Posted on 02/18/2005 2:40:30 PM PST by television is just wrong
U.S. National - AP AP Nebraska Fears Segregation in Schools
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By SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press Writer
LINCOLN, Neb. - 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.
Like many of Nebraska's school systems, the Lexington district where Eisenhauer is superintendent has seen an influx of Hispanics, largely because of jobs at the meatpacking plants, and an accompanying exodus of white students to public elementary schools just outside town.
And there is nothing Eisenhauer can do about it. Nebraska law allows students to switch schools without giving a reason.
"It bothers you when people come into your town and make comments like `You've got lots of Mexican kids,'" Eisenhauer said. "I feel distressed if they would opt out for that reason."
The situation in Lexington and elsewhere in Nebraska has caught the attention of the state Legislature, which is considering a bill to thwart what some say amounts to legal segregation in the schools.
The proposal would force the outlying elementary-only schools to merge with larger kindergarten-through-12th-grade districts. That could mean the closing of the smaller schools.
Beginning in the 1960s, white flight to the suburbs left many big-city school systems across the country predominantly black. But what is happening in Nebraska is a different phenomenon: The white families are staying put; they are just sending their kids to school outside town.
This is possible because Nebraska, unlike many other states and communities, does not require students to attend the schools in the district in which they live.
As a result, in Lexington, the in-town schools, with an enrollment of 2,500, have 804 students learning English as a second language, and 1,172 who are getting a free or reduced-price lunch. The six outlying elementary schools have about 130 students — none of them English learners, none of them living in poverty, according to the state Education Department.
The situation is similar in and around the small town of Schuyler, which also has seen an influx of Hispanics in recent years. There are 250 students there who are learning to speak English; none of them attend the outlying schools. Of 325 students living in poverty, all but 18 go to school in town.
At the same time, spending per student in the outlying schools is as much as twice as high as spending in the Schuyler grade schools. All public schools in Nebraska are primarily funded with local property taxes and state aid, which is based in part on enrollment.
Cecilia Huerta, director of the state's Mexican-American Commission, said other Nebraska communities with large numbers of Hispanics are likely to have the same situation.
"People in Lexington and Schuyler do not want their kids being polluted by Latin Americans and Hispanics," Huerta said. "They think they're not going to get the quality of education if they have a diverse classroom."
Many Hispanics are not aware of what is happening, but if they did "they would be up in arms," said state Sen. Ray Aguilar, the Legislature's only Hispanic.
Chris Dvorak, a white parent who has two children who attend a school outside Schuyler, said she sent her children there to avoid overcrowding in town, not to get away from Hispanics. "I would have done the same thing if they were all white kids," Dvorak said.
There are 45 students enrolled at Dvorak's children's school, compared with more than 850 at Schuyler Grade School.
State Sen. Chris Langemeier of Schuyler pointed out that anyone can attend the outlying schools. "It's not an elite group that gets to option," he said.
But Aguilar said Hispanic students do not go to the schools outside of town because in many Hispanic households, both parents work and do not have cars to take their children to class.
Rosa Valerio, a Hispanic mother whose children both attend school in Schuyler, said she never considered sending them to schools outside town because they are too far away.
Some senators are afraid the state will face legal challenges if the Legislature does not stop the trend toward separate white and Hispanic schools.
"It is unconscionable," said the bill's sponsor, Sen. Ron Raikes.
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I'm not sure. Those two are the usual sites I visit. Otherwise I am not sure.
American Patrol, and Steinreport are the usual sites I visit, I do know I have read for years of Mexican nationals that are bussed across the border to attend schools in Arizona, but this was the first time I have read that there was a school for specifically illegal aliens. I was shocked, because it goes against the grain of what schools are in this country. Then I found this article and posted it for information, and conversation, not to show that is how I feel about it. I don't like what I am being told I am doing here.
California is number 49 of the fifty states after 50% of the state budget goes to pay for the schools. That is SAD.
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I've been looking, now I cannot find it. Sorry, not being sarcastic. Just trying to cooperate. If I find it, I will post it. Ieven did a google to locate and I cannot. So may I should retract it. But no insults were meant. Just information being passed forward.
I sensed her discomfort and tried to tell her to just give me two quarters, but she hailed the manager for help.
While he tried to explain the transaction to her, she stood there and cried.
Why do I tell you this?
Please read more about the "history of teaching math":
Teaching Math In 1950
************************ A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100.
His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?
Teaching Math In 1960
************************ A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100.
His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?
Teaching Math In 1970
************************ A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100.
His cost of production is $80. Did he make a profit?
Teaching Math In 1980
*********************** A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100.
His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20.
Your assignment: Underline the number 20.
Teaching Math In 1990
************************ By cutting down beautiful forest trees, the logger makes $20. What do you think of this way of making a living?
Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the forest birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down the trees.
(There are no wrong answers)
Teaching Math In 2005
************************Un hachero vende un camion cargado con madero por $100.
La cuesta de producción es..........
NOW is the time for private and parochial schools to establish themselves and advertise heavily. You just KNOW the scumbag politicians are going to get into mischief like a barrel of monkeys. Lots of parents are going to be looking for new options once the scumbag politicians take away the options they have now.
bump!
That is why a lot of people have turned to home schooling. They join private groups and homeschool their own children. I know a lot of them. What a class spends a week on, the idea is put forth in an hour cause you are not teaching 35+ kids one idea and having to discipline one while someone else is doing whatever. More straight forward approach and the thing can be successful. However the parent needs to have a brain and this does not work for everyone.
That makes sense to me.
I have friends in West Omaha who are living this very scenario.
"People in Lexington and Schuyler do not want their kids being polluted by Latin Americans and Hispanics," Huerta said. "They think they're not going to get the quality of education if they have a diverse classroom."
Many Hispanics are not aware of what is happening, but if they did "they would be up in arms," said state Sen. Ray Aguilar, the Legislature's only Hispanic.
They would be "up in arms" if they knew? Arms about what? What if they wanted total control of the schools, etc. and the United States citizens who have been paying taxes all of their lives made a comment like that or took up "arms"? The FBI would be down their throats in a heartbeat for a potential or committed "hate crime". Ray Aguilar, your statement is idiotic and uncalled for. Has hecho un comentario que te hace parecer nopal. De tal palo, tal astilla cochinado.
Excellent post, but let me correct it for future reposts:
Un leñero vende un camión cargado con madera por $100. La cuesta de producción es ...
What's a Property professor?
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