Posted on 05/16/2010 8:56:30 AM PDT by TigerBait
AUSTIN — If you want to see how profoundly the state's population is changing, look at the faces of the children in Texas public school classrooms.
In all but rural areas, Hispanic enrollment is rapidly surpassing that of whites. Hispanic schoolchildren make up nearly 49 percent of Texas' 4.8 million pre-K through 12th-grade students, according to the Texas Education Agency. About one-third of students are white. Demographers have long projected dramatic population changes for Texas, and the state's leaders have acknowledged the economic, social and political impact they will have — but hardly ever in the present tense. Now, they must confront the realization that the state is not adequately funding the education of a growing population that is generally poorer and less proficient in English.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7007046.html
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Peak - Peek
Note that the actual title manages not to spell "peek" incorrectly.
Immigration, Political Realignment, and the Demise of Republican Political Prospects
"In Texas, for example, the estimate shows that for every one percentage-point increase in the immigrant population in a county, the Republican vote share dropped by 0.67 percentage points, which is more than the decline nationally association with immigration. The decline does not seem to be associated with the local Republican Party’s position on illegal immigration."
"What is quite remarkable is that even when we consider Texas alone we find that, as the immigrant population has grown across its 254 counties, the Republican vote share has declined from where it stood 30 years ago. Estimates for California and Texas appear in Table 4. For Texas, the estimate shows that for every 1 percent increase in the immigrant presence in a county, the Republican vote share dropped by 0.67 percentage points, which is considerably higher than the impact nationally. A one standard deviation (σ=6.07) increase in the percentage of immigrants taking up residence in Texas counties, translates into a four percentage-point drop in Republican Party prospects, controlling for income and the percentage of black residents. Contrary to conventional wisdom, immigration is precisely why the GOP has lost so much ground in the most heavily Latino areas of South Texas, as well as in the larger urban counties."
My Sister-in-law just retired from teaching in the Dallas area and has moved away from Texas. She said the illegals have swamped the schools. They have no desire to learn and make sure no one else in the class learns by constantly disrupting everything.
She asked one of them, “What would happen to you if you disrupted the classes in Mexico?” The student said “We would get beat up!”
She passe some Hispanic teachers talking loud in English and what they said was..”WE are taking TEXAS back, one baby at a time!”
Remedial classes about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo need to be started.
Amazingly predictable is the charge that Texas isn’t spending enough on schools. What crap
How many know that kids can take their classes in spanish, take the state tests in spanish through 3rd grade and if they are not proficient in English after that they are excused from taking the TAKS except for math. ( and Texas scores in math are sadly at the bottom)
PLUS if they are struggling they get help from a “ 3 member committee” to learn English. all at the expense of Texas taxpayers.
Many school districts hire teachers from Mexico while laying off American teachers due to budget cuts.
It is totally out of whack.
Maybe they really meant “pique,” which is what I would feel if I learned my children were being taught “ethnic studies” in school, instead of something useful like mariachi guitar or ballet folklorico.
White kids left public schools long ago in Texas. They go to private schools.
Uneducated masses are far easier to control and enslave.
Kinda ike Mexico, no educated middle class
Illiterate Peons and educated jefes. (or jefe políticos)
Look, SEE and learn.
Borders...Language...Culture.....If not ours then whose?
Demographers have long projected
-——traumatic ———
population changes for Texas
I live in Central Texas and work with students, their teachers and parents on a daily basis. Some of these mothers (I don’t know where the fathers are) are illiterate in Spanish, let alone English. They can’t even sign their name - must mark with an “X.”
It’s not just Texas.
Example...just one school in Southern Oregon.
White Mountain Middle School
% Hispanic 43%
% Eligible for Free Lunch 55%
% Eligible for Reduced Lunch 14%
% Migrant Students Enrolled 12%
http://www.publicschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/120519
If all these “immigrants”, legal or otherwise, will assimilate as past immigrants did, then America as we know it will survive.
America is and can survive if we are “mulit-ethnic”. America as we know it will not survive if we insist on being “multi-cultural” and don’t see assimilation.
There is a difference between being multi-ethnic and multi-cultural, in my opinion.
From the top down, there doesn’t seem to be insistence that assimilation happen. The president himself said that we should make sure our kids learn Spanish. This reflects an assumption that masses of Spanish speakers in our midst just won’t learn English.
And this whole business with Arizona’s law, etc., the MSM insists that it is racist and an “anti-immigrant” law. The nuanced thinkers at MSNBC fail to see the distinction between our very generous legal immigration system and masses of people sneaking across the border.
I wonder if Rachel Maddow would have a different opinion if an illegal alien was hired for a fraction of her paycheck to do her job.
yeah - remember when Dallas ISD was “assigning” social security numbers to teachers from Mexico so that they could get them into the classroom quickly? I don’t think anyone lost their job over that either.
Tell ya what...
That traitor was exactly correct.
Immigration is not a force of nature. Our government has explicitly encouraged, provided and allowed for this to happen.
But at least we aren’t ‘racist’!/s
We may be destroyed but we aren’t racist.
White people don’t give a damn anymore what happens in the future. They flat out do not. It’s a combination of denial and willfull ignorance and outright lack of interest if Texas is turned into New New Mexico and destroyed.
Bet the rent.
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