"Please, please..don't leave me all alone in Boulder!"
Posted on 12/19/2005 7:06:26 AM PST by Millee
In the 70's it is known as "there is a social problem that needs to be addressed, and the middle class is going to do something about it". Concept cost the Democrats alot of seats in Congress.
I had forgotten that line! LOL!
No, it's not. This is an elementary school.
"My feeling is the problem is racism," Garcia says. "I think people are leaving Columbine because they don't like to be with brown kids. I know I'm going to get killed because I said that, but I'm going to call it as I see it."
Racism is just human nature at work. Everybody wants to be with people like themselves. People like to live and socialize with other people of the same religion, race, history, and common morality. They used to call it nationalism.
Trying to force people into socially engineered situations that are contrary to their desires is a good way to start a fight. If not on the playground then in court. But it’s a lot less work to just move the kids to another school in Colorado so that’s what’s going on. If the option to move the kids to another school goes away then I would expect that people will move to another school district and settle the problem that way. If it gets real bad people may move to another part of the country.
"..they were simply choosing options that were better for their children,"
That's simply PC for "Its getting kinda dark around here".
repeat after me, massive illegal immigration has no affect on America aside from doing the jobs that Americans won't do
The dead stinking rat in the punch bowl that nobody even mentions in the article is tne number of latino kids who are ILLEGAL ALIENS or the children of same, who should not be here anyway!
Who wants their American kid (of any ethnic background) in a classroom full of kids who barely speak English, and cause the class to move at a pace which is years back?
Who wants their American kid in a 9th grade class which is teaching "See Jane run?"
I think they have.
Over half of the cheerleaders at my daughters school will not graduate this year because they are pregnant. All Mexican. Thanks King Jorge.
Scary to think of how this has spread across this country.
My wife had an old classmate friend and her husband that moved to Colorado from CA about 12 years ago. She got a letter from her about a year or so ago. They moved back to CA. She told my wife it made little sense leaving their home town, with great weather to avoid illegals when they had the same thing in CO, but with very cold weather. I have a co-worker friend in Georgia. Same thing.
"I used to live near and work in Boulder. I find this article fascinating only because I thought that just about everyone in Boulder was middle-class at worst........."
Since the mid 70's anyway.
Wrong, wrong, and wrong again. Phillips apparently does not understand the essence of liberalism, which is to demand that other people be coerced into actions that are damaging to them, "for their own good", while exempting themselves from the burdens that they impose on others. So, in that respect, Boulder absolutely looks 100% liberal.
It was no different in the Soviet Union that liberals championed for so many years - collective housing in ugly Stalin-inspired apartment buildings for the masses, but dachas in the countryside for the elite. Of course it's for the benefit of the masses, don't you know...
I worked there from 98 to 2000. I miss Colorado, but not Boulder. I couldn't handle the elitist hypocrisy.
Forced bussing, yeah that's the answer. After all, it worked so well in other places.
But they will try, as pointed out in the article about the options they are considering. Almost all liberal programs eventually have to eliminate choice and impose force to put them into effect. That seems to always include increased costs for transportation, security, etc., but the programs still go down hill. Their solution - more money.
They use the enrollment in the school lunch program as a bench mark but they try to get all students to enroll, even the wealthy ones, because so many other government programs are pegged to it. The more people on the lunch program the more money they get for everything else. I rmember my kids having to bring home a form requesting it and begging me not to sign it. I didn't.
The students eventually become just a burden and a bother to the bureaucracy. To them the process is what counts.
I seriously doubt if any of the parents care about skin color other than as an indicator of the probable cultural aspects that are identified with certain groups. The bilingual thing by itself slows down the process for everyone. Remember the educator, or administrator, in California who wanted to make Ebonics a second language? That would have been a hoot and it would have established bad English as a language and an acceptable style. They had to wait for rap music to get that done. :-)
No wonder the libs are constantly having to tweak their loony ideas.
The first ammendment guarantees our right of free assembly, which includes the right to not assemble at all. If I choose not to associate with spanish speaking people then who has the god given right to force me to? No one.
I think the liberals need to stop whining when people do what people will naturally do (like reject liberalisms such as 'diversity')
no problem with "'brown children".
problem with their problems inflicted on my kids in the schools,and all the hisssspandering.
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