[johniegrad]

What the heck is that picture of?

[Kuksool]

Ping!

[Mears]

I live on the East Coast.What the heck is going on in the Great American West?

Aztlan doesn't seem so far fetched anymore,does it?

[gubamyster]

ping

[Mears]

I live on the East Coast.What the heck is going on in the Great American West?

Aztlan doesn't seem so far fetched anymore,does it?

[Mears]

I live on the East Coast.What the heck is going on in the Great American West?

Aztlan doesn't seem so far fetched anymore,does it?

[zacyak]

How many of them are illegals? Maybe they're there doing the jobs Americans refuse to do. [/sarcasm]

[johniegrad]

When I saw the picture it reminded me of Bourbon Street on Halloween. Just what do the potato queens do with the Russetts out there anyway?

[jimt]

Why can't they tell the truth? "Hispanics" aren't a problem. Illegal aliens are a problem !!

[TheDon]

Gladys Esquibel, who heads the state Commission on Hispanic Affairs, says schools must change to address the needs of Hispanic students.

Exactly how do "Hispanic" students differ from the rest?

[BlessedByLiberty]

Sorry, Esquibel, but the Hispanics need to change, not the schools. As my great grandparents and all other minority groups who came to these shores to find a better life, they learned the English language and went to work, not to the local government offices with their hands out.

They wanted to contribute to the society as a whole, not make the society into the image of the oppresive, poor or starving homelands they left. As it is here in CA, all we hear about are the poor illegal Mexicans who are sneaking out of Mexico to seek a better life; yet we do not see them attempting to adapt to the society, but rather turn our state into the same horrific "Paradise that is Mexico" that they are supposedly fleeing. It just doesn't wash.

Politicians are not the ones walking into the local grocery or department store chain, and hearing Spanish spoken almost exclusively. I counted 18 employees at our local Target store yesterday, the majority young, speaking Spanish and unable to assist shoppers because they spoke no English!

Pandering politicians of all parties / affiliations seeing this demand that we adapt to any ethnic group not as a threat to national security but an assist to their own power grabbing ambitions, had better wake up.

This illegal Hispanic wave is not like other ethnic groups who allow themselves to be used and who will stay on the plantation for the libs / Dems / other politicians. This group is emboldened and demanding the pols give them what they promised (see Daivs, driver licenses, tuitions, education, etc.).

I just want to see the day that the illegals and the casinos move into Babs Boxer or Drear Davis' neighborhood as equals, not servants.

[SAMWolf]

Gee, I guess it's just too much to expect them to change to fit into OUR Country, like all the immigrants before them. </ sarcasm>

[sphinx]

Gladys Esquibel, who heads the state Commission on Hispanic Affairs, says schools must change to address the needs of Hispanic students.

Uhhhhh ... teach them English?

Yeah, that's it! I know that's what she's got in mind.

[joesnuffy]

They dont want to change to fit in...they want to take over...
this is an invasion....of the passive agressive type....
"Camp of the Saints" style

[Kuksool]

Considering that Idaho has a small population, it will be easy for the state to turn into a Hispanic-majority state in 10 years.

[new cruelty]

...schools must change to address the needs of Hispanic students

This should be interesting.

[TLI]

Gladys Esquibel, who heads the state Commission on Hispanic Affairs, says schools must change to address the needs of Hispanic students. The latest results from the state standards achievement tests show that more than half of Hispanic high school sophomores failed.

Half the mexicans are failing in their second year... I have friends in ID-hoe, it is NOT because the schools in Idaho are lacking in any way. If the mexicans are failing it is because the mexicans FAILED. No other reason and no change is necessary on the part of the schools.

[doodad]

The state commision on hispanic affairs? WTF???

[Myrddin]

Only 13 other states saw higher percentage growth in their Hispanic groups.

Notice the focus on percentage. If you have 10 hispanics and add 10 more, that is a 100% increase. I want to see the absolute numbers. The bad news in Idaho is that almost 1/3 of the population receives some kind of government assistance. I don't know how much of that figure covers "native americans" living on the reservations.

[carl in alaska]

((..Ping..))