DIVERSITY IN THE CLASSROOM (A Liberal sees the light!)

Santa Barbara News - Press ^ | 2/24/05 | Camilla Cohee

[LauraleeBraswell]

""Hope is 73 percent white, 20 percent Latino""

White is an ethnicity? No, no it's not.

[JennysCool]

Using "See's" on an education thread is probably not the best idea.

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I've been here 14 years now, and all of a sudden we turned around and all the white parents had gone," she said, speaking in Spanish. "They don't want their children side by side with our children. (Mrs. Brace) shouldn't leave. She should stay and keep fighting."

Fighting for what? A third rate education?

[WindOracle]

Lol, good point, but ya can blame that on my being tired or having a public school education. Take your pick.

[Texas_Jarhead]

""I've been here 14 years now, and all of a sudden we turned around and all the white parents had gone," she said, speaking in Spanish."

A perfect example of modern assimilation.

[ladyjane]

"I've been here 14 years now, and all of a sudden we turned around and all the white parents had gone," she said, speaking in Spanish.

Well you won't really miss them. After all they never bothered to learn spanish.

[Kidan]

Its funny how she stands up for what she believes until all of a sudden it's affecting her.

This is typical liberalism. She is all for convincing (if not outright forcing) others to do something, but forbid she suffer through it herself.

[WindOracle]

Isn't it a bit funny how the Latinos apparently do not want their own kids surrounded by Latinos, and prefer having a higher percentage of the kids around their own be white? White people want their kids in school with white kids. Latinos want their kids in school with white kids. Damn, we are awful popular for being the source of all the worlds ills.

Is there something wrong with being in a school that happens to be all Latino students? Do they consider those kids to be a bad influence or what? Sounds like some of them are racist against their own people.

[radiohead]

I've been here 14 years now, and all of a sudden we turned around and all the white parents had gone," she said, speaking in Spanish.

Why should the woman stay and fight a system where people can be in this country for 14 years and continue to speak Spanish as if they are still in their homeland? No wonder the Braces didn't feel they could make friends or have your typical AMERICAN school experience for their children.

I'm black and I would have moved my child from this school. It isn't a race issue. You have to grab onto your own American culture where you can. You have to make opportunities for your kids to experience their culture and to have normal school experiences and not subjugate every damn thing that made this country great to the lowest common denominator of people who have no intention of assimilating into the culture.

It looks like this woman put up the good fight for a number of years and just decided her children's education wasn't worth sacrificing on the altar of multiculturalism. Good for her.

[WindOracle]

It is funny how many liberals are anti-gun.. until they get mugged. Think public schools are great.. until it is THEIR kid who cannot read. Think taxes are great.. so long as other people are paying them.

[Duke Nukum]

Fighting for what? A third rate education?

Well, pretty much the average public school education is third rate, so that would probably be a big affirmative. Sounds like this school they're fleeing doesn't even rate.

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It is funny how many liberals are anti-gun.. until they get mugged. Think public schools are great.. until it is THEIR kid who cannot read.

After seeing who this woman's relatives are, it's amazing that her kid is in public school at all.

[Born Conservative]

[winner3000]

I totally agree with you.

[Regulator]

Folks, if you aren't from California, you can't put this in context. This is not just one isolated school. The percentage of children in the LA Unified School District breaks down like this: 72% hispanic, 9% white, 10% black, 9% asian and other. Read that again: 72% hispanic - in a school district with hundreds of thousands of children. In 1970, and for the previous 100 years, those numbers were reversed. Actually, more like 90% white, 10% black up until the early 1980s.

This article is about Santa Barbara - the only reason that there is an essentially all white school to flee to is that Santa Barbara is one of the most expensive towns on the planet - thus only a few of the schools are as impacted as the one described here (and someone else can explain how anyone without a six figure income can live here, but I think I can guess).

That is what has happened in California. The FROBLs here will say, "what of it?" - but what the poor, deluded liberal star of the article has to say speaks volumes: her children are essentially aliens in their own country. Outnumbered by people ethnically, linguistically, and culturally different. Not to mention usually hostile as well. Would anyone with a shred of interest in their children leave them in such a situation?

When did the people of California vote to have this happen to them?

[TBP]

You too can experience liberal diversity.

Simply go to a store and get printer paper of several different colors.

Now mix the colorrs in your printer -- some of this, some of that, some of the other.

Now print a document , making numerous copies.

Thre you have liberal diversity. They all say the same thing, but after all, they're different colors, aren'tthey?

And that's what liberals mean by diversity.

[Darkwolf377]

"It isn't a race issue. You have to grab onto your own American culture where you can."

Exactly. There is no "American culture" that covers the land. You don't instantly have a cultural connection to someone whose skin color happens to match your own. It is shared experiences that create a connection, and from there the culture is whatever accumulates.

Going to a school because everyone is white or Latino or black is POINTLESS, even to make a statement of some kind (much like the poor and blue collar South Bostonians and Roxbury residents--as opposed to the libs who could afford to send their kids to private schools so they didn't have to take part in the bussing experiment they advocated--were FORCED to "make a statement" about integration. It's not that integration doesn't work, it's that people, KIDS, don't like being forced out of their community to make a political statement. How can we crow about "building communities" and then deny kids the right to go to LOCAL schools, where they make connections with the kids in their communities, and thus their parents connect, etc.

You pick a place to live, and you create your corner of American culture. Basing that culture on skin color is moronic, unless one thinks skin can talk.

[seastay]

My child attended public grammar school in California. A few of the years she was placed in classes where the majority did not speak English. I had to go to the administrators and demand she not be placed in a bilingual class because we don’t speak Spanish.

There was a map painted on the playground of the 50 US states, with Alaska by itself as well as Hawaii, which would have been OK, but they also included Mexico and Cuba, but not Canada. When I complained to the school, that the map was geographically incorrect since it left off Canada, it did not represent north America and it left the kids to think that Alaska was an island, the principal told me it was because so many kids from the school come from Latin America, and that they needed to present a map for them.

Then there were the winter and Christmas festivals that replaced the Christian Easter and Christmas holidays. We celebrated the traditional holidays in public school as kids growing up in California. But times have changed, this public school was banned from mentioning anything Christian, even though had no problem teaching the kids abut the spiritually of the native American Indians and the paganism of Indian land worship in the kids assignments.

One year the teacher covered posters on the wall during standardized test week, but it was see through paper, and had some of the answers for the students to see . Even still the schools students scored poor on these tests 70 percent of the nation did better, with all the illegals that was no surprise.

When I had enough, I tried to transfer to a better district, the principal said they didn't care if we left; they got more money per student from illegal than US citizens anyhow, and they welcome her to leave to make room for these more important students (paraphrased) .

Since then we have been in private school, well worth the money, and the proper teaching of geography, religion, English that goes with it. Glad were are out, at least now my daughter doesn't have to write to the governor to lobby for illegal immigrant drivers licence , like I heard one mom still left in the public school complain that her 3rd grader was given that assignment recently!