Posted on 01/09/2007 9:06:29 PM PST by Nachum
Imagine sending your kids off to school, but when they get to the bus they are told they can't get on because they speak English.
That's right, English.
It happened to a few children in St. Paul and now the school district is apologizing.
Rachel Armstrong sent her kids to pick up the bus as usual Monday, but after the driver let the kids on, he told them he would not pick them up again. He even said he wouldn't take them home that afternoon.
Armstrong left work early Tuesday, forced to pick up her kids from Phalen Lake Elementary School.
Her twin girls, 10, and her son, 8, were kicked off their regular school bus. They were told by the bus driver the route is for non-English speaking students only.
"I was furious. I was at work and I was just mad." Armstrong said. "I felt like we were being discriminated because we speak English. Just because they speak English, they can't ride the school bus. I mean, this is America, right?"
Administrators at St. Paul Public Schools admit the district made a mistake when it stranded the kids at school Monday.
However, the district points out, that particular bus route serves one of three language academies. The one at Phalen Lake is for Hmong students learning English.
The academies all have separate bus routes to keep its students together.
The district decided to enforce the separate routes beginning Monday, but it did not tell the Armstrong family.
"It is our responsibility to ensure the safety of these kids and we made a mistake. The kids should have gotten home that day," Dayna Kennedy, public relations representative.
The district also discovered the Armstrongs no longer live in the Phalen Lake School boundary because they moved last year.
So even thought the district apologized, if they want to still go to Phalen, they are going to have to get their own ride.
I am not going to attack anyone specifically because they have missed something in this article (which is exactly what was intended by the way it was written, imho).
Instead, consider this, from the article:
that particular bus route serves one of three language academies. The one at Phalen Lake is for Hmong students learning English.
Now consider this:
The bus serves kids who are trying to LEARN English. Since these kids already knew English, they were on the wrong bus!
The driver handled it badly, the school district screwed up, yes. But, they were trying to get the non English speaking kids to a school where they could learn English.
That's a very good point, I never would have thought of that. The parents are very aware and intelligent, helping their kids assimilate using that method.
This is absolutely disgusting. Absurd. Insane.
And when you call companies to do business you are asked to press a number in order to hear English! English should be automatically default...and other languages should not be offered.
If you want to have a serious conversation do not talk down to me, Honey.
'This is where "multiculturalism" is headed, off the deep end. Politics is like a circle, once you go so far left you start going in this extreme direction.
Wait till we have the "no white" drinking fountains, we're headed back towards segregration, and it will be at primarily the hands of the left, just like it was the first time.'
~~
IMHO, multi-culturalism is primarily led by womyn. Take a look at the make-up of your typical grade school. If there is a male in the administration, it's probably one or two, but the top few posts are womyn.
The vast majority of teachers are womyn.
Take a look at the texts, the lessons, the projects; males are left out - womyn rule, figuratively and literally.
Yes, the multiculti crowd will indeed steer us all toward the deep end.
You bet the school district made a mistake! What if their mom couldn't have gotten off work to pick them up after school?
Just imagine the outcry if this had been a Hmong kid on an english-speaking-only bus.
Hey, I'm just a "right wing nut-job", lol. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black...
"Pig-Latin always works for me...;0)"
Don't use that when addressing Rosie O'Donuts, her native language is Pig-Latin.
Can't get a date, huh?
Rosie Boo-Koo Dinkey Dau!!! Numba`Ten Tao' !! Boo-Koo too much Sop-Sop!!...
Saint Paul: Either Greek, Aramaic, or Hebrew. Maybe some Latin; bit of Egyptian...some Syriac?
I've had the impression for a while now that the Hmong don't seem to be doing as well as the Vietnamese. ?
I thought they spoke Norwegian up there.
http://www.parentsunitednetwork.org/Language_center_causing_a_stir.html
There are about five elementary schools in this area that have opened these "language centers". They are located at the elementary schools, but are a separate classroom or onsite area, apparently. Sorry not to "mail you", but everyone needs to know this info. Tax dollars at work and all that.
That's okay, Houston renamed all of the streets downtown with Vietnamese names in addition to the English names. Must make responding to emergencies and mail delivery "wonderful".
The driver refused to drop off elementary school children back at the point where he/she picked them up? Couldn't that be considered endangerment leaving them there like that?
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