lives as their justifiable anxieties are occupying what could otherwise be devoted to their academic pursuits.
Teachers nodded in unison as we heard testimonials of students and family members who were taken from us by ICE or who suffer from PTSD from the threats that ICE raids pose. We questioned how we can engage our biggest allies, our students' families, when schools serve as an intimidating environment. As Cesar Moreno Perez of the American Federation of Teachers stated at the tea, ICE raids are, "eroding the hope that educators worked so hard to build" in immigrant communities across our nation.
The threat of deportations is just the beginning of an undocumented student's concerns. Teachers shared frustration with the barriers that are created as a result of misinformation, particularly post-secondary financial barriers. Secretary King acknowledged that some states are more committed to supporting our undocumented students' collegiate goals, and this is certainly the case for me, as I noted that my former students in Colorado attend college with in-state tuition, while my current students in North Carolina have found limited options when searching for scholarships and financial aid.
Most notably, it is not just students who are vulnerable to the instability of our complex immigration system. A teacher with DACA status spoke of the important role that DACA qualifying teachers can play in inspiring students, yet this important role remains unstable as we wait for the results of the most recent Supreme Court case and next election. Since DACA is an executive order, the next President could remove it, making this teacher and others like her ineligible to do exactly what they feel called to do - show their own undocumented students that their dream career is within reach.
I left this tea once again with Wildin on my mind and an inbox full of resources from other teachers. It's always inspiring to meet teacher leaders from across the country, and in this case, I feel more supported knowing they're committed to empowering our students in the face of the barriers imposed on them.
To be honest, the really disruptive students usually are native-born Americans who have a type of English as their mother tongue. Latin American immigrants tend to have a lot more respect for education. In their home countries (where they should be getting their educations!) schools require uniforms and a measure of self control to attend. Children are indulged, but they are expected to behave.
This article is from the official US Dept of Education website.
I hope Mr. Trump is prepared to clean house in all federal departments and agencies. Obama has anti-American Marxists at all levels of the federal government. Trump cannot “make America great again” with half of his employees trying to destroy America.
My 5 yo grandson has brought home notes three times for fighting. It’s always muslims. If these miscreant muzzies were not here, we wouldn’t be receiving these nastygrams.
Easy fix, send them home.
How many parents and other taxpayers appreciate all the money wasted for "bilingual" (i.e. Spanish-only) education and other social services for illegals, money that could otherwise be spent on services for children who actually have some business being in the schools?
"Let’s start by reducing those teacher’s salaries to make up the shortfall."
!!!! WE HAVE A WINNER !!!!
“Latin American immigrants tend to have a lot more respect for education.”
I know some teachers who would disagree with that.
Of course they live in fear of the authorities.
It’s what all lawbreakers do.
See the poster for BLM and link to radical group in this idiot’s “classroom”?
No wonder public education stinks, particularly in inner cities.
Look in the mirror at the problem, Alice. You ought to be fired.
When I was 7, I was one of three students in the Gifted and Talented program which was geared to children with high IQs. We were put in a corner with our books while the teachers spent much of the class time huddled with the special needs children who didn’t know much more than numbers and the alphabet. My schoolwork suffered and my study habits were affected I predict that American students will be neglected as the teacher’s attention will be going to those ‘special needs’ illegal kids.
Your tax money at work.
That must explain why border towns like Laredo and Brownsville have some of the lowest literacy rates in the country.
Allowing illegals to enter the country with children, or they have children after they are here, is a huge moral dilemma.
The illegal adults and their children shouldn’t be here. Removing them from our country or separating the children from their parents is on a human level heartless.
The main thing I know to do is keep them from coming into the country in the first place. The most humane way of doing that is with a wall. How else do we stop them at the border? Capture them, then hold them, then send them back for them to try again? Shoot them? Let a lot of them leak into the country thus adding to our moral dilemma?
“Does ANYONE really believe that teachers across the United States want more disruptive students who cannot speak English in their classrooms?”
Not the ones I’ve come into contact with.
Won’t dispute that. But likely most of their students are Mexican Americans as opposed newcomers and in my experience too many “Chicanos” have adopted a lifestyle of failure. The illegals very quickly adopt the “culture” of the school they find themselves, especially if Spanish is the primary language.
Good grief.
I wasn’t picturing 17-year-old Guatemalan gang bangers when I posted my reply. I was thinking of the average Mexican or Central American kid. They are usually poor, but they tend to be hard working and in my limited experience teaching them, they try hard to succeed in school. Now, my school was not flooded with them and they were too few to establish their own culture—they had to adapt to our ways of doing things.
“[Mexican or Central American students] try hard to succeed in school.”
Nope. They don’t. Check score results in Texas.
I support their position 100%.
We should remove all barriers for those undocumented Americans. Undocumented South Americans should be deported to their homes in South America without any of the delays that barriers to deportation impose. Undocumented Central Americans should be deported to their homes in Central America. Barriers to deporting criminals who are here illegally are unacceptable.
The point is, the illegals and their children will be assimilating into the Chicano culture of the barrios rather than the anglo culture. If you had one or two foreign kids per school district in towns where the rest of the population was English-speaking this wouldn’t be the case, but at this point all we’re doing by welcoming more immigrants from Mexico and Central America is adding to the existing ghetto culture.
This woman does not speak for all teachers. Especially this one. Ship the illegals the heck outta here! What school system needs to burden itself with students who often have never been in a classroom before high school, who behave like hyenas (completely unsocialized to polite American manners), who are illiterate in their OWN language as well as English, and who suck up resources faster than a whale calf can siphon off its mother’s milk?
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