Creating the Ultimate Magnet School. Plyler v. Doe: The Root of All Evil.

nbeaujon.com ^ | 02/2005 | N Beaujon

[WJHII]

Creating the Ultimate Magnet School. Plyler v. Doe: The Root of All Evil. By N. Beaujon If there was ever a single event that has contributed to the explosion of illegal immigration in our country it was the 1982 Supreme court decision that made it mandatory for every state in the union to educate every single child of criminally illegal immigrants no matter the cost, conditions of their entry, justification or the resources necessary to accomplish this indignation by judicial fiat. In September 1977 a class action suit was filed on behalf of school-aged children of illegal Mexican immigrants who were residing in Smith County, Texas. See Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202, 206 (1982) The action complained of the “exclusion” of the plaintiff children from the public schools of the Tyler Independent School District. 457 U.S. at 206. Here's the upshot: The reason that these children were "excluded" is because they were in this country illegally. It was a no-brainer. The supposedly sovereign State of Texas was no longer going to foot the bill for these ultimate “magnet" school; free public education for illegal aliens. So the Texas legislature, on behalf of the People of the state of Texas, passed a law saying just that. And the Supreme court reversed.(The remainder of this article can be read at http://www.nbeaujon.com/plyler.htm )

[ConservativeMind]

I did not realize this was the reason behind the education of illegal alien's children.

It doesn't sound "constitutional" to me.

[Sergio]

It's all about the money. Just follow the money. Please follow my convoluted logic here for a moment.

Say you have 60 students and two teachers, that's 30 students a teacher.

Now let's say you have maximum class size requirements of no more than 20 students in a class. Now you need three teachers where before you only needed two.

Now lets double the number of students due to illegal immigration. Now you have six teachers, where you only originally needed two.

Let's top this with additional subject matter like "self-esteem", "conflict resolution", "multiculturalism", etc. That's good for another two teachers, so now you have eight teachers, where you originally needed only two.

So where does the "follow the money" thing come in. Simple, all these teachers pay dues to the NEA.

It's in the NEA's best interest to do anything and everything to increase the number of dues paying teachers as it fattens their coffers.

Notice how they are for class size reduction, an increase of nontraditional classes, educating illegal immigrants, and against school vouchers, against teacher competency testing, against private schools, against home schooling.

You want to fix education...get rid of the NEA.

Best Regards

Sergio