Yeah, I am certainly familiar with that feeling. I found it quite satisfying myself to realize that you really aren't interested in finding any real solutions to this complicated problem. You are just looking to froth people up a little bit, garner a little sympathy by showing the posters here how even your family has been so negatively impacted by those hated little brown babies.
Are all your passtimes so...fluffy?
I am doing no such thing, DG. Please, stop posting untruths and stick to the facts.
You know, if pre-k programs were granted money for English-speaking-only children to learn Spanish, the ACLU and LULAC and every liberal organization would be pounding on the doors of state education leaders, crying foul. *Especially* if the pre-k seats were giving preference to ESO children, limiting seats for SSO children. Imagine if the ESO children were given most of those seats.
Regardless of how you or I or anyone else feels about public education and placing children in preschool, the fact remains that no additional seats nor teachers are coming on board to make this its own special pilot program. Therein lies the problem as I see it.
My opinion stands firm...and you can yell all you want about English not being mandated by law as the official language of our country, however, it is law in many states. The legal people of this country are fed up with catering to lawbreaking immigrants and their American anchor children.
I am sorry that these children have been given parents who have chosen to make themselves illegal aliens. I am sorry that Mexico couldn't care less about its people. I am also sorry for all the poor people in Somalia, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Uganda, Rwanda, Nigeria, Guatemala, and everywhere else in the world. I would love to help them all, but I can't. And the United States can't either.
Perhaps this pilot program should teach these children how to stand in a line appropriately. Then they can take that back into their homes and teach their parents one of the basic values we teach our children in the United States. Line up. Stand quietly. No pushing, shoving or cutting in line. Wait patiently for your turn.
And in case you haven't noticed, there are still poor people who are American citizens living in these United States. Over 37 million of our legal citizens are living at or below the poverty level. What audacity for foreigners to break into America, and demand attention, healthcare, schooling and amnesty while so many Americans live in poverty. I don't want to hear about the "rights" of illegals. It has been shoved at Americans for too long now, and there isn't any room left. Illegals should feel lucky that we are providing free transportation back to their homelands. Illegals are feeling none of the burden; Americans are. We're paying for it, and the time has come to end this.
The President mentioned last night that we are a nation of laws. The United States is great at making them, yessiree! And it's high-time we darn-well start enforcing the ones we already have .