Posted on 09/11/2010 5:28:11 AM PDT by IbJensen
Federal investigators say the state is violating the 1964 Civil Rights Act by shortchanging thousands of students whose first language is not English.
Unless changes are made, the violations could lead to a loss of federal funding for state education.
The Arizona Republic reports one complaint alleges the Arizona Department of Education has reclassified "many thousands" of children as proficient in English even though tests indicate they aren't.
The second complaint says federal departments found the state eliminated two questions from its home-language survey in 2009.
The result was that students who are eligible for English-language services "are not being served because they are not being identified."
The remaining 48 states can not sit idly by like a gaggle of cowards while the Central Socialist Government continues to make a whipping boy out of the Great State of Arizona!
The Obama regime will just keep it up with worthless niggling, phony complaints hoping to wear down the people in this valiant state.
Arizona should be our rallying cry: NEVER AGAIN!
This egotistical, anti-America group need to be tarred, feathered and dumped into the Potomac.
Arizona is this century’s Alamo. Where is Sam Houston and the Americans to finish the job?
If I were AZ I’d say “Fine. Take your funding and leave. And here’s all your regulations into the bargain.”
Is AZ courageous enough to do this? We know that education need not cost anything like it does and that a good chunk of the excess cost is directly due to Federal unfunded mandates. I’d say AZ would save a bundle if they could heave all the goods and people required to comply with Federal regulations and still be able to educate their children. They’d probably be better off all around.
Question is: Do they see this and are they willing to force the Feds to be the ones who blink first?
There's no probably about it.
For starters, ESL is dumb. If the spanish-speaking (or any other) residents are here legally, the folks should be learning English at home. Back in the 1920s and 30s, that's what my mom's family had to do growing up. Now, we're just empowering the parents to not acclimate to US society and laws.
There's no doubt that they'd save money without the feds. For starters, scrap pre-school and full day kindergarten. No more breakfasts served; if the families really need food assistance, then they pay for lunch with food stamps. Kick out troublemakers. No more silliness like one full time teacher for some students with disabilities. The list is endless. And you know what? I'd bet parents would be fighting to get their kids in 1950s-style schools without all of the BS.
Grrr....
I call BS on the Feds stance. My stepson arrived from China a year and a half ago. He spoke little English when he got off the plane. One full year in English only classes and he is nearly fluent in English and speaks mostly without an accent. His grades are in the upper half and climbing rapidly. He should be in the top 10% in 2 years.
The reason for his quick proficiency is because he is young and language is easy to learn when you are young and secondly, he was only taught in English. He was given an opportunity to test in Chinese but refused on his own. For him, it was English only.
Hey, Washington DC libtards. You are not protecting our borders so we will not be sending you any money. We can take care of our schools without your bribe money.
In the mean time, lets get a copy of the tax code and federal regulations and have a bon fire. (A big bonfire, that tax code is huge.)
Unfortunately, the federal government is far more insidious than that. You can’t have 40% of your income stolen from you every year and survive long before you have no money at all left. You may say to yourself, “Well, I make $50K. I could live on $30K for my freedom.” The problem is that the government has made so many others dependent on your money. You’re not getting much of that $20K back into your pocket at all, so of course you’re not going to miss it. But what about the guy who makes $20K,including lots of government aid. Now he only makes $10K. Oh, he’ll miss it. So now you’ll have $20K still taken out of your pocket by the feds... and another $15K taken out by the state.
Think you can live on $15K? Well, if everyone around you who makes $50K and used to be taking home $30K after taxes is only taking home $15K, how long do you think you’ll still make $50K?
Feds Say Arizona Violates Rights of Everyone Else, and Always Has. It’s almost as much Arizona’s fault as it it Bush’s.
America needs an American President. We need one that approaches the job with no baggage and no mystery connected to his past life.
Furthermore, America deserves elected representation that has their constituents at hear rather than their own agendas.
The Central Socialist Government is phony and deserves to be rejected!
The Federal Department of Eddoctrination is a joke. I wish every state would say stick your money where the sun don’t shine and take your regulations with you. There is no “neighborhood school” concept in place when the first word of the offending agency is “Federal”.
See tagline.
If I made as much as $50K that would be one thing, but, after a lifetime of service in my field, I can only muster about $40K, counting both jobs. Maybe I’m not competent enough or too difficult to get along with. Who knows? But I do know that the reach of government far exceeds anything we could reasonably extrapolate from the Constitution and has done for my entire life. It’s just gotten that much worse now.
The problem isn’t that people don’t know all of this, it is that most are not willing to step up to combat it. Those in power will not give up without a fight and are ready to eliminate those who presume to confront them. That is a price many people will not risk having to pay, so the number who actually are willing bear a terrible cost for the benefit of those who agree it’s terrible but won’t stand up for what they say they believe.
Most even know that, given the current trajectory, the US is on a course of implosion and that everything they have is at risk, including the lives of their families and STILL they won’t rise to fight.
The only consolation is that Nov 2nd is coming soon. If people will take that much risk and vote the rascals out, then we have a chance of recovery. Not that we must recover but that we won’t recover if enough of the current PTB remain in control. A thin reed? I believe it is, but it is still standing there and we must restrain ourselves to rely on it until it either grows into a field of sturdy principles and precepts, or is rudely and roughly pulled up by the roots and burned by the PTB. If the former, then all may be well.
If the latter, then the die is cast.
Pray for peace but prepare for war.
It is my understanding that about seven percent of state and local education budgets is provided by the federal government. Why put up with Washington BS for seven percent? Surely the school systems would not only survive without the federal government, but would become more efficient and productive.
Since I've been in more than my share of the above mentioned Turd World crapholes that won't be happening.
“...the Arizona Department of Education has reclassified “many thousands” of children as proficient in English even though tests indicate they aren’t.”
Oh please - this happens all the time, and not necessarily for ELL students. That’s why we’re all paying so much for remedial education at the college level.
The 1964 ‘civil rights’ act. The day America died.
It’s really amazing how no legal immigrants to the USA were ever able to learn English, until that law was passed in 1964!
Mark
More like Remember Arizona, the same as Remember the Alamo!!!
Fed Lawsuit against Sheriff Arpaio. Check.
Fed Lawsuit against Maricopa Community College. Check.
Fed Lawsuit against Arizona Dept of Education. Check.
Have I missed any?
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