Posted on 04/24/2002 6:16:47 AM PDT by boris
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Passing the high school equivalency test is seen by Project Avanzando's graduates as their passport out of poverty.
Gustavo Toxqui's hands have welded metal, picked grapes, clutched oranges, hauled concrete blocks, wielded paintbrushes, gripped mops, hurled newspapers--and, just recently, grasped a GED certificate.
His hands carry the marks of an immigrant journey that began nearly 12 years ago in Puebla, Mexico. The General Educational Development certificate carries the hopes of what he and his wife, Susana, want to make of their lives in the United States.
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--Boris
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How like the Times to publish a 1,259-word article about a program to give free education to illegal immigrants without once using the word 'illegal'. Evidently the term "illegal" is Politically Incorrect at the Los Angeles Times. We've now moved from "undocumented" to "migrant". So now it is impermissible to use "undocumented", which could be viewed as a pejorative.
No, the new term is "migrant", which nicely obscures the fact that the taxpayers of California are being forced to pay for the education of people who have broken the law.
It is a commonplace that people who will not use plain language are seeking to mislead. What is the Los Angeles Times' excuse?
--Boris
More freebies for you and I to pay for. In my next life I am coming back as an illegal alien so that I don't have to pay for what I get. I will just let you and the government support me.
More fluff and hype from the media - that's all this is!!
May it spin its way entirely down the toilet bowl of obscurity. The sooner the better.
This is the reason why California schools are at the bottom of the barrel now. And why the state budget is $22 million dollars in the red, and has only 75% of the revenues to cover its budget.
The Tijuanization of California.
That's with a "B". Out of a $104 Billion budget.
Beyond shocking.
Further on, we learn that the couple prepared for the GED by reading “the works of Martin Luther King Jr., George Washington, Miguel de Cervantes and Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz.”
"The classes and the test were in Spanish because the exam is meant to test the students' general knowledge in math and other subjects, not their English per se, Jasis said."
So language skills are not included in this “specialized” GED, although they are included for English-speaking citizens, I presume.
"If we tried to teach them in English, it would take them about four years," he said of the preparatory courses. "They would get frustrated. At least after they earn a GED, they have an accomplishment, and they are more motivated to study English."
Exactly what "motivation" do they have? Even if/when they take the citizenship test (for which, or course, they are definitely prepared, having read Miguel de Cervantes and Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz), it’s administered in Spanish. Most live in barrios where English is not spoken, and they work among their countrymen, or at jobs where language is not important. This propaganda is insulting to the intelligence.
The whole thing is just victimology from a failed culture and country, who have convinced themselves that their failure is due to our success, and that we "owe" them for it.
The coming months are going to be hilarious. The party's over. With a $22 Billion deficit, the axe is gonna swing hard. When the RAT chief (Senor Davis) starts babbling about tax increases to make up the difference, the screaming will run him out of office. Of course, that assumes that the candidate from the Stupid Party has a clue about how to leverage the issue.
Wilson left the budget, not merely balanced, but with a surplus.
All the campuses have relocatable classrooms installed to accommodate the increased numbers of children from the same neighborhoods.
We were told that, as a result of NAFTA, lower skilled jobs would leave the country, to be replaced with higher skilled jobs for the next generation of workers. But if American children are receiving a poorer level of education, due to the attempt to educate greater numbers with deficit language skills, how does that translate into a superior education for OUR children?
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