Nebraska Fears Segregation in Schools

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050218/ap_on_re_us/nebraska_schools_hispanics_1 ^ | Fri, Feb 18, 2005 | Scott Bauer, Associated Press

[television is just wrong]

Integration. Failure?

[winodog]

What a nightmare.

[bahblahbah]

Well at least the Mexican children are learning English. I'll know this country has gone completely crazy when Spanish only schools are set up.

[Clavain]

oh boo who. waaaa! let's all just cry

[Brian328i]

I wouldn't be a bit suprised if there already are Spanish only schools.

[not_apathetic_anymore]

I'd hate to see small rural schools close. that's where I got my first few years of education. Each room having 2 grades, KK/1st, 2nd/3rd etc.

I had great individual attention and got a wonderful start on the process of lifelong learning.

I'm thinking it was as close to homeschooling as a public school can get.

[bahblahbah]

Actually I've looked it up before and I'm almost positive there are none that are public schools.

[television is just wrong]

Being done in Texas

[television is just wrong]

Spanish only schools, for illegal immigrants are being set up in the State of Texas.

[Phosgood]

I did not see "illegal" anywhere in this article.

Also, if the classes are overcrowded, what is he "Tired" of. Yhe numbers are what brings the money in, not the parents' heritage.

[floridavoter2]

If this is happening in Nebraska, its just a matter of time before it spreads everywhere.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I was a baby boomer...I was never in a class with less than 32 kids until I got to some specialized classes in high school...

[Teacher317]

Be aware. It will get worse.

Try this: My uber-liberal Property professor always enjoyed splicing in racial issues into the class. One day she was both celebrating the death of racial restrictive covenants (where one agrees to refuse to sell to a minority when moving into a neighborhood), and decrying the "white-flight" in so many areas that were integrating. I asked her why it was a good thing that blacks could finally exercise their freedom to live where they want, but not okay for whites to do the same by moving out of those same areas.

After her rant in response, I asked her if white-flight should be restricted by law... and she said yes.

The Left will never stop, even after they make Robert Mugabe look tame.

[television is just wrong]

They spoke spanish only schools. The schools in Texas are specifically for illegal alien children. That is why the reference. Read an article a while back. Not sure where will have to look for it.

[Cicero]

I doubt whether it's a question of race, as such. People want their kids to get a first-rate education, and if substantial numbers of other students in the classroom with them are less prepared or even less bright or can't speak the language well, it pulls the whole class down.

I don't know what you can do about this kind of problem. Regardless of the period, there have always been situations where some kids are born on the wrong side of the tracks. In the past kids would be streamed, or maybe some of them simply wouldn't go to school but would work on the farm starting at an early age.

It's impossible to have an excellent, demanding education that stretches kids to the limit and an education that treats all kids exactly alike, regardless of ability. In America you just have an obligation to give every kid a CHANCE to prove himself, or periodic chances to straighten themselves out and switch over to the faster track.

[not_apathetic_anymore]

I'm a boomer too, I just happened to live in rural Nebraska for the first 10 years of my life:)

Then I move to the "city" of 20K.

[television is just wrong]

People tend to gravitate to people of their own kind. It is just the way things are. That is why you have pockets of all varieties of people living all over the place. First generation of whatever background tend to gravitate to each other. Nothing new. The superintendent was embarassed by the presence of so many Mexicans. It is just the concentration of labor force in the town.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Dick Eisenhauer is tired of watching white families take their children out of the schools in his Nebraska district and enroll them in smaller, outlying ones where there are virtually no poor or Hispanic students.

I suggest that Eisenhauser go find a nice place to live in an Hispanic neighborhood. After he gets repeatedly robbed and beaten he can answer the question for himself why whites are leaving.

[jec41]

People want there kids to get a good education. Improve the quality of education and maintain the community culture and there will not be a problem. When you come to this country it is up to you to adapt to its culture and not expect it to adapt to you. A good school that offers enhanced education with a good rating will not have to worry about students weather they are poor, rich, white, black, green or yellow. People start pulling their kids from schools when the dumbing down starts.

[television is just wrong]

Unfortunately different cultures have different ways. Yes crime is higher in various multicultural areas.