Posted on 07/16/2015 6:00:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Los Angeles Times headline was cheerful: "It's Official: Latinos Now Outnumber Whites in California." The Times said, "As of July 1, 2014, about 14.99 million Latinos live in California, edging out the 14.92 million whites in the state."
Is this good news or bad news?
The L.A. Times seems to think the former. The article cites the chief demographer for the state finance department who asserts, "A young Latino workforce helps the economy by backfilling retiring baby boomers." Really?
Education professors Patricia Gandara of UCLA and Frances Contreras of University of Washington wrote the 2009 book "The Latino Education Crisis: The Consequences of Failed Social Policies." Heather Mac Donald, a contributing editor of City Journal, reviewed the book. She wrote: "Hispanics are underachieving academically at an alarming rate, the authors report. Though second- and third-generation Hispanics make some progress over their first-generation parents, that progress starts from an extremely low base and stalls out at high school completion. High school drop-out rates -- around 50 percent -- remain steady across generations. Latinos' grades and test scores are at the bottom of the bell curve. The very low share of college degrees earned by Latinos has not changed for more than two decades. Currently only one in 10 Latinos has a college degree."
Before the book came out, co-author Gandara wrote an article for the National Education Association, where she said: "The most urgent problem for the American education system has a Latino face. Latinos are the largest and most rapidly growing ethnic minority in the country, but, academically, they are lagging dangerously far behind their non-Hispanic peers. For example, upon entering kindergarten 42 percent of Latino children are found in the lowest quartile of performance on reading readiness compared to just 18 percent of white children. By fourth grade, 16 percent of Latino students are proficient in reading according to the 2005 NAEP, compared to 41 percent of white students. A similar pattern is notable at the eighth grade, where only 15 percent of Latinos are proficient in reading compared to 39 percent of whites.
"With respect to college completion, only 11 percent of Latinos 25 to 29 years of age had a BA or higher compared to 34 percent of whites. Perhaps most distressing, however, is the fact that no progress has been made in the percentage of Latinos gaining college degrees over a 20-year period, while other groups have seen significant increases in degree completion."
The New York Times, in 2006, wrote an editorial called "Young Latinas and a Cry for Help": "About one-quarter of Latina teens drop out, a figure surpassed only by Hispanic young men, one-third of whom do not complete high school. Latinas, especially those in recently arrived families, often live in poverty and without health insurance.
"Another piece of the puzzle is how to address the complication of very early, usually unmarried motherhood. Religious beliefs in Hispanic families often limit sex education and rule out abortion. Federal statistics show that about 24 percent of Latinas are mothers by the age of 20 -- three times the rate of non-Hispanic white teens. ... One in four women in the United States will be Hispanic by the middle of the century. The time to help is now."
Dr. Anna Sanchez performs deliveries at a hospital in Orange, California, where the mothers are often Hispanic teenagers. She says: "(The) teens' parents view having babies outside of marriage as normal, too. A lot of the grandmothers are single as well; they never married, or they had successive partners. So the mom sends the message to her daughter that it's OK to have children out of wedlock. ... The girls aren't marrying the guys, so they are married to the state."
Married to the state?
City Journal's Mac Donald, in a 2006 article called "Hispanic Family Values? Runaway Illegitimacy is Creating a New U.S. Underclass," writes: "Hispanics now dominate the federal Women, Infants, And Children free food program; Hispanic enrollment grew over 25 percent from 1996 to 2002, while black enrollment dropped 12 percent and white enrollment dropped 6.5 percent. Illegal immigrants can get WIC and other welfare programs for their American-born children."
"The Latino Education Crisis" authors Gandara and Contreras fear a "permanent underclass." They write, "With no evidence of an imminent turnaround in the rate at which Latino students are either graduating from high school or obtaining college degrees, it appears that both a regional and national catastrophe are at hand."
City Journal's Mac Donald quotes Anita Berry, a case manager who works at Casa Teresa, a California program for homeless single mothers. Berry says: "There's nothing shameful about having multiple children that you can't care for, and to be pregnant again, because then you can blame the system. ... The problems are deeper and wider. Now you're getting the second generation of foster care and group home residents. The dysfunction is multigenerational."
Whether this can be turned around remains to be seen. But it certainly casts doubt on the Times' blissful assertion that "a young Latino workforce (will help) the economy."
This is what happens when you import an ignorant class.
Bringing this country down has been job one at the white hut since 2009.
Given the trajectory of this problem, we will be finished soon
if not already.
Let me guess? With millions and millions of our tax dollars we might have a chance, right?
California is lost. Nothing can save it except a reckoning and NO ONE has the political will to start one.
This problem (illegal hispanics) started long before Odumbass. Bush 2 WANTED something very much like this in 2000.
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CASE IN POINT A primetime network news segment focused on an "impoverished" latino mother who paid big bucks to get her/ son coached to take the College Boards---but he was so stupid, he still couldn't pass them. So the C/B decided to "change" them so that Pedro could pass using subversive Third World hate-filled US history.
THIRD WORLD INFILTRATION College Board exams changed history answers... revisionist historians developed different answers to the question of what America’s story is about. From their perspective, at the heart of our country’s history—like the history of any other powerful nation—lies the pursuit of empire, of dominion over others. At its core, say the revisionists, America’s history is about our capacity for self-delusion, our endless attempts to justify raw power grabs with pretty fairy-tales about democracy. ....
NOTE WELL: This terrifying Third World revisionism is straight out of Third World textbooks---emphasizing the T/W effort to undermine US ntl security for the coming armed takeover.
The conniving T/W uses an ancient formula going back to Greco-Roman times---where savages, barbarians and thieves overrun a bountiful country lusting after its power and riches.
REFERENCE Some 10 years back, Texas schools started used Mexican textbooks for their backward illiterate Spanish-speaking students. Textbooks advocated the Mexican perspective including:
<><> anti-white, anti-capitalist anti-USA viewpoints;
<><> Mexican textbooks falsified US history,
<><> proselytized blood-thirsty La Raza savagery;
<><> using teaching as brainwashing;
<><> inculcating violent separatist, latino supremacy ideology.
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Subversive Texas Textbooks---distributed nationwide--- vilify conservative groups
Breitbart Texas | 09/10/2014 | Merrill Hope / FR Posted by Rusty0604
In 2006, uber-liberal "Texas Rising" stated its mission: "developing an emerging generation of social justice-minded, informed and engaged leaders is essential to the long-term health of our communities and the development of progressive public policy in Texas."
...a sneak peak at the preliminary Social Studies textbook findings TTT has found including distortions, omissions and half- truths all passing for accurate high school history..."The radical right consists of groups that sometimes gather under the flag of militant anticommunism."
"Often known as reactionaries, they denounce most forms of government regulation, including progressive taxation and restrictions and industry. Strangely enough, these radicals would not hesitate to use the government's police power to enforce the changes they desire. Examples of political groups on the radical right are the John Birch Society, the National States & Rights party, The Christian Crusade, and the Tea Party movement." (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Facts don’t matter to liberals. Being wrong just causes them to double down on their ideology.
Recently we shared a breakfast table with another couple. The
guy was from Az. I asked him if he has seen many escapees from Ca filtering into his community. He said many. His cohort from Florida, an MD no less, said, is there something going on in Ca? He avoided conflict with her, they were friends, but it was obvious he was uneasy to answer. She was oblivious, from South Florida, so probably a dem and Hitlery supporter. Ignorance of what is going on by many in the voting class killed this nation.
Yes, good ole Georgie. I recall he did not lift a finger to support those two border guards who were in a shooting conflict with some illegal border crosser and drug dealer. I lost all respect for him there. He compounded my distain when he let Libby twist in the wind.
We need another Bush in the White Hut as much as a moose needs a hat rack.
So what, they work cheap and vote Dim and that’s what the Uniparty wants.
Why is this a "problem for the American education system"?
What else would you expect?
Education is not something that is done to you, like penicillin for strep. It's something that students do themselves (with guidance, of course), to the natural limits of their interest and aptitude.
One look at Mexico, or Guatemala, or El Salvador, and you would predict that their citizens would lag substantially behind Euro-Americans, whatever the "system" does or does not do.
If you ignore an infection because the symptoms are moderate for a while, you may find yourself in big trouble when you get blood poisoning. I see a political analogy--the country is being infected--super-infected, in the sense that there are many different types of invasions simultaneously. It's going to be awful hard to put Humpty back together again.
“This is what happens when you import an ignorant class.”
WRONG!!
This is what happens when you NURTURE an ignorant class. The flood of European immigrants of the latter 1800s and early 1900s came to America to become AMERICANS.
Their culture was brought with them. Their traditions came with them. Their religion came with them. Cities, large and small had sections where the language was foreign as was the signs in businesses. Yet the “country” said to them, “YOU WILL BECOME AMERICANS.”
The children, Italian, German, Russian, Polish, Swedish and a melange of people from everywhere did indeed, in a generation become AMERICANS. They retained their history,foods, customs and religions but they retained them as AMERICANS.
The children in school were educated in ENGLISH, the language of the land. They were taught the history of the United States and taught to love the land. The children of lands that had been at war off and on for a thousand years got together and these immigrant boys and girls raised generations of AMERICANS. These newly minted AMERICANS went to and fought and won two world wars, and aided in building the greatest in history.
So, how are today’s youngsters “educated”? Teach them in a language other than the national tongue. Teach them to scorn the United Stats, its history, its traditions, its religions, and its very existence. The “education class” has become the most dangerous enemy of this country.
Rome went down, injured from within and the world entered the Dark Ages. History does indeed seem to repeat itself, doesn’t it? Whether you are “offended” or not, I don’t care, but GOD HELP THIS COUNTRY.
Look at CA’s K thru 12 student stats and you’ll see a snapshot of CA’s future.
They come here for love...love of the US dollar and state support.
Let me see if get this straight: Hispanics rule out abortion due to religious beliefs, yet they have no problem with premarital sex? Am I missing something here?
Can we stop with the talk that Hispanics (like blacks) are conservative in social values? They seem to care more about getting their 30 pieces of silver (welfare handouts) than following God.
Also, why hasn't California collapsed yet? I keep hearing all this talk about the state's economic troubles. Where is the collapse?
“This is what happens when you import an ignorant class. / Bringing this country down has been job one at the white hut since 2009.”
Heck, it has been the Democrat Party goal at least since they revised the immigration laws in the mid-60s! Instead of wanting the best and brightest, we deliberately try to get the bottom of the barrel - and that is LEGAL immigration.
All degreed hispanics I work with came legally to the US or they have lived in the US for many generations.
I never thought about it till I read this article.
1 person even came to the US 3 years ago under an H1B but their college degree is from Mexico.
The language gap certainly contributes to low educational attainment.
The border has been a sieve since for as long as I have been alive (the '50s).
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