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

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

[Bullish]

There's no figuring to be done. They've done the math.

We're being sold down the river by our own govt.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

This is one of the things I don't miss about Caleeforneea. Here in WV we have been getting quite a few Indian immigrants, but they all speak English, are educated, and actually contribute to the community. You folks out there have my deepest sympathies.

[Capriole]

You are blessed. I'm right now working hard and making plans to move back to America. I no longer want to be a citizen of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Maryland.

[WindOracle]

Some interesting stats I came upon a bit ago, from Violence and Discipline Problems in U.S. Public Schools- national Center for Education Statistics.

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Fifty-seven percent of public elementary and secondary school principals reported that one or more incidents of crime/violence that were reported to the police or other law enforcement officials had occurred in their school during the 1996-97 school year.

Ten percent of all public schools experienced one or more serious violent crimes (defined as murder, rape or other type of sexual battery, suicide, physical attack or fight with a weapon, or robbery) that were reported to police or other law enforcement officials during the 1996-97 school year.

Physical attacks or fights without a weapon led the list of reported crimes in public schools with about 190,000 such incidents reported for 1996-97 (Figure 1). About 116,000 incidents of theft or larceny were reported along with 98,000 incidents of vandalism. These less serious or nonviolent crimes were more common than serious violent crimes, with schools reporting about 4,000 incidents of rape or other type of sexual battery, 7,000 robberies, and 11,000 incidents of physical attacks or fights in which weapons were used.

While 43 percent of public schools reported no incidents of crime in 1996-97, 37 percent reported from one to five crimes and about 20 percent reported six crimes or more

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[WindOracle]

Stats a bit dated... but interesting nevertheless. I have seen little to give me reason to believe things have improved much in that area.

[Regulator]

305,000 LAUSD students were native Spanish speakers

Up from about 10 in 1970.

[Regulator]

"getting rid of all those fifty year old white guys."

Speaking as one of them, I can only smile at the thought of a company full of twenty-something non-whites trying to compete on the basis of their affirmative action status.

Won't be long before they have to sell the office furniture.

[Roccus]

So was I at that time. I also just smiled. That company was NYNEX. They did so well that they got bought out by Bell Atlantic. Now they are Verizon. Again, says it all.

[turnrightnow]

[I know they're not all children of illegals, but many of them are]

Actually, out here they really are.

[turnrightnow]

btw "Orientals" is a banned term these days. It's "Asian."

[turnrightnow]

Could it be as bad as the People's Republic of Mexifornia? The nanny-statism out here driving us crazy!!!

[turnrightnow]

Grew up in Santa Ana, CA. My neighborhood backed up to an apartment complex which became a haven for illegals, and this was back in the late 60's to early 70's. Confession of a naughty youngster: for fun we would hide behind the fence in my yard and yell, "IMMIGRATION!", and watch them scatter. It was just starting to get bad, but now it is impossible. Back then, most tried to learn English. Today we print everything in Spanish at taxpayer expense.

No English, No Opportunity. Know English, Know Opportunity.

[DH]

"Mrs. Brace said she has tried to start after-school enrichment programs in art and theater at Harding."

Ah, the arts! Maybe she should have been trying to start programs that had real meanings...such as manners, responsiblity, compliance to social standards, the importance of speaking English, etc...

[Jim Noble]

"I've met some very lovely people, but we have nothing in common. Every time my husband and I would go over for an event, my husband would feel like it was his first time. We haven't made any friends."

Emergency clue train stop: They are not coming to Southern California to make friends with you.

[Jim Noble]

Typical liberal. 90 deg. left of center in good times. 90 deg. right of center when it affects them personally

I cheered when Humphrey was chosen
My faith in the system restored
And I'm glad that the commies were thrown out
From the AFL-CIO board
And I love Puerto Ricans and Negroes
As long as they don't move next door
So love me, love me, love me I'm a liberal.

The people of old Mississippi
Should all hang their heads in shame
I can't understand how their minds work
What's the matter don't they watch Les Crane?
But if you ask me to bus my children
I hope the cops take down your name
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal...

Phil Ochs had it nailed, oh, so long ago now....

[albee]

"Hope is 73 percent white, 20 percent Latino"" White is an ethnicity? No, no it's not."

Politically correct hypocrites just can't bring themselves to use the term "Euro-American".

I've seen blond-blues eyed Hispanics and dark skinned Europeons. Confusing, eh?

[ladylib]

In the beginning of the last century, public schools made it their mission to drag newly arrived immigrants into the American culture and middle class. Well, they sure don't do that anymore.

[Caipirabob]

"Harding is 90 percent Latino, 6 percent white. Hope is 73 percent white, 20 percent Latino"

A little "dash" will do you...

(Hey, what happened to the other 7% of poor Hope?!?)

[ladylib]

My mother went to college with very wealthy blond, blue-eyed Puerto Rican women who looked down on one particular woman because she had dark skin and kinky hair (she later became head of a college). I guess the other ones went back home and married rich men.

These women were laughed at by the rest of the students because they didn't know how to use the washing machines at the school. Their maids always did their laundry at home.

[cgbg]

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.

The philosophy behind this "map" was developed by Herbert Marcuse. He argued that all knowledge was a function of race and class and that there were no absolute truths.

The sad part is someday one of these students may be sitting in a job interview and the interviewer may mention something about Alaska. If the Hispanic youth says "You mean Alaska island, right?" they have just closed the door on one possible opportunity.

That teacher and her principal and the school board are all unfit, imho.