Board of Education nominee's offbeat ideas spark uproar

The Kansas City Star ^ | Posted on Wed, Sep. 11, 2002 | DIANE CARROLL

[2banana]

"it is not a question that is asked"

This sounds almost Orwellian!

[mywholebodyisaweapon]

Thank you for this post! Public education is not economically viable, and its death-throes as we belatedly approach equilibrium are not pretty to watch. The fact that school district superintendents can get away with making political endorsements (or, more accurately, slanderous comments about candidates) from their offices, using taxpayer time and money to do so, speaks for itself.

God bless Connie Morris!

[Texas_Jarhead]

"The worst crime committed in this case is that of the illegal parent whose own choices have jeopardized their precious children. It is not the Kansas taxpayers' burden to bear this responsibility."

AMEN SISTER! Hang in there.

[Kermit]

"Morris, who beat board Chairman Sonny Rundell in the August primary and faces no Democrat in November, maintains that children of undocumented immigrants should be barred from public schools. That view is contrary to federal law, and it infuriates Hispanic groups, which have started a petition drive against her."

Morris should simply refer to Mexican Law, where foriegners, legal foreigners have to pay for free public education. "Undocumented Immigrants" is the PC way of saying illegal aliens. These people are violating the law. If providing a free education for lawbreakers is Federal Law, then they can pay for it.

[Texas_Jarhead]

Yesterday there was an article in the Houston Chronicle which actually referred to illegals as "law abiding undocumented immigrants". I thought how could anyone write that with a striaght face.

[Lil'freeper]

I like her spunk!

She needs a new vocabulary, though. Too many warm, fuzzy emotions are attached to the term "illegal immigrant" or "undocumented alien" and people will be overwhelmed with compassion and miss her point. She should start calling them 'non-detained felons' or 'unrestricted criminals' and push the focus to the fact that illegal immigrants are law breakers and have no claim on our treasury.

[dd5339]

Now that I've read this I'm going to have to vote for Connie in November.

The blame lies with the illegal parents for making the choices that they did. If they want they're children to have the benefits that America offers, then they need to become citizens and start paying FREAKING taxes. Until then, if they FEEL discrimintated against, WAAAHHH!

Semper Fi!

[cheme]

Where I live in Texas I am required to show a proof of residence in the school district. The term residence has a legal definition that implies you are a legal resident of the US. I think it would be possible to sue the district for allowing illegal residents to go to the school since they are not legal residents of the district.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"undetained felons", that's the ticket. I will start using that phrase. It is a felony isn't it?

[Riverman94610]

If I am not mistaken,the original Supreme Court decision was Gonzalez vs.Texas back in 1984 when the court ruled that illegals DO have the right to attend public schools.
Not saying that was a GOOD decision but it IS the law.Correct me if that is a wrong interpretation

[oldtimer]

This country has gone nuts: The illegals come and get free apartments, free medical food stamps, etc, it is all because of the rats who ran the White House and Congress for so many years wanting to gain more power while turning them into rat voters.

[carpio]

bttt

[j271]

"We cannot afford to continue to be held hostage to this kind of loose and unpatriotic expenditure of the American dollar."

the American...taxpayer

Looks like Ms. Morris did not frame the debate properly. In a battle of dollars versus children, will anyone choose dollars?

On the other hand, if Ms. Morris had talked about "lawful American children" and how their educations and futures were being jeopardized because funds were being stolen away to pay for illegals, well, then she might have a shot.

IMO of course.

[RAT Patrol]

and start paying FREAKING taxes. Oddly, I think they do pay taxes.

[Lancey Howard]

"I realize this is going to be an uphill battle, but the Hispanic children are very dear to my heart," said Rundell of Syracuse, a moderate Republican. "

"...a moderate Republican." = A scumbag Democrat who became a "Republican" in order to win an election.

See it all the time here in Bucks County, PA.

"To deny education to children based on their heritage or the language they speak is illegal and immoral."

See how he can lie just like the scumbag Democrat he is?
"Heritage" and "language" are not the issues. Being in this country illegally is the issue. What a scumbag.
GO CONNIE !!!

[jonefab]

Ping

[Dan De Quille]

"I realize this is going to be an uphill battle, but the Hispanic children are very dear to my heart," said Rundell of Syracuse, a moderate Republican. "To deny education to children based on their heritage or the language they speak is illegal and immoral."

So, Rundell is incapable of discriminating between Hispanic citizens and illegal aliens who are Hispanic. To him, therefore, being Hispanic is an over-riding consideration; it trumps the law. Is this not a kind of racism?

Nobody is wanting to deny anybody education based on "heritage", unless "illegality" is an heritage. Is Rundall serious about claiming that criminality is an Hispanic heritage?

This guy is an embodyment of what's wrong with the Republican Party.

[Free State Four]

and start paying FREAKING taxes.

Oddly, I think they do pay taxes.

You are correct. They pay Federal, state, local, sales and FICA taxes. They pay rent, which includes property taxes. This means that, while they may be here illegally, their children are not freeloaders in the public school system. And the feed lots and slaughter houses of western Kansas would collapse without their labor. Perhaps Ms. Morris would like to work for a week in a slaughter house to prove how lazy and what freeloaders these people are. fsf

[sparkydragon]

As I understand it, illegals take a lot of jobs that poorer people here refuse to take as "below them." Because they believe being on welfare is preferable to working in those slaughter houses, and somehow, more noble. And, since many of them are using forged Social Security cards to get their jobs, I'd say they were probably paying taxes.

sparky