I remember about 20 years ago when there was the Math and Science teacher "shortage" in Texas. I applied for a teaching position and was turned down because I could not speak Spanish !!!
My wife is a high school teacher. Math and computers.
We live in a northern state, nowhere near the Mexican border -- but, we are an agricultural area.
What do you think of the idea of sticking non-english-speaking illegals in an "advanced computers" class?
Education is rapidly spiraling into an utter farce in large part due to the overwhelming influx of illegals.
The "powers that be" in the school system know full well these are illegals. They know they cannot understand a word of English. They know they won't "learn" a damned thing.
But, they get many dollars per head for each day they are parked in a classroom.
As far as I understand, there is no effort to teach them English either. The school knows that they're "here today, gone tomorrow" -- only to be replaced by the next bunch of "eager young minds."
Of course, the American kids in the class -- the ones who do want to learn -- are hampered by the presence of multiple "babysitting" cases (see my postscript below too), who soak up "teacher time", and, the occasional disruption of a "bilingual" student attempting to explain the classwork to an illiterate kid from Mexico who is being babysat.
I hold nothing against these kids. It's not their fault, and it's got to be unimaginably miserable... intimidating... to be sitting in a room full of people speaking a "foreign language", and being "expected" to "participate." But, the bottom line is that the finite resources putatively intended for American children are being diverted, and there is no way to "make it up to them."
Your taxbux@werk.
(I could also go on about them also sticking "special education" students into "advanced computers", Advanced Algebra, and so forth, but why bother. The system is broken, and it's not even pointed in the general direction of "getting fixed.")