Florida schools get ready for flood of border kids

Watchdog.org ^ | July 25, 2014 | Marianela Toledo

[Politico2isBack]

MIAMI — With more than 51,000 unaccompanied Central American children already here, and more expected to come, school officials ask the federal government for a helping hand.

Border kids costs more to educate, about $1,900 per head. Teachers must be bilingual. The students will need health care and psychological services because many arrive sick and traumatized by things they;ve seen and experienced on their journeys north.

Daisy Gonzalez-Diego, communications officer at the Miami-Dade County Public School, said up until now, the school district have relied on their emergency funds to help cover the costs.

“We are asking the federal government to help us with this additional cost,” she said. “We are here to help those children, we have a history of helping them, as we did when the earthquake hit Haiti, and when political problems arose in Cuba.

“We won’t stop providing them an education,” she said. “But we don’t want the (local) taxpayer to pay for it. That’s why we are asking for federal funds.”

She said that just before the end of school in June, her district saw about 300 border kids, coming from Honduras.

“We don’t know how many more are coming this upcoming school year because Central America children usually enroll just two or three weeks before the school year begins,” Gonzalez-Diego said.

While the Palm Beach County School District says they haven’t seen an uptick of border kids enrolling, they won’t be caught off guard for the 2014-15 school year, which begins in August.

“We are accustomed to receiving an influx of children based on different situations that happen around the world,” said Natalia Powers, communications manager for the Palm Beach County School District.

The 2010 Haiti earthquake caused an influx of Haitian students in their district.

“Our district and schools were ready to provide them with services, and what we cannot provide we work out with community partnerships,” she said.

Powers said Palm Beach County schools are not asking for additional funds right now, but they won’t know what to expect until they get closer to the beginning of the school year.

The Guatemalan Mayan Center, a Lake Worth, Fla.-based community organization that offers assistance and language classes to immigrants, has seen an uptick in the number of immigrants seeking help.

“Last year, we had three students. This yea,r we’ve got 50,” said volunteer Micaela Martí.

She said the children are 5 and 7 who come to the center to learn English because they arrived too late for the school year.

School officials in Hillsborough County, which has a large Hispanic population, did not respond to a request for information.

In Pasco County, shelters expect to double their capacity.

Tampa NBC affiliate WFLA reported the Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services is asking Pasco County’s Planning Commission to double shelter capacity to 32 beds to accommodate more border children. But neighbors of the center have mixed reactions.

Florida Watchdog contacted Americans for Immigrant Justice, a facility that houses border-crossing children, but they declined a request for an interview or to provide any information about the children.

In Brevard County, the Children’s Home Society of Florida confirmed to Breitbart News that some unaccompanied minors crossing the southern border of the U.S. will be sent to local foster homes in the state next month.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Gotta get rid of those America flags and pictures of Washington and Lincoln. Don’t want the little kiddies traumatized any worse than they already are. They all are suffering from PTSD already. And for Pete’s sake! Hide those American History books!!!! Geeesh!

[CGASMIA68]

who is Ya’ll

[CGASMIA68]

Who is Glen and I have no delema

[Joe Boucher]

for the most part many Floriduh schools are little more than battle zones already.
This should help.

[GOPJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ

Immigration by the Numbers — Off the Charts

[grania]

You do realize that schools do provide interpreters for students with disabilities and those who don't speak English?

The Teacher's Unions will be all in for this for the extra jobs and extra money. What are the odds the HOR will refuse to fund what it will cost to educate these "threatened children" with a myriad of needs?

[Lurker]

This is madness.

[Liz]

Medical staff warned: Keep your mouths shut about illegal immigrants diseases or face arrest

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/07/02/medical-staff-warned-keep-quiet-about-illegal-immigrants-or-face-arrest/

Border Patrol agents told to SHUT UP about contagion!

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/382218/border-patrol-tells-agent-you-must-cease- and-desist-speaking-media-ryan-lovelace

===============================================

WE AINT SEEN NUTTIN' YET

Observing the "migrants" riding atop speeding freight trains 1700 miles---one can only conjecture on their hygiene. How did they handle body wastes? No running water or flush toilets atop that train.

==============================================

Americans need to know about possible infections from migrants shopping in retail stores, eating in their restaurants, shopping in supermakets...... handling food and merchandise.

The deadly E-coli is passed through unclean hands from improper bathroom habits.

E- coli has been found on the handles of supermarket carts.

Not to mention contamination on school buses, school facilities, school supplies, books......and public buses that transported them....and so on. Mexican restaurants, fast food hamburger joints, supermarkets, retail stores, etc.....

The e-coli contamination could get fierce.

[Liz]

HORRENDOUS RAMIFICATIONS OF BORDER INVASION KICK IN

NRO reports adult illegals posing as "unaccompanied alien children" are attempting to enroll at Massachusetts public high schools. Some of them had gray hair, said they were 17 years old, and claim to have have no documentation.

Gray haired men enrolling in schools?

Looks like drug lords from across the border are infiltrating public schools---planning to set up lifelong lucrative businesses ......giving kids free samples to get them addicted is part of building up the business plan.

The graying men posing as teens could also be sex traffickers ---lining up nubile kid for their johns..... and the young 'uns for pedophiles who pay big bucks to get ahold of the little darlings.

Tolerant and compassionate libbers whining about the "humanitarian crisis" are OK with that (/snix).

==============================================

Town fathers are also in for a financial shock when their carefully drawn budgets are looted by the "little children"....."children" ("reunited w/ their familes") with no other aspirations than to ride the lucrative US gravy train.

[Travis McGee]